Real Communication

by Dan O'Hair, Mary Wiemann, Dorothy Imrich Mullin

Combining stories from actual students with fascinating examples from pop culture and today's news, Real Communication explains why having versitile communication skills is imperative for successful personal and professional relationships.

Genres: Textbooks, Nonfiction, School

624 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

DAN O'HAIR is dean of the University of Kentucky College of Communications and Information Studies (2009). Married with two children. 1982-Ph.D. University of Oklahoma Communication; 1979-M.A. Texas Tech University Speech Communication; 1978 B.A. Texas Tech University Speech Communication

Reviews

[Charlette · Rating 4 out of 5]

We had to use this book for my Intro to Speech class. I wouldn't normally add this to my goodreads, but considering the reason I didn't read as many books this year is because I had to read textbooks, I'm going to county it towards my goodreads goal lol.

The textbook was very easy to read, which is nice, especially with a heavy course load and/or working full-time while going to school (like myself). It's straight foward, informative, and doesn't bog itself down by repeating itself.

If this is the required textbook for whatever speech class you need to take, I would definitely count that as a point in its favor.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

okay for a text book.

[谢林 Schelling · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was alright. There cited are an abundance of academic studies but few attempts to build a sound structure from the bottom up.