Communication Apprehension and Competence Division
Interest Group Awards
Listed here are awards given by the Interest Group to its members. Interests Groups are smaller communities within NCA's large membership that provide a range of resources including networking opportunities, Annual Convention programming, leadership opportunities, awards, and specialized information dissemination channels, among others.
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Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Chris R. Sawyer, “Individual Differences in Stress Reactivity and Recovery: A Component Analysis of Public Speaking State Anxiety Waveforms” |
| 2015 | Kevin T. Jones and Jeff Birdsell, “Embracing Opportunities to Change Lives: Teaching At-Risk High School Students Communication Competence Skills through Facework and Improved Self-Monitoring” |
| 2015 | Suzanne Prentiss, “Embracing Opportunities to Reduce Speech Anxiety in the Basic Course Classroom: Data analysis and implications for instructional initiatives” |
| 2015 | James Keaten, Lynne Kelly, and Diana M. Millette, “The Impact of Reticence on Usage of Text Messaging for Everyday Talk” |
| 2014 | Lynne Kelly, James Keaten, and Diane Millette, “The Impact of Reticence and Channel Usage on Small Talk Attitudes, Behavior, and Self-Perceived Competence” |
| 2014 | Heather Carmack and Jocelyn DeGroot, “Development and Validation of the Communication Apprehension about Death Scale” |
| 2014 | Michale Hazel and Chia-Fang Hsu, “Understanding Online Writing Apprehension: An Examination of Temperament, Motivation, Fear of Negative Evaluation and Self-Perceived Writing Competence” |
| 2014 | Joshua Westwick, Karla Hunter, and Laurie Haleta, “The Digital-Divide: Re-Examining Self-Perceived Communication Competency in Face-to-Face and Online Public Speaking Sections” |
| 2012 | Lynne Kelly, James Keaten, and Diane Millette, “’I’ll Text, Talk if I Must, but Don’t Expect Me to Meet with You!’: The Impact of Reticence and Fear of Negative Evaluation on Channel Choice” |
| 2012 | Michael Hazel, James Keaten and Lynne Kelly, “The Impact of Personality Temperament on Communication Reticence and Fear of Negative Evaluation” |
| 2012 | Stephen Croucher, Colleen Malachowski, and Melanie Booth-Butterfield, “An Exploration of Anxiety-provoking Discussion Topics in Interpersonal Relationships” |
Top Article of the Year Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Charles W. Choi, James M. Honeycutt, and Graham D. Bodie “Effects of Imagined Interactions and Rehearsal on Speaking Performance,” Communication Education 64 (2015): 25-44 |
| 2014 | Sandy Hsu |
Outstanding Service Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2014 | Amber Finn |