Communicating Today: The Essentials

by Raymond Zeuschner

Communicating The Essentials combines a solid grounding in theory and history with competency-oriented chapters on interviewing, group discussion, and public speaking. Through this text, students will gain an appreciation for the development of the field, its major areas of emphasis and its relevance and applications to contemporary issues. Each of the 15 chapters features five themes to augment the focus of the history, diversity, competencies, critical thinking, and technology. Communicating The Essentials challenges students to think about issues, acquire skills and knowledge, understand concepts, and apply terms and theories to their entire communication repertoire.

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992