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• Due to copyright restrictions regarding electronic provision of materials, I have encrypted copyrighted documents with a password. Before being able to open them up in the Acrobat Reader, you will be asked to supply a password. That password is com425 and must be entered before the document will open for you. You may wish to write this down somewhere, especially if you wish to save the documents onto disk for future (years later?) reference.

• For those of you who have your own computer system with Internet connectivity, be sure that you download and install the Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0, if it is not already on your system. You will need this software to view and print PDF documents. Furthermore, if you do not have Microsoft Word 97 installed, you can pretty much ignore the Word versions of the documents that I have made available. If interested, Microsoft does provide a "viewer" for Word 97 files which (I believe) you can download from their web site (assuming you can find it in that quagmire of a web presence they call Support).

• Library printing: To merely print out (not download and save) the articles/handouts from the computers in the library, you must do the following:
  1. Double-click on the link to the document. This will open the document in whatever web browser you are using (Internet Explorer or Netscape).
  2. From the menu bar at the top of your browser, click on File > Print. But, before you print, you must be sure to select the Postscript printer from the printer name drop-down box. If you do not select the Postscript version of the printer, the file not only will not print, but it will take 20 minutes or so to not print, freezing your computer in the process.
  3. Once the correct printer is selected (Laserjet blah blah postscript), print the document.
  4. If you have problems, ask the attending lab assistants (at the desk near the printers). It's their job to assist you.

• Library printing and saving to disk: If you also wish to save the document on a disk (floppy disk or Zip disk, preferably the latter) in addition to printing it out at the library, do the following:
  1. Do not double-click on the link to the document. Instead, you must right-click on the link. This will result in a menu box popping up. Select Save target as ... and save the document to the root of the U: drive. (The U: drive is a temporary storage area for your files that is set up when you log onto the library computers.)
  2. Continue this process for all the files you want.
  3. Now open the Adobe Acrobat Reader from the Start > Programs menu.
  4. Once inside the Adobe Acrobat Reader software (it may take a bit of time), select File > Open and then go to the U: drive and select the document you wish to print.
  5. To print, select File > Print but be sure to select the Postscript printer from the printer name drop-down list before you send to the printer. (See comments regarding printing from inside your browser, above.)
  6. Repeat this process, opening the various documents successively and printing them. You will not have to re-select the postscript printer after you have done so the first time.
  7. When finished printing, close the Adobe Acrobat Reader software as well as your Internet browser software.
  8. Now, if you want to move the downloaded files to disk, you will have to open the Windows Explorer and copy or move the files from U: to either A: (floppy disk in drive A:) or D: (Zip disk in drive D). You open the Windows Explorer by going to Start > Programs menu (last item, I believe, second box to the side where listing continues). You could also have saved the file (save target as) directly to your floppy disk or Zip disk, but make sure you have plenty of room given the size(s) of the file(s).
  9. Before logging off, eject your floppy/Zip disks. After you log off, you will not be able to access the external disk drives and any downloaded files saved on the system will be deleted.
  10. If you have problems, ask the attending lab assistants (at the desk near the printers). It's their job to assist you.

Readings:

• Gamst, Glenn (1982). Memory for conversation: Toward a grammar of dyadic conversation, Discourse Processes, 5, 33-51. (Download pdf version.) [1.8 Mb, too large to fit on a single floppy disk. If necessary, download the file in smaller chunks: part 1 and part 2, each less than 1 Mb.]

• Stech, Ernest L. (1979). A grammar of conversation with a quantitative empirical test, Human Communication Research, 5, 158-170. (Download pdf version.) [1.4 Mb, can fit onto a floppy disk if there is nothing else on it]

• Craig, Robert T., & Tracy, Karen (1983). Appendix: The B-K conversation. In Robert T. Craig & Karen Tracy (eds.), Conversational coherence: Form, structure, and strategy. Beverly Hills: Sage, pp. 299-320. (Download pdf version.) [1 Mb, can fit onto a floppy disk if there is little else on it.]

Handouts:

• Handout #1: Bales Interaction Process Analysis
  • Page 18 – Interaction profile of leader in nondirective role. (Download pdf )
  • Page 59 – The system of categories used in observation and their major relations. (Download pdf )
  • Pages 94-95 – Sample conversation with IPA coding. (Download pdf )

• Handout #2: Rogers and Farace – Relational Communication. (Download pdf )

• Handout #3: Cohen's Kappa. (Download pdf or Word doc) [The Word document version is too large to fit onto a single floppy disk, in case you are saving to disk.]

• Handout #4: Summary of Gamst' Conversational Grammar. (Download pdf or Word doc)

• Handout #5: Stech's Propositions. (Download pdf or Word doc)

• Handout #6: Lag Sequential and Markov Analysis. (Download pdf)

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