Communication: Goals and Approaches

by Ronald B. Adler

Communication: Goals and Approaches combines current information with a fun, reader-friendly voice that links course topics to your everyday life. You'll discover the reasons to improve your interpersonal skills and sharpen your critical understanding of the communication process through diverse and compelling examples that illustrate how communication skills can affect both the world around us and our own lives. Improve your relationships and your future career success, with the only text that offers the tools that have been proven to build better communication skills for almost 30 years! Features: * To reflect the diverse needs of today's classrooms, the authors have incorporated more coverage of culture and gender issues within the main body of the text in each chapter * To streamline student's study time and support classroom learning, this edition offers more self-assessment opportunities within the text * In-text, hands-on activities--such as the Invitation to Insight and Skill Builder exercises are assignable as homework and help instructors illustrate how important course concepts relate to every student's life and experiences. This connection highlights the potential impact of developing communication skills both in and out of the classroom. About The Author: Ronald B. Adler, Santa Barbara Community College Russell F. Proctor II, Northern Kentucky University Table Of Contents: 1. A First Look at Internpersonal Communication 2. Communication and Identity: Creating and Presenting the Self 3. Perception: What you see is what you get 4. Emotions: Thinking, Feeling and Communicating 5. Language: Barrier and Bridge 6. Nonverbal Communication: Messages Beyond Words 7. Listening: More than

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Published July 6, 2009

About the author

Ronald Brian Adler