Get Set for Communication Studies (Get Set for University) - Softcover

Will Barton; Andrew Beck

 
9780748620296: Get Set for Communication Studies (Get Set for University)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 074862029X ISBN 13: 9780748620296
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This volume assumes no prior knowledge of the subject. For students who have never studied Communication Studies before, it will give an idea of what to expect. For students already studying Media or Communication Studies at school or college, it will provide a concise but comprehensive learning aid.

Part One includes an overview of Communication Studies, a survey of the current approaches to and theories about Communication that are taught in the majority of UK universities, and the Communication Studies Toolkit - a roundup of the different approaches used to make sense of their objects of study, including semiotics, discourse analysis, social constructionism, visual rhetorics, historical materialism, psychoanalysis, gender criticism (including feminism, postfeminism, and queer theory), structuralism and poststructuralism, postmodernism and postcolonialism.

Part Two covers study skills for undergraduate communication - the level of reading required, types of assignments and assessment, time management, how to use a tutorial, recording notes in lectures, writing skills and revising for and passing examinations (including 'model' exam questions and answers).

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About the Authors

Will Barton is Senior Lecturer in Communication, Culture and Media at Coventry School of Art and Design.

Andrew Beck is Principal Lecturer in Applied Communication at Coventry School of Art and Design.

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
074862029X
ISBN 13 
9780748620296
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
208