Review Forum: What's the Use of a Textbook in the Basic Communication Performance Course?.

Hess, John; Russ, Susan; McLish, Glen; Yook, Esther (Eunkyong) Lee; Worley, David W.; Olsen, Richard; Bollinger, David; Slagell, Amy R.; Cole, Robert A.

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ERIC Number: EJ592845

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Review Forum: What's the Use of a Textbook in the Basic Communication Performance Course?

Hess, John; Russ, Susan; McLish, Glen; Yook, Esther (Eunkyong) Lee; Worley, David W.; Olsen, Richard; Bollinger, David; Slagell, Amy R.; Cole, Robert A.

Communication Education, v48 n4 p317-30 Oct 1999

Presents seven brief essays regarding the role of the textbook in basic communication courses. Addresses the proper function of a textbook, how instructors weave a textbook into their course, how students should be reading their textbooks, how students and instructors define the textbook's role, and what textbook features optimize and hinder the use in basic communication classes. (SC)

Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Course Organization, Higher Education, Introductory Courses, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Textbook Evaluation

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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