Communication Apprehension Website Links

| Recommended Overviews of Speech Anxiety | Communication Assessment Tools | Online Articles
| ESL Materials | General Cultural Communication Items |
| Public Speaking Materials | Relaxation Ideas |
| Movie Ideas | PowerPoint Presentations |

General Overviews and Resources

Online Speech Anxiety Workbook!

• http://www.clc.cc.il.us/home/cou052/SPEECHweb.html

Brief Tips Pages

• http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/hart/333t/speech.html and Practicing Tips:
• http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/hart/333t/preptips.html

Publisher's Resources

• Links Suggested by Allen and Bacon:

• http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/har/les1.htm (relaxation)
• http://www.mtsu.edu/~jpurcell/Taichi/taichi.htm (Tai Chi)

• Links Suggested by McGraw Hill:

• :McGraw Hill's Resources
• http://www.school-for-champions.com/speaking/fear.htm
  • Public Speaking Resources: http://www.school-for-champions.com/speaking/resources.htm
• What Can I Do to Combat Anxiety?

• Links Suggested by WadsWorth:

• Crossing a Bridge of Shyness: Public Speaking for Communicators: (coping with Speech Anxiety) http://www.eeicommunications.com/eye/shyness.html
• Tips about all aspects of pulling off a successful presentation! http://www.presentingsolutions.com/effectivepresentations.html

• Links Suggested by Houghton Mifflin Company:

• http://college.hmco.com/communication/resources/instructors/public/fear.html#chap01

PRCA - The Leading Assessment Tool for Speech Anxiety

• Background Information on the PRCA The Personal Report of Communication Apprehension: http://www.hamline.edu/depts/commdept/prca-2.html
  
  
• Perhaps the best quick site for assessment online. This is a nice variety of credible assessments including the PRCA collected and posted by Wallace V. Schmidt, Department of Communication Rollins College at http://www.newsorlando.com/assessments.htm
  

• Take the PRCA-24, but you will not be able to have it processed here http://wwww.hamline.edu/cgi-bin/quiz/depts/commdept/prca-24.txt

Other Communication Assessment Tools

• Online Anxiety Assesment: http://www.med.nyu.edu/Psych/screens/anx.html
  
  
• The Talkaholic Scale! http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/158.htm
  
  
• Reliability and Validity of the Willingness to Communicate Scale James C. McCroskey http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/156.htm
  
  
• Jaffe Connection Website that includes some self-assessments in the Activities Section in chapter 2 (it is automated and can send the student's score to you whether you use this text or not). http://communication.wadsworth.com/jaffe/jaffeconnect/

Online Speech Anxiety Articles

• http://www.base.com/shy/
  
  
• "How to Relax for Your Talk"
  By Patricia Fripp CSP, CPAE http://www.public-speaking.org/public-speaking-relax-article.htm
  
  
• "Stage Fright Strategies"
  http://www.public-speaking.org/public-speaking-stagefright-article.htm
  
  
• "Marjorie Brody's Tips for Managing the Symptoms of Stage Fright" http://www.presentations.com/deliver/speak/1998/09/20_f1_sca_02.html
  
  
• "No More Nightmares: How to Defy Murphy's Law (almost) Every Time"
  By Mark Merritt http://www.presentations.com/deliver/speak/2001/04/30_f2_nigh.html
  
  
• "Try These 8 Power Points for Presenting more Confidently" by Darlene Price and John Messerschmitt http://www.presentations.com/deliver/speak/1999/08/31_sn_try.html
  
  
• "If Disaster Strikes On-stage, Stay Focused and be Creative"
  By Jim Endicott: http://www.presentations.com/deliver/speak/1999/06/12_ct_if.html
  
  
• "Secrets from the Pros: 5 Master Presenters Share their Top Techniques"
  By Dave Zielinsk:i http://www.presentations.com/deliver/speak/1998/06/21_f1_sec.html
  
  
• "Scared Speechless: Understanding and Conquering Stage Fright" http://www.presentations.com/deliver/speak/1998/09/20_f1_sca_01.html
  
  
• The Critical Moments Just Before You Speak: Conquering the Jitters Overcoming Your Fears of Public Speaking
  By Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE: http://www.fripp.com/art.critical.htm

Resources for Instructors

WOW - Assessment and Rating scales for a wide variety of communication areas:

• The Speech Communication Teacher: http://aitkenj.www7.50megs.com/sct/sct.html
  
  
• The first chapter of Overcoming Your Fear of Public Speaking
  By Michael T. Motley University of California, Davis: http://college.hmco.com/communication/resources/instructors/public/fear.html#chap01
  
  
• The National Communication Association's Communication Teacher Resources Online:
  http://www.natcom.org/ctronline/index.htm or http://www.natcom.org/ctronline/tocsct.htm
  
  
• The Impact of Communication Apprehension on College Student Retention and Success
  By James C. McCroskey, Steven Booth-Butterfield, and Steven K. Payne: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/145.htm
  
  
• Communication Apprehension: The Quiet Student in Your Classroom. Published by the ERIC Digest.
  By Hilary Taylor Holbrook: http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed284315.html
  
  
• Willingness to Communicate: A Cognitive View
  By James C. McCroskey Virginia P. Richmond Communication Studies, West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/150.htm
  
  
• Willingness to Communicate: A Potential Confounding Variable in Communication Research
  By Walter R. Zakahi and James C. McCroskey: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/149.htm
  
  
• Measuring Trait Communication Apprehension: A Test of Rival Measurement Models of the PRCA-24
  By Timothy R. Levine and James C. McCroskey: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/147.htm
  
  
• The WTC Scale as a Predictor of Classroom Participation
  By Betty Chan and James C. McCroskey: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/138.htm
  
  
• The Relationships of Self-Disclosure and Disclosiveness to High and Low Communication Apprehension
  By Lawrence R. Wheeless, Kathryn Nesser and James C. McCroskey: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/137.htm
  
  
• The Impact of Communication Apprehension on Student Retention and Success: A Preliminary Report
  By James C. McCroskey and Steven K. Payne: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/131.htm
  
  
• The Content Validity of the PRCA-24 as a Measure of Communication Apprehension Across Communication Contents
  By James C. McCroskey, Michael J. Beatty, Patricia Kearney and Timothy G. Plax: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/127.htm
  
  
• Reducing Communication Apprehension: Is There a Better Way?
  By Bruce A. Berger and James C. McCroskey: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/117.htm
  
  
• How to Make a Good Thing Worse: A Comparison of Approaches to Helping Students Overcome Communication Apprehension J
  By James C. McCroskey, Virginia P. Richmond, Bruce A. Berger, and R. John Baldwin: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/111.htm
  
  
• The Communication Apprehension Perspective
  By James C. McCroskey: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/110.htm
  
  
• Understanding (and Conquering) Communication Apprehension
  By H. John Baldwin, Virginia P. Richmond, James C. McCroskey, and Bruce A. Berger: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/108.htm
  
  
• The original work! Measures of Communication-Bound Anxiety
  By James C. McCroskey: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/41.htm
  
  
• More Original Work! The Effects of Systematic Desensitization on Speech Anxiety
  By James C. McCroskey, David C. Ralph, and James E. Barrick: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/43.htm
  
  
• Coping with Fears and Stress (ERIC Digest)
  By Edward Robinson and Joseph Rotter: http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed341888.html
  
  
• Working with Shy or Withdrawn Students (ERIC Digest)
  By Jere Brophy: http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed402070.html
  
  
• Communication Apprehension and Self-Perceived Communication Competence of At-Risk Students
  By James W. Chesebro, James C. McCroskey, Deborah F. Atwater, Rene M. Bahrenfuss, Gordon Cawelti, James L. Gaudino, and Helene Hodges: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/155.htm
  
  
• Reducing Communication Barriers Communication Apprehension (CA)
  http://www.marietta.edu/~halej/apprehension.html
  
  
• A Dissertation on this Topic:
  http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-5950172439741131/unrestricted/etd2.pdf
  
  
• How Americans Communicate:
  http://www.natcom.org/research/Roper/how_americans_communicate.htm
  
  

• Brief Tips Sheets for Students:
  http://usfweb.usf.edu/counsel/self-hlp/speech.htm and http://mauicc.hawaii.edu/staff/stjohn/publicspeakers/anxiety.html

Information on The Biology of Stress and Anxiety

• http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~weisbard/perstress.html
  
  
• http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~weisbard/endocrine2.html
  
  
• http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~weisbard/endocrine2.html

Consider the Issues of our ESL Students
(items in red are highly reccomended readings)

• The ESL Teaching Guide for Public Speaking
  By Kathryn Wylie Marques and John Jay: http://college.hmco.com/communication/resources/instructors/speech/esl.html
  
  
• The Development of Intercultural and Interethnic Communication Apprehension Scales
  By James W. Neuliep and James C. McCroskey: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/169.htm
  
  
• Willingness to Communicate: Differing Cultural Perspectives
  By James C. McCroskey: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/152.htm
  
  
• Willingness to Communicate, Communication Apprehension, Introversion, and Self-Reported Communication Competence: Finnish and American Comparisons
  By Aino Sallinen-Kuparinen and James C. McCroskey: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/154.htm
  
  
• Willingness to Communicate: A Cross Cultural Investigation
  By Robert A. Barraclough, Diane M. Christophel and James C. McCroskey: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/142.htm
  
  
• Correlates of Quietness: Swedish and American Perspectives
  By James C. McCroskey, Nancy F. Burroughs, Ake Daun, and Virginia P. Richmond: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/148.htm
  
  
• Communication Apprehension Among Japanese Students in Navive and Second Language
  By James C. McCroskey, William B. Gudykunst: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/126.htm
  
  
• Don't Speak to me in English: Communication Apprehension in Puerto Rico.
  By James C. McCroskey, Joan M. Fayer, and Virginia P. Richmond: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/125.htm
  
  
• Nonverbal Immediacy and Cognitive Learning: A Cross Cultural Investigation
  By James C. McCroskey, Aino Sallinen, Joan M. Fayer, Virginia P. Richmond, and Robert A. Barraclough: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/164.htm
  
  
• A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Communication Apprehension: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study of U.S., Hong Kong, and Taiwanese Students on An International University Campus
  By Chad Compton: http://www.byuh.edu/courses/comm110/reserves/Chinese.htm
  
  
• Ava Zinn's Journal Project for a Seminar in American Culture:
  http://www.cl.uh.edu/itc/course/LITR/4333/5733zinn.htm
  
  
• Humanistic Imagination: Soul Food for the Language Class
  By Gertrude Moskowitz: http://www.njcu.edu/CILL/vol2/moskowitz.html
  
  
• An Introduction to Theoretical and Practical Curriculum Issues in Integrating the World Wide Web in ESL Programs for Adult Learners
  By Kristen Gatehouse: http://www.cyberus.ca/~kristen/integrate.html
  
  
• Multi-User Domain Object Oriented (MOO) as a High School Procedure for Foreign Language Acquisition
  By James A. Backer: http://www.etni.org.il/teachers/jimmy/chapter2.htm
  
  
• How Language used in Software Programs Affects Bilingual Individual's Learning Attitudes in a Second Language Environment
  By Tassos Theodoridis: http://www.metro-polis.net/homepage/pilot.htm
  
  
• Communication Apprehension and Self- Perceived Communication Competence of Academically Gifted Students
  By Lawrence B. Rosenfeld, Charles H. Grant III., and James C. McCroskey: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/161.htm
  
  
• Teaching Reading in a Foreign Language (ERIC Digest)
  http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed305829.html
  
  
• . Enhancing the Communication Skills of Newly-Arrived Asian American Students
  By Lilly Li-Rong Cheng: http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed420726.html
  
  
• Multicultural Assessment
  By William E. Sedlacek and Sue H. Kim: http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed391112.html
  
  
• Learning Styles
  By Charles S. Claxton, Charles and Partricia H. Murrell: http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed301143.html

More on Cultural Communication

• Studying Intercultral Communication: Initial Resources and Directions: http://www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/dept/com/resources/intercultural/Thesis.html
  This master thesis determined the most useful concepts, theories, training tools, degree programs, books, journals, exercises, and multimedia tools in the field of intercultural communication as indicated by experienced interculturalists and made referenc e material based on these responses available by means of a website prototype. The study focused on formal education in intercultural communication for career preparation as opposed to sojourner preparation
  
  
• An Incredible Website devoted to Intercultural Communication!
  http://interculturalrelations.com/
  
  
• A Simulation Activity:
  http://interculturalrelations.com/v1i2Spring1998/sp98rogers2.htm
  
  
• Video Suggestions:
  http://interculturalrelations.com/v1i2Spring1998/sp98wilmot.htm
  (questions to go with these suggestions: http://interculturalrelations.com/v1i2Spring1998/sp98wilmot.htm)
  
  
• Gender Related Sites:
  http://www.uark.edu/~aca/studies/gender.html
  
  
• An Online Tutorial with course materials/suggestions:
  http://www.bena.com/ewinters/OnlineTutorial.html
  
  
• Links to more Materials concerning Cultural Communciation: http://www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/dept/com/resources/intercultural/Websites.html

Communication Across the Curriculum Links

• At First Site: Lessons from Furman University’s Center for Collaborative Learning and Communication http://aw.colostate.edu/articles/inman2001/
  
  
• Integrating Written, Oral, Visual and Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum: A Guide for Faculty and Graduate Teaching Assistants.
  By Southern Illinois University: http://www.siu.edu/departments/cac/guide/
  
  
• Resources for Teaching Oral Presentation Skills in First-Year Writing Courses
  http://athena.english.vt.edu/%7E1styear/op/index.html
  
  
• Academic Writing Forum: Connecting WAC and ESL
  http://aw.colostate.edu/forums/fall2001/
  
  
• Using Informal Writing and Speaking to Enhance Learning: Fifteen Strategies
  http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/cwsp/informal15.html
  
  
• A Collection of Writing Across The Curriculum Resources:
  http://aw.colostate.edu/books/mcleod_soven/
  
  
• An Online Book: Writing Across the Curriculum: A Guide to Developing Programs edited by Susan H. McLeod and Margot Soven: http://athena.english.vt.edu/%7E1styear/op/index.html
  
  

• A Bibliography of More Resources:
  http://www.cte.usf.edu/bibs/oral/comm/bib_comm.htm
  

• A Collection of Links Quoted Directly Drom: http://www.siu.edu/departments/cac/caclinks.html#models
  • WAC Strategies for Teachers (U of Kansas)
    
    
  • Writing-Related Resources (Purdue)
    
    
  • InkSpot (Resources for all writers)
    
    
  • Research and Writing in Computer Science and Mathematics
    
    
  • Engineering Writing Centre (U of Toronto)
    
    
  • Online Technical Writing (e.g. Business)
    
    
  • Writing and Science (science.komm)
    
    
  • Writing Resumes, Lab Reports, Application Essays (Rensellaer)
    
    
  • Medical Writing Centre (Canadian Medical Association)
    
    
  • Resources for Journalists
    
    
  • Resources for Business Writers
    
    
  • Resources for Technical and Scientific Writers
    
    
  • Essay Writing for Students in Politics and the Social Science
    
    
  • Model CAC and WAC Programs
    • WAC at Wright State University
    • The Campus Writing Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia
    • Speaking Across the Curriculum at Hamline University
    • WAC at Arizona State University
    • Center for Teaching Excellence (Writing Documents Index) (U of Kansas)
    • WAC at the University of Richmond
    • WAC at Virginia Tech
    • Teaching Oral Communication in Writing Courses (Virginia Tech)
    • Maryland Community College Consortium for Teaching Reasoning
    • Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project (Longview Community College)
      
      
      
  • Additional Sites Suggested by Colorado State( http://aw.colostate.edu/index.htm):
    • Good Places to Start
    • WAC & CAC Programs
    • Selected CAC Resources
    • Online Articles & Papers about CAC
    • Bibliographies on CAC
    • Lists of CAC Resources
    • Electronic Support for CAC
    • Writing and Outcomes Assessment
    • Learning Communities Sites & Information
    • Teaching/Learning Centers & Instructional Technology Projects
    • Computer-Mediated Communication Resources
    • CAC and WAC Program Descriptions
    • Editor's Comments, May 2001, Dickie Selfe, Research Editor
    • Program Report: Project TELL: Technology in Education through Leadership and Literacy, by Danielle DeVoss, Dickie Selfe, and Michael Moore
    • CAC Research Archives
    • Dissertations and Theses on CAC
      
      
    • Online Articles & Papers on WAC & CAC
      The links below contain online articles, papers, and related materials on WAC and CAC. Choose any of the following for more information:

      ·         A Case for Dialogue: WAC and the Call for Faculty Development
      

      ·         Writing across the Curriculum: Toward the Year 2000
      

      ·         Using Content-Based Materials to Stimulate Writing in an English Classroom
      

      ·         Assessing the Impact of Writing across the Curriculum at George Mason
      

      ·         The WAC Newsletter at Wright State
      

      ·         A Short History of WAC
      

      ·         Collaboration in the Classroom and Over the Internet
      

      ·         Guide to Writing and Technology Across the Curriculum
      

      ·         WAC without a Program: From WAC to ECAC, Tidewater Community College
      

      ·         Articles on WAC Published in Grinnell College's Writing Forum
      

Student Papers on Speech Anxiety

Communication Apprehension by Debby Blatzer Presented at the 3rd Annual Student Research Conference Governors State University University Park, IL USA May 29, 1997 http://www.ecnet.net/users/glisten/commapre.htm

PowerPoints on Delivery and Anxiety

• http://www.acd.roch.edu/lhalverson/Anxiety/
• http://www.lib.umb.edu/~sara/ch15/

Additional Resources for Public Speaking

General Information:

• The Public Speaking Website from Allyn and Bacon Publishers:
  http://www.abacon.com/pubspeak/
  
  
• The "The Speechmaking Wheel" assists you in all areas of speech writing and delivery. http://www.abacon.com/beebe/wheel/index.htm
  
  
• The Speaker's Homepage:
  http://www.abacon.com/beebe/homepage/index.htm
  
  
• Advanced Public Speaking Institute: http://www.public-speaking.org/
  
  
• Toastmasters International: http://www.toastmasters.org/tips.htm
  
  
• Anxiety On-line "Test" http://www.med.nyu.edu/Psych/screens/anx.html
  
  
• Ask the Speech Dr. http://members.aol.com/terdoyle/spdoctor.htm
  
  
• Tips from the professionals: http://www.presentations.com/deliver/speak/index.html
  
  
• Resources for an entire class in public speaking from Allen and Bacon! http://www.abacon.com/pubspeak/
  
  
• Public Speaking PowerPoint Downloads to agument a course: http://www.abacon.com/speechcomm/pspwrpnt.html
  
  
• Warm up with -- Tongue Twisters! http://www.communicator.com/hard2say.html and more tongue twisters...http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8136/tonguetwisters.html and even more tongue twisters
  
  
• The International Communication Association-- archived articles on communication. http://www.icahdq.org/publications/archive.html#hcrarchive
  
  
• Additional Links for Public Speakers From Wadsworth Publishers: http://communication.wadsworth.com/publicspeaking/links/links.html#intro

Available from National Communication Association http://www.natcom.org/Instruction/assessment/Assessment/AssessPubs.htm

• "Assessing Motivation to Communicate the NCA Diagnostics Series: This loose-leaf folder contains two computerized assessment instruments on disk, both of which are public domain, and were developed by Jim McCroskey. The instruments are: The Personal Report of Communication Apprehension and The Willingness to Communicate. The computerized versions of the instruments are available for PC's or Macintosh computers. The computer programs administer the two scales, score them, calculate a mean for the given school, and print out the results for the student or person being assessed. Background materials on the two assessment scales are provided in the folder." (Item #518)
  
  
• "The Conversational Skills Rating Scale: This instrument assesses skills related to interpersonal communication. Instructions for use are contained in a user manual with information on how the instrument was developed and its psychometric properties." (Item #520)
  
  
• "The Competent Speaker Speech Evaluation Form: This instrument assesses skills related to public speaking. Instructions for its use, information on how the instrument was developed, and its psychometric properties are contained in a user manual." (Item #516)

Ice Breaker Ideas

• http://www.acd.roch.edu/lhalverson/icebreakers.htm

Try Assigning a Story to Tell!

• http://www.acd.roch.edu/lhalverson/Assign/diversity.htm

Analyze your Audience:

• A basic audience analysis sheet
• A basic assignment on audience analysis

Evaluating the Media:

• http://www.acd.roch.edu/lhalverson/multimedia.htm

Outlines:

• Informative Speeches http://www.acd.roch.edu/lhalverson/organizational_patterns.htm
• Preparing an outline for a persuasive speech:

Other Related Issues

• Sexual Minorities on Community College Campuses
  By Steven Leider: http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed447841.html
  
  
• Self-Report as an Approach to Measuring Communication Competence
  By James C. McCroskey and Linda L. McCroskey: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/143.htm
  
  
• Communication Apprehension and Affinity-Seeking in Superior-Subordinate Relationships
  By Virginia Richmond, James C. McCroskey and L. Davis: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/135.htm
  
  
• Apprehension About Communicating With Supervisors:
  A Test of a Theoretical Relationship Between Types of Communication Apprehension
  By James McCroskey, Virginia Richmond and Leonard Davis: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/132.htm
  
  
• The Development of a US and Generalized Ethnocentrism Scale
  By James W. Neuliep and James C. McCroskey: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~jmccrosk/173.htm

Links Concerning RELAXATION!

Recommended Film/Video Clips Concerning Speech Anxiety

What follows is a list of recommended film/video clips that contain humorous examples of speech apprehension.

• Wedding Singer (you need to edit it though)
• Princess Diaries
• Cool Runnings
• From Wadsworth / Thomson Learning:
  • Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
  • Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
  • Dave (1993)
  • Deconstructing Harry (1997)
  • Forrest Gump (1994)
  • Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
  • Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

Home

Last update by Lori Halverson-Wente: 1/15/02