PowerPoints & Lectures: Even as it is difficult to take extensive notes, there have been some. Power Point are linked here: Cognition, Gender #1, Gender #2, Friendships, Relationship Defined, Conversation, Grice, Social Exchange, Relational Stages, Disengagement, Defensive Comm

Remember there were two lectures in my absense to the Nat Debate Tournament: Lynn: CMC - asynchronous vs. synchronous communication , benefits or drawbacks to CMC; Elizbeth: Dark Side, roughly when it came about, maind focus.

Labs: Notes given in lab are fair game, e.g., Roles, Love & Attraction (Love types), Self-Disclosure, Conflict (Conflict management styles) (Lynn & Elizabeth will adding more specifics here)

John Stewart, Bridges Not Walls

Chapters 6-10, Stewart, one quick article on CMC in Chapter 3 pp115-127; Some I find particularly useful, Messages that hurt - Vangilisti, Defensive Comm - Gibbs, Spirals- Wilmont, Family - Woods

I have been trying to decide how to recommend that which deserves your attention. That is nearly an impossible task in that different articles speak to different readers. One might find Hugh and Gayule Prather's discussion how to fight naive while another is touch by the narrative insights. There is also some redundancy among the articles, yet a power in the cumulative impact. Most can be just read and that is sufficient, others deserve more study and reflection. So there is no magic wand that works for a definitive "study guide."

I recommend a general reading. I could highlight authors that I found had a lot to offer and/or provide material that is "easier" to building exam questions from but every time I attempt that I either include everything or exclude or endorse in ways I do not intend. Suffice it to say that most of the articles in these chapters end up talking about how to construct messages that are appropriate in disclosing, avoiding creating defensiveness, sending messages that hurt, developing family ties, expressing intimacy, bridging gender gaps, confirming rather than disconfirming our partners, navigating friendships, getting into and out of downward spirals, assessing blame, etc. That we make choices in every interaction and could considers alternatives in what we say is of importance. One strategy is to think about how the particular recommendation you are reading about informs YOUR experience, suggests ways to move beyond our already over-learned patterns.

Dan Canary, Michael Cody, and Valarie Manusov, Interpersonal Communication: A Goal-Based Approach

We do not expect you to know all the details in these chapters, as that is considerable vocabulary and categorizations. Rather have a basic sense (definition) of the terms presented here.

Cody et al. Chapter 2 (pp. 34-40) - Grice, Illocutinary Acts: Commissives, acknowledgemnts, topicshifts, Confriming and Disconfirming Message

Chapter 6- Only in the most general sense. Chapter is considerably weaked from last edition. The Affinity-Seeking Strategies on page 161 worth thinking about via efficacy. -- What is self presentation, Goffman’s nature of self-presentation, self-identity and self-presentation, direct strategies of self-presentation, indirect strategies of self-presentation, roles, sandbagging

Chapter 7: Self Disclosure: (also throw in the Roger's reading send on Friday, Johari window from Defensiveness PowerPt). Reciprocity, Social Penetration Theory, boundary coordination, Amount of disclosure; Rawlins model; Petronio's Privacy interesting, but no questions about it.

Chapter 8- impression management, excuses, justification, accounts, face work, politeness theory

Chapter 9: Pretty much everyting is a go, fill in the Powerpt on relationship development.Communicating Liking and Intimacy, fundamental interpersonal needs, Cognitive Valence theory, Stages: Initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, Turning points, Knapp and Vangelisti’s.

Chapter 10: Equity, Strategies of maintenance, Dialectic tensions, Love styles, Marital types,

Chapter 11: Relational disengagement and repair. Obviously Duck and Baxter, but also extensions not addressed in lecture, face work and Politeness, Harvey et al. emotional adjustments

Chapter 12: Compliance: anchors and contrast, reciprocity, commitment, liking, social validation, authority. Just generally be familiar with Compliance Gaining strategies, most of this we did not cover.Also Kellermann;s Compliance Behavior, not strikingly different, but she did doher MA at Wake in the Comm dept :), no Self-cnstruals

Chapter 13: Chapter is pretty straight forward - Conflict styles, Avoidance, integrative and distributive tactics