Raising the Question #4 Why Bother Attending Conferences?

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. The issue of why attend conventions was first discussed in our associations by Lee Emerson Bassett (Citation1933) during the Great Depression. Professor Bassett begged people to attend the national meeting in an article written in the Quarterly Journal of Speech. (See also: Arnold & Lee, Citation1974; Callaghan, Citation1960). The value of membership in associations, including attending conventions, has been discussed previously by Stacks, Rosenfeld, and Hickson (Citation1989), as well as Rosenfeld, Stacks, and Hickson (Citation1990). 2. The value of convention papers versus articles and books has been debated by Becker (Citation1983) and Trent (Citation1983). Additional informationNotes on contributorsMark Hickson, Iii Mark Hickson, III (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, 1971) is Professor of Communication at the University of Alabama at Birmingham