Essential Communication

by Ronald B. Adler, Athena du Pré, George Rodman

This is no ordinary textbook. With its revamped design, highly visual features, and concise coverage, the second edition of Essential Communication is a practical, interactive guide for students. Exercises and self quizzes help students reflect on their own communication patterns and improve their skills. Focused on the fundamentals, every element of this text helps students become better communicators online, in person, at home, and at work.

312 pages, Paperback

First published January 2, 2015

About the author

Ronald Brian Adler

Reviews

[Jessica Gleason · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a decent overview for a 1st year comm. class.

[Caley Khovananth · Rating 2 out of 5]

It made me cry at least once and therefore it counts on my yearly reading goal. Anyone who says a textbook doesn’t count can fuck off. I worked hard and suffered through a summer communications class for this shit.

[Trixy Lemell · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really loved this book. Everything is easy to read and follow along. A lot of white space and images so you don't feel as though you are drowning in text and information. Things are put in bold and italics that are important. There are a ton of examples in writing and in image form. There are reflection questions that are not pointless, bullet points, and if you look online you can find a learning guide that is free.

On top of all this, not only is this book informative and easy to understand, it is also up to date with examples and topics that are current to our times.

Highly recommend this book.

[Haley · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's time to put this textbook to rest. It's a bit bittersweet because I cannot get over how much I love this textbook. It was a breeze to read and was so interesting to the point where I never even fell asleep!! I had my last lecture for my speech class using this book last week and have my exams this week. Thank you, Essential Communication, for opening my eyes to so much!

[David Song · Rating 5 out of 5]

Testing..

[Cidney Ko · Rating 4 out of 5]

While some of this is common sense, I actually found a lot of this to be really useful information. I read it during a college course.

[Stefan Lotz · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent text for an ESL B2+ Business Communication course. The language is accessible and the coverage extensive. It also provides a good background to American cultural communication trends.

[Kaylin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I mean it's a school book. Not particularly fantastic.

[nick]

a decent and easy to read textbook