This document is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: an examination of investors' understanding of auditing reports; the development and implementation of a communication audit related to selected systems concepts; the communication between the University of Minnesota and the 1975 Minnesota state legislature; organizational communication consulting as studied in consultant practices and prescriptions; communication distortions in a large organization; the role of personality characteristics in written business communication; a comparative analysis of selected organizational variables in a public utility company; lines of communication in the University of Kansas described by the system-semantics methodology; organizational communication to and from the office of presidents of institutions of higher education; error acceptability in written business communication as perceived by business educators and by business communicators; an experimental study to determine the effects of listening skills training on achievement and attitudes in a college business communication course; and communication and interorganizational relationships among complex organizations in social service settings. (DF)