Dr. Albert J. Weitz Associate Professor of Communication Department of Communication Barnett Hall, Room 1108 Truman State University Kirksville, MO 63501 Work: (660)785-4188 Email Address: aweitz@truman.edu Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 12:00 P.M.-1:30 P.M. and 3:00 P.M. - 4:30 P.M.

Teaching Areas

Current Projects

Conference Papers

Personal Interests

Courses

WWW Links of Interest

 

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Teaching Areas

    Public Speaking
    Advanced Public Speaking
    Oral Interpretation
    Advanced Oral Interpretation (Graduate level)
    Critical Perspectives on Performance
    Business and Professional Communication
    Interpersonal Communication
    Persuasion Theory

Current Projects

During the summer of 2002, I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.  Based on the research findings of my field work, I developed a Date Rape Prevention website.  It was brought online in June 2005.  A revised and enhanced version was introduced in November 2007 after nearly two and a half years of development.

I am a member of the Communication Promotion and Tenure Committee (2007-2008).

Conference Papers

Weitz, A.J. (October, 2004).  Communicative and Perceptual Factors Contributing to Date Rape: Interviews with Perpetrators.  Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers 23rd Annual Research and Treatment Conference, Albuquerque, NM.

Weitz, A.J. (April, 1997).  Incorporating simulations and games in the communication classroom.  Central States Communication Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO.

Weitz, A.J. (November, 1993).  Active learning:  Innovation in the workplace classroom.  Society of Manufacturing Engineers Autofact.  1993 Internationl Conference, Chicago, IL

Personal Interests

travel
antiques
nature
horseback riding
water sports (e.g. canoeing, kayaking, swimming, white water rafting, sailing, etc.)
 

Courses-- Spring Semester 2008
     * Public Speaking (COMM 170)
     * Oral Interpretation (COMM 273)

Courses-- Fall Semester 2008
     * Public Speaking (COMM 170)
     *Interpersonal Communication (COMM 252)

World Wide Web Links of Interest
 

Truman  Department of Communication

General Research Websites

News Websites

Statistical Websites

Dictionary/ Thesurus Websites

Search Engine Websites

Writing & Speaking Style Websites

Source Evaluation Websites

Professional Speech Communication Organizations Websites

Truman: Department of Communication Website: (http://communication.truman.edu/)

General Research Websites
    * Librarians' Index to the Internet (http://lii.org/)
    * Libweb- Library WWW Servers (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/?)
    * Library of Congress Home Page (http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html)
    * Artcyclopedia (http://www.artcyclopedia.com/index2.shtml?1101)
    * Quotations. Bartleby.com (http://www.bartleby.com/quotations/)
    * Famous Quotes Search Engine (http://www.famous-quotations.com/asp/search)
    * RhymeZone (http://rhyme.lycos.com/)
    * Acronym and abbreviation list (http://silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms)
    * History Channel (http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/index.html)
    * Biography (http://www.biography.com/search/index.jsp)
    * American Memory All Collections Search (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mdbnote.html)

News Websites
    *  CNN (http://www.cnn.com)
    *  US News (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm)
    *  U.S. Gazetteer (http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer)
    *  Chicago Tribune (http://www.chicago.tribune.com/)
    *  The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/)
    *  TotalNEWS (http://www.totalnews.com/)
    *  Major Legislation by Topic (http://thomas.loc.gov/)

Statistical Websites
    *  Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov/data/)
    *  The Gallup organization (http://www.gallup.com)
    *  The National Contact Center of the Federal Consumer Information Center (http://www.info.gov)
    *  Census Bureau Homepage (http://www.census.gov)
    *  Center for Demography and Ecology (http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/)
    *  Demography and Population Studies (http://demography.anu.edu.au/VirtualLibrary/)
    *  Statistical Abstract of the U.S. (http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/)

Dictionary/Theasurus Websites
    *  Merriam-Webster OnLine (http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm)
    *  Oxford English Dictionary (http://www.oed.com/)
    *  The CMU Pronoucing Dictionary (http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict)
    *  Thesaurus.com  (http://www.thesaurus.com/)
    *  YourDictionary.com (http://www2.yourdictionary.com/index.shtml)

Search Engine Websites
    *  Google (http://www.google.com/)
    *  LYCOS Multimedia Search (http://multimedia.lycos.com/)
    *  Webcrawler (http://www.webcrawler.com)
    *  Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com)

Writing and Speaking Style Website 
    *  Allyn & Bacon Public Speaking Website
        (http://www.abacon.com/pubspeak/index.html)
 

Source Evaluation Websites
    *  How to Critically Analyze Information Sources: Cornell
        (http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill26.htm)
    *  Evaluating Web Resources: Widener University
        (http://www3.widener.edu/Academics/Libraries/Wolfgram_Memorial_Library/Evaluate_Web_Pages/659/)
    *  Citing the Internet: Northwest Missouri State University
        (http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/citing/citing.htm)

Professional Speech Communication Organizations Websites
    *  National Communication Association (http://www.natcom.org/)
    *  Central States Communication Association (http://www.csca-net.org/index.html)
    *  Western States Communication Association (http://www.westcomm.org/)
    *  Southern States Communication Association (http://ssca.net/)