Teaching Mass Communication: A Guide to Better Instruction

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This volume brings together essays by mass communication experts who provide practical information on teaching the communication and journalism courses in which they specialise. The authors make recommendations of practical/applied, theoretical, and advanced courses, representing every area of the mass communications curriculum. The books contributors include specialists such as Maurine H. Beasley who offers advice to teachers of media history and Jay Black who offers advice on media ethics. Chapter authors suggest course outlines, teaching strategies and methods of testing, and provide reviews of current texts and supplementary materials such as films and other audio-visual aids.

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The guidebook nature of this book is unlike anything else commercially published.-Communication Booknotes
This is a badly needed book. As the editors point out, we still throw our instructors and assistant professors in to see if they can swim, and usually we don't even hang around long enough to throw them a life preserver when they begin to swallow water. This book is a start on some life preservation for teachers of mass communication.-Journalism Educator
"The guidebook nature of this book is unlike anything else commercially published."-Communication Booknotes
"This is a badly needed book. As the editors point out, we still throw our instructors and assistant professors in to see if they can swim, and usually we don't even hang around long enough to throw them a life preserver when they begin to swallow water. This book is a start on some life preservation for teachers of mass communication."-Journalism Educator

Author Bio

MICHAEL D. MURRAY is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. He was nominated for an award as outstanding teacher in the central states while still a graduate student at Missouri-Columbia. Murray has been honored for teaching excellence at every institution with which he has been associated, including Virginia Tech and the University of Louisville. ANTHONY J. FERRI is Assistant Professor at the Greenspun School of Communication, University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He is the recipient of the Rita Deanin Abbey Teacher Award from the University. Ferri has also taught at Wayne State University and Indiana University-Purdue University.