Dictionary of Quotations in Communications

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This work is a compilation of more than 3000 quotations on reading, writing, speaking, listening, and many other communications-related topics such as advertising, business, computers, education, film, journalism, language, photography, public relations, rhetoric, television, and world communications. The dictionary contains quotations from the classic to the contemporary, and all are arranged alphabetically, both by and within topics, by the author's last name.

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This is a compilation that represents indefatigable searching by the compilers. One that will be a continuous source of help and pleasure to its users. * American Referenc Books Annual *
Linda K. Fuller and Lilless Shilling complement each other's area of expertise--mass communication and health communication, respectively--so that they have been able to collect in this volume a wide range of quotations on a wide range of topics concerning communication broadly defined. * Communication Research Trends *

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Lilless McPherson Shilling, associate professor at the College of Health Professions at the Medical University of South Carolina, specializes in educational and health communications. With Linda Fuller, she is coauthor of Communicating Comfortably: Your Guide to Overcoming Speaking and Writing Anxieties (1990) and coeditor of Communicating about Communicable Diseases (1995). Linda K. Fuller, PhD, is professor of communications at Worcester State College. She is the author/(co-)editor of more than 20 books, including The Cosby Show (1992), Community TV in the U.S. (1994), and Dictionary of Quotations in Communications (1997). Awarded Fulbright scholarships to teach in Singapore in 1996 and do AIDS research Senegal in 2002, she has also been a visiting scholar at Northeastern University.