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Use this search box to to do a quick search of Communication Abstracts and Communication & Mass Media Complete together. Go to the following sources and the In-Depth Guides below for more searching options.

Communication Abstracts/Communication & Mass Media Complete
ProQuest Social Sciences Search
Holmes, the BC Libraries Online Discovery Tool
International Encyclopedia of Communication
Encyclopedia of Communication Theory
International Index to the Performing Arts
All Communication Databases

New Books in Communication

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In-Depth Research Guides

Course Guides

CO 030: Public Speaking
CO 372: Mass Communication Theory
CO 374: Human Communication Theory
CO 375: Argumentation Theory
CO 425: Broadcast Century Issues
CO 451: Gender Roles & Communication
CO 429: Globalization & the Media
CO 442: Intercultural Communication
CO 449: Crisis Communicaton
CO 458: Radio in Culture & Society
CO 436: Rhetorical Criticism
CO 426: Television & Society

Subject Guides

Mass Media
Interpersonal Communication
Finding Newspapers
Advertising & Public Relations
Marketing & Advertising (Business)
Film Studies

News and Highlights

From Rhetoric to Soundbites
The journalist and former politician Matthew Parris reflects on the importance of words in politics and takes us on a tour of the Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations.