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- Text Comparison—theories covered in A First Look and ten other textbooks
- Theory Overview—abstract of each chapter
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- Changes—for each theory, since the previous edition
- Theory Archive—PDF copies from the last edition in which a theory appeared
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TEXT COMPARISON
THEORY OVERVIEWSNew to Theory Resources?
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short video overview (3:01).
Most recent update: October 4, 2022
Comparing A First Look with 10 other leading Communication Theory texts in their coverage of more than 250 different theories and models.
The Text Comparison tables reflect changes made in the 11th edition as well as new editions of West & Turner (7th, 2022),; Floyd et al (2nd, 2022); Infante, Rancer, et al (2nd, 2017); and Stacks et al (2nd, 2019). Christians & Nordenstreng has been replaced by Austin, Orbe & Sims (3rd edition 2019).
The following views of the table are available as PDF documents.
Full List of all theories covered by the 11 texts, organized by the Context divisions of A First Look.
Alphabetical List of all theories covered by the 11 texts, sorted by theory name.
A First Look Current Edition compares those theories with full chapter coverage in A First Look with the other 10 texts.
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Below is a sample from the beginning of the "Full List" table, inlcuding the list of texts covered. Coverage in A First Look is divided into Full chapter, Brief coverage in a chapter, and/or Archive (PDF copies of chapters from the last edition in which they appeared). An X for another text indicates coverage, but not its depth.
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TEXT COMAPRISON
New to Theory
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Find out more
in this short
video overview
(3:01).
Most recent update: October 4, 2022
Comparing A First Look with 10 other leading Communication Theory texts in their coverage of more than 250 different theories and models.
The Text Comparison tables reflect changes made in the 11th edition as well as new editions of West & Turner (7th, 2022),; Floyd et al (2nd, 2022); Infante, Rancer, et al (2nd, 2017); and Stacks et al (2nd, 2019). Christians & Nordenstreng has been replaced by Austin, Orbe & Sims (3rd edition 2019).
The following views of the table are available as PDF documents.
Full List of all theories covered by the 11 texts, organized by the Context divisions of A First Look.
Alphabetical List of all theories covered by the 11 texts, sorted by theory name.
A First Look Current Edition compares those theories with full chapter coverage in A First Look with the other 10 texts.
Note: If the file you get does not show an update date of October 4, 2022, your browser has cached an older version. Try restarting the browser. It may be necessary to use browser settings to clear the page cache.
Below is a sample from the beginning of the "Full List" table, inlcuding the list of texts covered. Coverage in A First Look is divided into Full chapter, Brief coverage in a chapter, and/or Archive (PDF copies of chapters from the last edition in which they appeared). An X for another text indicates coverage, but not its depth.
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