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References PRETTY GOOD START HERE. SOME SMALL APA ERRORS. THE FIRST 2 CITES ARE TEXTBOOKS AND YOU'VE GOT ON CONF PAPER IN THE MIX. ARE THERE OTHER CITATIONS OF JOURNAL ARTICLES OR BOOK CHAPTERS THAT YOU CAN ADD?

Taylor, A. (1975, 1992). Communicating (1^st ed., 6^th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Taylor, A. (1979, 1984). Speaking in Public (1^st ed.; 2^nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Taylor, A., Bate, B. (1988). Women Communicating: Studies of Women’s Talk. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Taylor, A. (1993). Language and the Construction of Gender: Clarifying Ideas about Gender. Annual Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1-27.

Taylor, A. (1994). Meeting at the Crossroads. Women and Language, 17(2), 44.

Taylor, A., Miller, J. B. (July 1994). Gender Diversity: Conceptions of a Changeable Variable. Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, 1-42.

Taylor, A. (1995). The Masculine Mystique: The politics of masculinity by Andrew Kimbrell. Women and Language, 13(2), 55.

Taylor, A., Perry, L. A. M. (2001). Paradoxes: No simple matter. Women and Language, 24(2), 1-6.

Taylor, A., & Hardman, M. J. (2004). War, language and gender, what new can be said? Framing the Issues1. Women and Language, 27(2), 3-19.

Taylor, A. (2007). Gender equity in communication skills. Handbook for Achieving Gender Equity Through Education. (pp. 281-303). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis Group.

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History/Background

· Born in southern Kansas near Caldwell, date unknown (during the dustbowl as noted in autobiographical article) (https://www.natcom.org/uploadedFiles/About_NCA/History/Taylor.pdf)

· Colleges/universities attended

o Ph.D in Rhetoric and Public Address, from University of Missouri (https://www.natcom.org/uploadedFiles/About_NCA/History/Taylor.pdf)

· Currently professor emerita of communication and member of the gender and women studies faculty at George Mason University (http://communication.gmu.edu/people/ataylor)

Scholarly work

· Main focus of research is women in education

Other contributions

· Coached debate, taught or did administration at university level for more than 45 years

· Chaired George Mason University Dept. of Communication and Performing Arts

· Founding chair of GMU’s Communication Department

· President of the National Communication Association in 1981

· Received Speech Communication Association’s first Francine Merritt award in 1991WHICH IS FOR?

· Named Communicator of the Year by the Virginia Association of Communication Arts and Sciences in 1996

· Awarded Distinguished Service Award of the National Communication Association in 2000

· Selected as inaugural Feminist Teacher/Mentor by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender in 2002

· Selected as an NCA Mentor in 2003

Further readings

· Taylor, A. (1975, 1992). Communicating (1^st ed., 6^th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

· Taylor, A. (1979, 1984). Speaking in Public (1^st ed.; 2^nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

· Taylor, A., Bate, B. (1988). Women Communicating: Studies of Women’s Talk. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

· Taylor, A. (1993). Language and the Construction of Gender: Clarifying Ideas about Gender. Annual Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1-27.

· Taylor, A. (1994). Meeting at the Crossroads. Women and Language, 17(2), 44.

· Taylor, A., Miller, J. B. (July 1994). Gender Diversity: Conceptions of a Changeable Variable. Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, 1-42.

· Taylor, A. (1995). The Masculine Mystique: The politics of masculinity by Andrew Kimbrell. Women and Language, 13(2), 55.

· Taylor, A., Perry, L. A. M. (2001). Paradoxes: No simple matter. Women and Language, 24(2), 1-6.

· Taylor, A., & Hardman, M. J. (2004). War, language and gender, what new can be said? Framing the Issues1. Women and Language, 27(2), 3-19.

· Taylor, A. (2007). Gender equity in communication skills. Handbook for Achieving Gender Equity Through Education. (pp. 281-303). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis Group.

References

· George Mason University. (2017). Anita Taylor. College of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty and Staff. Retrieved from http://communication.gmu.edu/people/ataylor

· Taylor, A. (Nov. 2006). Anita Taylor, 1981 President, National Communication Association. The Review of Communication, 6(3), 204-216.

· Marx, M. (March 2015). Professor Anita Taylor discusses prominent social issues at lecture. The Blue and Gray Press. Retrieved from http://blueandgraypress.com/2015/03/26/professor-anita-taylor-discusses-prominent-social-issues-at-lecture/

· https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Communication_Association

Anita Taylor is professor emerita of communication and a member of the gender and women studies faculty at George Mason University. Taylor was born in Kansas during the dustbowl and went on to become very active in research focusing on women in education.

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Background

Anita Taylor was born in southern Kansas, near Caldwell, during the dustbowl. She later attended the University of Missouri, where she obtained her Ph.D in Rhetoric and Public Address.

Awards

Taylor has taught or worked in administration at the university level for more than 45 years. She was chair of George Mason University Department of Communication and Performing Arts as well as the founding chair of the Communication Department there.

Taylor was elected president of the National Communication Association in 1981.

In 1991, Taylor received the Speech Communication Associations first ever Francine Merritt award. Five years later, she was named Communicator of the Year by the Virginia Association of Communication Arts and Sciences.

In 2000, she was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the National Communication Association, which she was selected to be a mentor for in 2003. She was also selected as inaugural Feminist Teacher/Mentor by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender in 2002.

Contributions to the Communication Field

Taylor has contributed to the communication field by focusing mainly on women in education. Her first published book was Communicating which was eventually published in six editions.

From 1989 until 2010 she was the editor of Women and Language, a research periodical. While working at this periodical she published many reviews of other scholars.

She has also edited publications Gender and Conflict, Hearing Many Voices, and Women as Communicators: Studies of Women’s Talk.