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Wedding nearly always is a happy occasion and a time to have a good time the fun of existence. Friends and family of the married couple collect collectively and have fun with the newly-weds a begin in their new existence. And of direction every one of the visitors des…

Gone are the days while etiquette and manners had been confined to merely announcing 'thank you' while someone does you a favor or apologizing by using pronouncing 'Sorry' while you harm someone and being polite with anyone. Apart from this basic social…

there is perhaps none amongst us who hasn't hit the "send" button simply as our eye stuck the name of an unintended recipient-with extreme implications, or a huge spelling mistake-with dubious connotations. career control includes a lesson in e mail etiqu…

Here is a little article on political correctness that is sure to spark some lively conversation in interpersonal and intercultural communication classes. https://www.amny.com/opinion/columnists/mike-vogel/a-new-low-for-political-correctness-outrage-1.21777884

This is a word copy of an article that was published in Etc: A Review of General Semantics 73, October 2016, pp. 314-320.  (The journal is a bit behind and this was actually published October 2018.) T he purpose of the article was not to propose new theories but just t…

After reading the varied posts, I’m convinced we (as an academic discipline) don’t have any evidence for the claims that a live audience is either effective or necessary in online public speaking courses.  Although instructors noted how they handled this issue of a li…

The following post was sent to the basic course list (Basiccc@lists.udayton.edu) in response to a number of instructors explaining how they incorporated the live audience in an online public speaking course. But, I thought others might be interested in the issue. It…