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Advanced Professional Communication This open textbook supports the learning outcomes of Fanshawe College’s Advanced Professional Communications curriculum (COMM 6019). This resource is designed to guide college students in advancing their existing skills in communication by using a principled approach to business communication for managerial and leadership success in the modern workplace.
Advanced Public Speaking This advanced public speaking textbook is designed to encourage you as a speaker and to help you sharpen your skills. It is written to feel like you are sitting with a trusted mentor over coffee as you receive practical advice on speaking. Grow in confidence, unleash your personal power and find your unique style as you learn to take your speaking to the next level--polished and professional.
Building Relationships With Business Communication Building Relationships With Business Communication combines some of the best available open access content for introductory courses in business communication and supplements this content with new material on personal and social identity; rhetorical listening; inclusive language; storytelling; and territorial Land Acknowledgements. The textbook is focused on a Canadian audience of first-year Commerce students. H5P interactive content, the infusion of real world examples, and an engaging layout make this textbook highly readable for this audience.
Communication in the Real World This text is in use at James Madison University for students enrolled in SCOM 121/122/123. It also the text in use at Blue Ridge Community College for students enrolled in CST 110.
Communications in Law Enforcement and the Criminal Justice System: Key Principles This book will examine the key principles of communication personnel in law enforcement require. Areas covered include listening skills, communicating tactics, interviewing skills, note-taking, report writing and testifying in court. Also covered is a section on PTSD and its interaction with law enforcement.
Communication Training and Development This new edition builds on the strengths of the popular first edition, providing an interesting, practical discussion of the interrelationship between communication and the field of training and development.
Culturally Speaking: The Rhetoric of Voice and Identity in a Mediated Culture Examines racial and gendered dimensions of voice in American culture, showing how vocal sound helps to shape cultural power dynamics.
Effective Professional Communication: A Rhetorical Approach
The Environment in the Age of the Internet The Environment in the Age of the Internet is an interdisciplinary collection that draws together research and answers from media and communication studies, social sciences, modern history, and folklore studies.
Exploring Public Speaking: 4th Edition
Global Warming in Local Discourses: How Communities around the World Make Sense of Climate Change Global news on anthropogenic climate change is shaped by international politics, scientific reports and voices from transnational protest movements. This timely volume asks how local communities engage with these transnational discourses.
How the World Changed Social Media How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a comparative analysis summarizing the results of the research and explores the impact of social media on politics and gender, education and commerce.
Introducing Vigilant Audiences This ground-breaking collection of essays examines the scope and consequences of digital vigilantism – a phenomenon emerging on a global scale, which sees digital audiences using social platforms to shape social and political life.
Introduction to Communication Research: Becoming a Scholar This ground-breaking collection of essays examines the scope and consequences of digital vigilantism – a phenomenon emerging on a global scale, which sees digital audiences using social platforms to shape social and political life.
Introduction to Social Scientific Research Methods in the field of Communication UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Centric, developed with University of Iowa students. Each chapter will describe the major concepts in students’ own words. Emily Hott, Leah Blask, McKenzie Paulsen, Caleb Moody, Isabella Caruso, and Sofia Rupert worked with DocMC to write the first draft of each of the chapters in 2019. Emily Hott, Leah Blask, McKenzie Paulsen, Caleb Moody continued to work on subsequent drafts to create what you see here, McKenzie and Caleb making edits right up through 2021.
Introduction to Speech Communication Introduction to Speech Communication is used to support teaching, learning and research for SPCH 2713 at Oklahoma State University (OSU). In addition to inclusion of original work authored by the editors to meet the needs of their course at OSU, the editors adapted portions of Exploring Public Speaking: 4th Edition, Stand Up, Speak Out, and Fundamentals of Public Speaking. Please see the Acknowledgements chapter for full citations. We at Oklahoma State University Libraries acknowledge our gratitude for the expertise and generosity of the scholars at Affordable Learning Georgia, College of the Canyons, the Open Education Network and elsewhere for creating and sharing customizable versions of their work.
Intro to Social Media This book is aimed at managers, business owners, marketing managers, and aspiring social media marketing interns and managers.
In Your Eyes: Communicating in Close Relationships This book was crafted for a new generation of people with an interest in communication studies, especially scholarship and concepts that speak to the role of close relationships in our lives and work. As you read through each chapter, you’ll meet new characters, ponder discussion questions, and interact with reflection activities that will get you to think deeply about various themes. This book is an entry-point into so many avenues for communication exploration and we hope you’ll see yourself reflected in the content. We encourage you to engage with this material with an open mind and heart—much awaits!
LibreTexts Communication Studies Bookshelf Communication studies addresses the processes involved in human communication and behavior. There are three types of communication: verbal, involving listening to a person to understand the meaning of a message; written, in which a message is read; and nonverbal communication involving observing a person and inferring meaning. The discipline encompasses a range of topics, from face-to-face conversation to mass media outlets, such as television broadcasting.
Message Processing: The Science of Creating Understanding The text provides an upper-level undergraduate introduction and explanation of the social and cognitive processes involved in human communication, focusing on how people create understanding.
Open Textbook Library - Journalism, Media Studies & Communication Textbooks
Oral Communication for Non-Native Speakers of English This textbook includes materials on listening, speaking, lexicogrammar, pragmatics, and pronunciation.
Persuasion Theory in Action: An Open Educational Resources This textbook is an open educational resource for undergraduate persuasion courses.
Power, Profit, and Privilege: Problematizing Scholarly Publishing. This open course introduces students to the scholarly communications system — with particular emphasis on the scholarly journal publishing mechanism — wherein new information is created, evaluated, disseminated, and preserved.
Public Interest Communication Bringing together aspects of ethics, social and civil responsibility, advocacy and publics, this introductory textbook provides a new approach to communication theory and practice in the post truth era. In this book, students will examine fields that intersect with public interest frameworks to provide building blocks and strategies for effective communication. These include organisational listening, capacity building, partnerships and alliances, the role of social enterprises, the concepts of 'wicked problems' and 'discourse arenas', and the importance of participation and activism in generating democratic debate. The book examines social problems and interest conflicts that are faced every day - from environmental degradation to homelessness; public health to media power - and considers the positions of different publics and individuals in navigating the communication of public interest processes and outcomes.
Public Speaking Project an assortment of virtual tools to help users improve their public speaking skills. A variety of speech professionals who are dedicated to providing free and low cost instructional materials contributed their original work.
Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web What we can learn about human nature from the informative, manipulative, confusing, and amusing messages at the bottom of the web. Online comment can be informative or misleading, entertaining or maddening. Haters and manipulators often seem to monopolize the conversation. Some comments are off-topic, or even topic-less.
Small Group Communication: Forming & Sustaining Teams Small Group Communication: Forming & Sustaining Teams is an interdisciplinary textbook focused on communication in groups and teams.
Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy is a contemporary, interdisciplinary public speaking textbook that fuses rhetoric, critical/cultural studies, and performance to offer an up-to-date resource for students. With a focus on advocacy, this textbook invites students to consider public speaking as a political, purposeful form of information-sharing.
Trends in Digital & Social Media (V17) Social media, digital devices, and networked communication systems have become fully integrated into our everyday living experience.
Writing for Strategic Communication Industries Good writing skills are important in today’s competitive work environment. This is especially the case for communication-related professions such as public relations, brand communication, journalism, and marketing.