Glossary
Communications Professor Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential communications professor terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key communications professor vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in communications professor training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Adjunct
- Part-time instructor.
- Agenda setting
- Media shaping what matters.
- Content analysis
- Studying message content.
- Ethos, pathos, logos
- Credibility, emotion, logic.
- Extemporaneous
- Prepared but not memorized.
- Forensics
- Competitive speech and debate.
- Framing
- How a story is presented.
- Interpersonal communication
- One-on-one communication.
- Media literacy
- Evaluating media.
- Organizational communication
- Communication at work.
- Peer review
- Expert review of research.
- Public relations
- Managing public image.
- Rhetoric
- Art of persuasion.
- Syllabus
- Course plan and policies.
- Tenure
- Permanent faculty status.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Communications Professor practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Communications Professor training.
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