Get Set for Communication Studies / / Will Barton, Andrew Beck.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Barton, Will,; Beck, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Get Set for University : GSU
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgements --; List of Illustrations --; Introduction --; PART I: WHAT IS COMMUNICATION STUDIES? --; 1 Communication Studies in the UK --; 2 Which Theory for Communication Studies? --; 3 Communication Studies Now --; 4 Mapping the Field --; 5 The Communication Studies Toolkit --; 6 Further Reading --; PART II: STUDY SKILLS IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES --; 7 Becoming an Effective Communication Studies Student --; 8 Time Management --; 9 Using a Tutorial --; 10 Notes in Lectures --; 11 Writing Skills --; 12 Examinations: Revising and Sitting --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748680634; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748680634
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Will Barton, Andrew Beck.

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).