Communicate!

by Rudolph F. Verderber, Kathleen S. Verderber

Continually praised by reviewers for its clear and concise writing style, this ground breaking and market-leading textbook is theory-based with a skill building and competency orientation. The authors provide lively, contemporary examples to ground theory, to increase comprehension, and to help you become skillful communicators. COMMUNICATE! encourages active learning through well-designed analytical and skill-building activities, video scenarios, ethics cases, speech action-step exercises, and sample speeches. This book will help you understand theory, and help you improve your communication skills. The twelfth edition of COMMUNICATE! reflects important changes in the field and has been updated to reflect the issues and interests of today's college students.

Genres: Textbooks, Nonfiction

494 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Rudolph F. Verderber (Ph.D. University of Missouri) is a professor and former Head of the Department of Communication at the University of Cincinnati. During his career he has taught speech courses at both the college and high school levels. In addition, he consults with high school teachers and gives workshops for teachers and private organizations. He has served as parliamentarian for state and regional meetings of several national organizations and as Director of Forensics at the University of Cincinnati. He also has experience acting in theater productions. His publications include numerous articles; a manual on debate for high school and college courses; and three best-selling college texts covering public speaking, interpersonal communication, and general speech communication skills. Professor Verderber is a member of the Speech Communication Association and the Central States Speech Association and is the recipient of the prestigious Dolly Cohen Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Cincinnati and the Distinguished Service Award from the Speech Communication Association of Ohio.

Reviews

[Daughter of Paper and Stone · Rating 4 out of 5]

Preface

In the world of college textbooks this little bundle of expensive information -that I could google -was not bad.

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RATINGS:

Knowledge: 3.5 📜📜📜💫

A great amount of knowledge

(Even if you have communicated with other people before; the book gives some brand new insights in the world of verbal and nonverbal language. It is interesting to see how cultures vary. Even more interesting noticing the things in all the countries I have visited/lived that I never acknowledged before. There were a moment were I stopped and went…
”wait a minute. That is true! How didn’t I ever acknowledge that before?”)

Complexity: 2 🧘🏼‍♀️🧘🏼‍♀️

Dipped half my body

(It was so easy to understand and while some aspects might be complex for people who never studied linguistics or communications, the book doesn’t make you feel dumb about it.)

Interest: 2.5 🧚🏻‍♀️🧚🏻‍♀️💫

A full cup of interest

(Might have been more if I had not been forced to read it because of a class. Books tend to lose allure when you are forced to endure them).

Overall star rating : 3.5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

It was good, it was almost great.

[David Gallagher · Rating 4 out of 5]

When I told my partner I got this book from the school library he told me a story about Verderben and how he sued one of my partner's college professors for plagiarism. Verderben takes what he does very seriously and is one ruthless man.

But I admire him nonetheless. Communicate! is a book I consider to be containing anything anyone would ever want/need to know about communication. The chapters are clearly divided, it has photos, comic strips, tables and models which work as visual additions, and it has exercises, "tests" and group projects which I found very useful, especially in the case of using this book as a textbook for class.

However, in certain cases it tends to be too detailed and specific knowledge in it is abundant and difficult to memorize. But otherwise, an excellent work.

[T.L. Hicks · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got the 2nd edition of this book.

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was a half-way decent college textbook. They made attempts to be funny and inserted witty little comic strips that portrayed the point they were trying to get across. This book was informative, I learned from it, but at the same time, some of the information they gave me was a little redundant. I think that I know the meaning of "pitch" and "tone" and don't need them to be vocabulary words. I did get the most kicks out of reading their words and definitions. I only read the chapters that I was assigned, so it wasn't breathtakingly amazing. Can't say that I would recommend this book though.

*Taken from my book reviews blog: http://reviewsatmse.blogspot.com/2008...

[Haytham Badawey · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book provides a good explanation for all processes of human communication. The key terms are well defined in the margin, the key ideas are highlighted and well explaned. The end of chapter has additional sources for further reading, including movies and websites, etc. The only thing that annoys me is that the font of the book is too small, which hamper the reading, and also the books contains lots of useless pictures and very few illustrations.

[Jasmyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read for class ... noting exciting.

[Noman]

no thing

[Marcela Lacouture]

me parece un libro muy interesante