Portrait of Dr. Seth Frei

Dr. Seth Frei

  • Assoc Professor of Instruction at McCoy College of Business, McCoy College of Business

Scholarly and Creative Works

2023

  • Frei, S. S., Stephens, K. K., & Beebe, S. A. (2023). Doing What We Do Best: Advancing Business Communication Instruction into the Future with an Agenda for Training and Development. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly.
  • Frei, S. S., Alford, A. M., & Smith, A. B. (2023). Students’ Perceptions of Professional Short-Messaging Education in Undergraduate Courses. Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 7, 62–73. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.31446/JCP.2023.1.05

2020

  • Alford, A. M., & Frei, S. S. (n.d.). Keeping it Short and Sweet: Teaching the ‘Short Message’ Writing Format in a Business Communication Classroom (pp. 103–105).

2018

  • Frei, S. S., & Beebe, S. A. (2018). The communication skills of an effective trainer. In J. D. Wallace & D. Becker (Eds.), The Handbook of Communication Training (pp. 348–361). London: Routledge.
  • Frei, S. S. (2018). Changing careers: How newcomers seek information in three types of career transitions.

2017

  • Beebe, S. A., & Frei, S. S. (2017). Student orientations toward communicating in the classroom. In M. L. Houser & A. M. Hosek (Eds.), Handbook of Instructional Communication Rhetorical and Relational Perspectives (pp. 80–93). New York: Routledge.
  • Frei, S. S., & Tatum, N. T. (2017). Applying the instructional beliefs model to training and development research and practice. Discourse: The Journal of the Speech Communication Association of South Dakota, 4, 35–50.

2016

  • Beebe, S. A., & Frei, S. S. (2016). Teaching communication to working adults. In P. L. Witt (Ed.), Communication and Learning (Vol. 16, pp. 673–698). Boston: Walter de Gruyter Inc.
  • Ford, J. L., Ford, J. S., Frei, S. S., Pilny, A., & Berkelaar, B. L. (2016). A network under stress: Using embeddedness to understand uncertainty management and resilience in campus emergencies. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 44. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2016.1192288
  • Ford, J. L., & Frei, S. S. (2016). Training for the unthinkable: Examining message characteristics on motivations to engage in an active-shooter response video. Communication Studies, 67. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510975.2016.1196381

2015

  • Generous, M. A., Houser, M. L., & Frei, S. S. (2015). Exploring college students’ emotional responses to instructor swearing. Communication Research Reports. https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2015.1052901
  • Generous, M. A., Frei, S. S., & Houser, M. L. (2015). When an instructor swears in class: Functions and targets of instructor swearing from college students’ retrospective accounts. Communication Reports. https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2014.927518

2012

  • Frei, S. S. (2012). Training lesson plan example. In S. A. Beebe, T. P. Mottet, & K. D. Roach (Eds.), Training and Development: Enhancing Communication and Leadership Skills. Boston: Pearson.