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O'Keefe's prototypical system for classifying regulative messages into global categories of design logic and functionality was elaborated to classify messages produced for decision-making and request-response tasks.","A series of multivariate analyses of variance was performed to assess the effects message design logic (three levels), message response mode (two levels) and message functionality (three levels: minimally-functional, unifunctional and multifunctional) on properties of message content and structure. A series of 3 x 2 x 2 repeated measures analyses of variance was performed to examine the generalizability of performance on message design logic for the regulative, quasi-oral communication task to performance on the request and decision-making tasks, and to a written response modality.","The results from this study provided partial support for O'Keefe's claims about differences in the contents and structure of expressive, conventional and rhetorical messages, as well as for the generalizability of message design logic across communication task types.","Recommendations for future research focused on: (1) the refinement of t-unit coding schemes developed for this project, and; (2) investigation of an unexpected, negative relationship found between message design logic and functionality in this study.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:53:30Z (GMT). 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