This volume of an annual collection of essays relating to instruction in the basic communication course is presented in five sections: (1) Six Approaches to the Introductory Course: A Forum; (2) 1990 Basic Course Committee Award Winning Papers; (3) Instruction in the Introductory Communication Course; (4) Research on the Introductory Communication Course; and (5) Seminar on the Issues in the Introductory Course in Speech Communication. Papers in the collection include: "The Introductory Communication Course: The Public Speaking Approach" (Rudolph F. Verderber); "The Introductory Communication Course: The Hybrid Approach" (Judy C. Pearson and Richard West); "Small Group Communication as an Introductory Course" (John L. Brilhart); "Introductory Communication Theory: Not Another Skills Course" (William C. Donaghy); "The Interpersonal Communication Course" (Joseph A. DeVito); "The Business and Professional Speaking Course" (Lawrence W. Hugenberg and others); "The Introductory Communication Course: Results of a National Survey" (Douglas M. Trank and Pat Lewis); "Logic and Emotion, Persuasion and Argumentation: 'Good Reasons' as an Educational Synthesis" (Warren Sandmann); "Instructional Communication Strategies for Adapting to a Multicultural Introductory Course" (Charles A. Braithwaite and Dawn O. Braithwaite); "The R3A3 Processing System for Experiential Learning in the Classroom" (Pamela L. Gray); "Reading Our Own Speech Critiques as Texts that Reveal Educational Goals, Instructional Roles, and Communicative Functions" (Jo Sprague); "Classroom Interventions for Reducing Public Speaking Anxiety" (Michael R. Neer and W. Faye Kirchner); "Measurement of Communication Motivation in Public Speaking: An Exploratory Study and Scale Development Based on Expectancy Theory" (Edwin J. Dawson and Donald D. Yoder); "Models for Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Training: The 'Real,' the 'Necessary,' and the 'Ideal'" (Nancy L. Buerkel-Rothfuss and Pamela L. Gray); and "Summary of the Issues Discussed during the Seminar on the Introductory Course in Speech Communication" (Lawrence W. Hugenberg and Donald D. Yoder). (SR)