NCA 2023 | Higher Education

Kendall Hunt's Digital Titles from NCA 2023


This publication is organized into two main sections. Section One discusses components of an interpersonal communication model (communicators, content, and contexts). Chapters on each of these topics focus on insightful theory and critical skills of communication. Section Two presents stages in the life span and critical communication challenges for each stage.				In addition to explaining straightforwardly the nuances of creating and delivering noteworthy speeches, the new second edition of Be Heard: Public Speaking for College and Career takes it to the next level—describing the procedures in a more up-to-date manner for verbal and nonverbal communication for a range of listeners—including online and multicultural audiences.
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This title gives students the key to unlocking the full explanatory value of interpersonal communication to better understand and navigate their personal and professional lives. The social constructionist approach of the text provides a lens through which students can view themselves not only as communicators, but also as creators who work together in their interactions to give meaning to their social world.		This publication provides a communication foundation for professionals in business and technical industries. This text aims to guide those whose roles do not exclusively require writing and editing but whose day-to-day responsibilities demand that they focus in technical or business careers in which a professional level of communication is required.		This publication has been developed as a resource manual to be used as a companion to clinical fieldwork. This resource is intended to enhance the development of clinical decision-making and problem solving, goal writing and implementation, and clinical writing skills for aspiring speech language pathologists.
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This is the first introductory textbook on international communication that takes a comprehensive communication perspective. It serves as a solid starting point for students at a variety of levels of their educational path and draws on a wide range of scholarly literature. It offers a rich contribution to the study of international communication that will help students understand basic and advanced features of verbal, visual, and digital communication.		This title covers argumentation from a theoretical perspective with the chapters written with the general college student in mind. It is useful to students of general argumentation and debate who simply want to learn to be better advocates and critical thinkers. The latest edition includes discussion questions, assessments and exercises.		This title is one of the first textbooks to integrate an in-depth exploration of mass communication with an introduction to interpersonal communication and business communication. It answers the essential question: What do students need to understand about the role communication plays in contemporary society, the fundamentals of media production and the structure of communication industries to pursue a career as a communication professional.
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				Gender Actualized: Cases in Communicatively Constructing Realities is an edited collection of 43 cases that provide a common frame for dialoguing about gender/ed issues. Centered in narrative theory, it extends the realm of personal experience by introducing situations in context that involve real decisions about important issues that, like life, do not lend themselves to superficial or simple analysis.
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Human Communication in Action provides students with a valuable resource that can be used beyond the classroom by bringing together leading innovative scholars of Communication as contributors for this human communication textbook. Each unit presents overarching concepts of communication in an easy-to-read and practical manner.		This turn-key, online course package covers the scope of introductory public speaking and provides students with instruction for effective AND ethical use of AI. It is tailored to the learning styles of today's students - concise enough to be comfortable using on a smartphone or tablet, but comprehensive enough to provide ample content and application for class. The new edition includes all new teaching and learning videos for students and teaching resources for adopting instructors.		Based on the author’s experience teaching thousands of individuals on how to prepare and deliver a speech, this online course package, explains how students can manage their fears and anxieties about speaking and be able to adapt to culturally diverse audiences. The publication moves beyond a generic approach to the teaching of public speaking to one that reflects the cultural diversity of the United States. This attention to cultural diversity has been an integral part of our approach from the start, and it pervades the entire text.
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This inclusionary and nuanced online course package helps build the bridge from anxiety and trepidation for the diffident and discouraged budding speaker to success in a variety of public speaking situations. It provides the tools for students to overcome anxiety, design better presentations and integrate research, ethics, body language and use of voice into the foundation of how they present and who they are in the world.		Public Speaking: Your Pathway to Success emphasizes that public speaking is an audience-centered activity. A well-written and delivered public address to the wrong audience is a bust. Public Speaking: Your Pathway to Success provides numerous strategies to understand your audience so you can become a more effective communicator.		Race, Gender, Class, and Media invites students to explore critical aspects of diversity in media. It introduces students to issues of diversity as represented in the U.S. news, film/television, advertising, and public relations industries. It probes foundations, concepts, and practices in media representation of race, gender, and class in America.
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		This publication is a roadmap for general K-12 educators who have “nonmainstream” students. Teachers will learn the very least they need to know to teach students from other cultures and will learn to understand what they can expect from non-native English learners. By increasing critical knowledge of their own American cultural values, the reader will better understand the different cultural values of their students, especially as they relate to schooling and the classroom.		One’s personal, professional, and public life depends on the ability to discover, in any given case, the available means of persuasion, or to adjust ideas to people and people to ideas. The extent to which a person can do that is the extent to which he/she will be successful in those areas of life. However, the ability to sell one’s self and ideas is not easy or normal. This publication helps students cultivate their persuasive skills to become effective communicators and meaningfully apply these principles to real life.
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		This online course package was created to intersect the pulse of communication with society today. It aims to connect to the current generation of presentational speakers that may want to use skills in person, on a live virtual call, or even a social media platform. To be the best speaker is to understand how audiences all may have different backgrounds and needs.		Strategic Communication at Work builds students' communication competence in the dynamic business world. The recently revised online instructional package fuses fifteen chapters, work-based case studies, and student self-guided learning modules to bring academic concepts to life for readers.
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This is a guide book with quick references and complete brief examples. Designed to help students, professionals and anyone asked to speak before an audience, the online publication includes sample performance videos. The new edition now includes a chapter dedicated to team presentations, expanded coverage of the Persuasive Keynote Address, additional activities, examples and much more!		The Write Path is designed to give readers the tools needed to communicate effectively, thoroughly, and confidently. Throughout the book, readers will also find pages for taking notes, exercises, discussion questions, suggested resources, as well as many examples and projects to help them professionally communicate in the most successful ways possible. This interactive workbook is designed in three unique but interconnected parts.
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