• When a woman is nude : A critical visual analysis of “Harlem” photograph 

  Coker, Wincharles (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

  This paper offers an alternative oppositional reading against the obvious, dominant taken-for-granted codes of scopophilia by which Aaron Siskind’s “Harlem” photograph is interpreted. The paper draws primarily on the works ...
• Urban green spaces in Africa: Nature and challenges 

  Mensah, Collins Adjei (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

  Green spaces constitute a major environmental resource of urban landscape. In Africa, statistics show that urban green spaces are depleting at an alarming rate with green spaces now occupying small proportion of the landmass ...
• An investigation of Chinese students’ learning styles at an english-medium University in Mainland China 

  Li, Chili (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

  This paper reports on an investigation of Chinese tertiary students’ perceptual learning styles at an English-medium university in mainland China. Results revealed that 1) a wide variety of learning styles was distributed ...
• The use of grammatical elements to achieve persuasion in advertising in the print media in Ghana 

  Torto, Richard T. (University of Cape Coast, 2019-11-30)

  Advertising is a type of communication whose ultimate goal is to persuade potential customers of the good qualities of products and services. There are various strategies that advertisers employ in order to persuade their ...
• The question of rhetorical agency in scientific communication: A case study 

  Coker, Wincharles (University of Cape Coast, 2020)

  Though rhetorical scholars have argued that scientific inquiry does not lack human agency, our knowledge of how agency is enacted in scientific texts is blurred. Using abstracts from the American Journal of Bioethics, this ...
• The politics of curriculum design in instructional communication in Ghana 

  Coker, Wincharles (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

  This paper presents findings from a two-year ethnographic study that explored how institutional politics shaped the curriculum of a graduate program in instructional communication in a Ghanaian public university. Using ...
• The physical and behavioral consequences of Facebook use among university students 

  Asante, Kwaku Oppong; Nyarko, Jacob (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

  Facebook is considered as one of the popular social network among young adults including university students globally. However, little studies have examined the adverse health behaviours associated with extensive Facebook ...
• The pedagogic relevance of codeswitching in the classroom: insights from Ewe-English code switching in Ghana 

  Yevudey, Elvis (University of Cape Coast, 2013)

  Codeswitching as a code choice in the classroom has been a debatable issue among scholars interested in language of education, especially in Africa. Some studies promote the exclusive use of the L2 ‘target language’ in the ...
• The language of advertising in the Ghanaian print media 

  Torto, Richard T. (University of Cape Coast, 2015)

  Advertising takes many forms, but in most of them language is of crucial importance (Vestergaard & Schroder 1985). Language has a powerful influence on people and the way they behave. This fact manifests in many human ...
• The Governmentality of journalism education in Ghana 

  Coker, Wincharles (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

  This study evaluates the role of two state regulatory regimes in shaping journalism education at a public university in Ghana. Focusing on the mandates of the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) and the National ...
• The Global imperialism project: lessons from television, movies and radio 

  Opoku, Mensah Eric; Owusu-Amoh, Stephen; Nyarko, Jacob (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

  Old and latest trends in discussions in the sphere of the role of mass communication in media and cultural imperialism have centered on cultural hegemony and cultural colonialism among other such lines of ideological debate. ...
• The dilemma of building campus radio stations on a business model: the case of ATL FM in Ghana 

  Serwornoo, Michael Yao Wodui (University of Cape Coast, 2016)

  The quest for competitiveness and popularity of a campus radio station needs to be balanced with the epistemological frames of community radio, which include participation, community ownership, and opposition to hegemonic ...
• The coverage of Africa in Ghanaian newspapers: The dominant Western voice in the continent’s coverage 

  Serwornoo, Michael Yao Wodui (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

  A growing literature has emerged that is contesting the validity of Africa’s negative Western media representation as a myth and empirically non-existent. This article examines how four national newspapers in Ghana reported ...
• The constraint of a rhetorical invention: Kwame Nkrumah and the Organization of African Unity 

  Mensah, Eric Opoku (University of Cape Coast, 1960)

  Rhetorical constraints have the potential to inhibit a successful communication transaction. How they do that sometimes practically remains unclear, especially within the study of rhetoric in the African context. This paper ...
• The changing college radio model of broadcasting in Ghana 

  Serwornoo, Michael Yao Wodui (University of Cape Coast, 2016)

  There is a considerable history of campus radio that is under-developed and analsed as part of the larger communit media movement. This paper situates an account of the history and recent developments at one campus radio ...
• Taylor and Francis journals under the critical lens of readability analysis 

  Gyasi, William Kodom (University of Cape Coast, 2017)

  Academic journals are channels through which research findings are presented. They are said to be the most potent means of communication in the academic community; hence, they must be as readable as possible. This paper ...
• Communication in the world of fantasy: A case of Inez Haynes Gillmore’s Angel Island 

  Torto, Richard T. (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

  One of the greatest classics of feminist fantasy science fiction, Angel Island by Inez Haynes Gillmore, tells the tragic story of what happens when a group of five shipwrecked sailors encounter on an Island five winged-women ...
• Stating the research problem: A genre-based study of english language M.Phil. Theses in a Ghanaian Public University 

  Coker, Wincharles; Coker, Wilhelmina (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

  Despite the numerous studies on such academic genres as the research abstract, introduction and literature review, the rhetorical section of the statement of the research problem has received little attention. To fill this ...
• Social exclusion of the deaf in corporate television advertising in Ghana: A pilot study 

  Nyarko, Jacob; Asante, Kwaku Oppong (University of Cape Coast, 2015)

  Communication barrier is one of the problems for deaf persons with regard to social integration. This paper was conducted to determine the degree to which the deaf community understands corporate television adverts in Ghana ...
• Readability of HIV/AIDS information manuals in Ghana 

  Gyasi, William Kodom (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

  This paper examined the readability of some medical information documents for HIV/AIDS patients in Ghana. The SMOG readability formula was used to determine the reading levels of the documents which were obtained through ...

• When a woman is nude : A critical visual analysis of “Harlem” photograph 

  Coker, Wincharles (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

  This paper offers an alternative oppositional reading against the obvious, dominant taken-for-granted codes of scopophilia by which Aaron Siskind’s “Harlem” photograph is interpreted. The paper draws primarily on the works ...
• Urban green spaces in Africa: Nature and challenges 

  Mensah, Collins Adjei (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

  Green spaces constitute a major environmental resource of urban landscape. In Africa, statistics show that urban green spaces are depleting at an alarming rate with green spaces now occupying small proportion of the landmass ...
• An investigation of Chinese students’ learning styles at an english-medium University in Mainland China 

  Li, Chili (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

  This paper reports on an investigation of Chinese tertiary students’ perceptual learning styles at an English-medium university in mainland China. Results revealed that 1) a wide variety of learning styles was distributed ...
• The use of grammatical elements to achieve persuasion in advertising in the print media in Ghana 

  Torto, Richard T. (University of Cape Coast, 2019-11-30)

  Advertising is a type of communication whose ultimate goal is to persuade potential customers of the good qualities of products and services. There are various strategies that advertisers employ in order to persuade their ...
• The question of rhetorical agency in scientific communication: A case study 

  Coker, Wincharles (University of Cape Coast, 2020)

  Though rhetorical scholars have argued that scientific inquiry does not lack human agency, our knowledge of how agency is enacted in scientific texts is blurred. Using abstracts from the American Journal of Bioethics, this ...
• The politics of curriculum design in instructional communication in Ghana 

  Coker, Wincharles (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

  This paper presents findings from a two-year ethnographic study that explored how institutional politics shaped the curriculum of a graduate program in instructional communication in a Ghanaian public university. Using ...
• The physical and behavioral consequences of Facebook use among university students 

  Asante, Kwaku Oppong; Nyarko, Jacob (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

  Facebook is considered as one of the popular social network among young adults including university students globally. However, little studies have examined the adverse health behaviours associated with extensive Facebook ...
• The pedagogic relevance of codeswitching in the classroom: insights from Ewe-English code switching in Ghana 

  Yevudey, Elvis (University of Cape Coast, 2013)

  Codeswitching as a code choice in the classroom has been a debatable issue among scholars interested in language of education, especially in Africa. Some studies promote the exclusive use of the L2 ‘target language’ in the ...
• The language of advertising in the Ghanaian print media 

  Torto, Richard T. (University of Cape Coast, 2015)

  Advertising takes many forms, but in most of them language is of crucial importance (Vestergaard & Schroder 1985). Language has a powerful influence on people and the way they behave. This fact manifests in many human ...
• The Governmentality of journalism education in Ghana 

  Coker, Wincharles (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

  This study evaluates the role of two state regulatory regimes in shaping journalism education at a public university in Ghana. Focusing on the mandates of the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) and the National ...
• The Global imperialism project: lessons from television, movies and radio 

  Opoku, Mensah Eric; Owusu-Amoh, Stephen; Nyarko, Jacob (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

  Old and latest trends in discussions in the sphere of the role of mass communication in media and cultural imperialism have centered on cultural hegemony and cultural colonialism among other such lines of ideological debate. ...
• The dilemma of building campus radio stations on a business model: the case of ATL FM in Ghana 

  Serwornoo, Michael Yao Wodui (University of Cape Coast, 2016)

  The quest for competitiveness and popularity of a campus radio station needs to be balanced with the epistemological frames of community radio, which include participation, community ownership, and opposition to hegemonic ...
• The coverage of Africa in Ghanaian newspapers: The dominant Western voice in the continent’s coverage 

  Serwornoo, Michael Yao Wodui (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

  A growing literature has emerged that is contesting the validity of Africa’s negative Western media representation as a myth and empirically non-existent. This article examines how four national newspapers in Ghana reported ...
• The constraint of a rhetorical invention: Kwame Nkrumah and the Organization of African Unity 

  Mensah, Eric Opoku (University of Cape Coast, 1960)

  Rhetorical constraints have the potential to inhibit a successful communication transaction. How they do that sometimes practically remains unclear, especially within the study of rhetoric in the African context. This paper ...
• The changing college radio model of broadcasting in Ghana 

  Serwornoo, Michael Yao Wodui (University of Cape Coast, 2016)

  There is a considerable history of campus radio that is under-developed and analsed as part of the larger communit media movement. This paper situates an account of the history and recent developments at one campus radio ...
• Taylor and Francis journals under the critical lens of readability analysis 

  Gyasi, William Kodom (University of Cape Coast, 2017)

  Academic journals are channels through which research findings are presented. They are said to be the most potent means of communication in the academic community; hence, they must be as readable as possible. This paper ...
• Communication in the world of fantasy: A case of Inez Haynes Gillmore’s Angel Island 

  Torto, Richard T. (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

  One of the greatest classics of feminist fantasy science fiction, Angel Island by Inez Haynes Gillmore, tells the tragic story of what happens when a group of five shipwrecked sailors encounter on an Island five winged-women ...
• Stating the research problem: A genre-based study of english language M.Phil. Theses in a Ghanaian Public University 

  Coker, Wincharles; Coker, Wilhelmina (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

  Despite the numerous studies on such academic genres as the research abstract, introduction and literature review, the rhetorical section of the statement of the research problem has received little attention. To fill this ...
• Social exclusion of the deaf in corporate television advertising in Ghana: A pilot study 

  Nyarko, Jacob; Asante, Kwaku Oppong (University of Cape Coast, 2015)

  Communication barrier is one of the problems for deaf persons with regard to social integration. This paper was conducted to determine the degree to which the deaf community understands corporate television adverts in Ghana ...
• Readability of HIV/AIDS information manuals in Ghana 

  Gyasi, William Kodom (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

  This paper examined the readability of some medical information documents for HIV/AIDS patients in Ghana. The SMOG readability formula was used to determine the reading levels of the documents which were obtained through ...

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