Robert T. Craig
University of Colorado at Boulder
September 2000

History of Communication Studies: Selected Bibliography

* Key Sources

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Benson, T. W. (1997, January 12). Carroll Arnold (1912-1997). CRTNET, Number 1640. [Online: http://lists1.cac.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CRTNET]

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Brownell, J. (1982). Elwood Murray's laboratory in interpersonal communication. Communication Education, 31, 325-332.

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Carey, J. (1979). Graduate education in mass communication. Communication Education, 28, 282-293.

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Windt, Jr., T. O. (1990). Rhetoric as a human adventure: A short biography of Everett Lee Hunt. Annandale, VA: Speech Communication Association.

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Woolbert, C. H. (1916). The organization of departments of speech science in universities. The Quarterly Journal of Public Speaking, 2, 64-77.

Woolbert, C. H. (1923). The teaching of speech as an academic discipline. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 9, 1-18.

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