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Training & Talent Development: Intersecting Communication, Human Performance Improvement, and Organizational Effectiveness

Author(s): Jason S Wrench, Maryalice Citera, Danette Johnson

New Second Edition Now Available!Training and Talent Development: Intersecting Communication, Human Performance Improvement, and Organizational Effectiveness explores two basic factors related to the T&D world: training and performance improvement.Training and Talent Development is informative, scho...

Improving Writing K-8: Strategies, Assessments, Resources

Author(s): Susan Lenski, Jerry Johns

Improving Writing: Resources, Strategies, and Assessments, by well-known and trusted authors Susan Davis Lenski and Jerry L. Johns, provides teachers with all the background they need to help students improve their writing skills.A variety of strategies, assessment ideas, and resources will meet div...

Handbook of Instructional Communication: Principles & Practices of Teaching Rhetorical & Relational Perspectives

Author(s): Marian Houser, Angela M Hosek

Handbook of Instructional Communication: Principles & Practices of Teaching Rhetorical & Relational Perspectives offers a comprehensive collection of theory and research focusing on the role and effects of communication in instructional environments.Now in its Third Edition, the handbook covers an u...

Leadership in Academic Health Centers: Core Concepts and Critical Cases

Author(s): Ralph A. Gigliotti, Christine Goldthwaite

Leadership in Academic Health Centers: Core Concepts and Critical Cases introduces current and aspiring academic leaders to key dimensions of effective leadership in an academic health context. Drawing upon critical incidents derived from the experiences of academic health leaders, the cases and con...

Public Speaking in a Diverse Society

Author(s): Jennifer H Waldeck, Patricia Kearney, Timothy G. Plax

For even the most successful business executives, political leaders, and entertainers, the process of giving a speech can be a frightening and humbling experience.Based on the author’s experience teaching thousands of individuals on how to prepare and deliver a speech, Public Speaking in a Diverse S...

Introduction to Communication Criticism: Methods, Systems, Analysis and Societal Transformations

Author(s): James Chesebro, Dale Bertelsen, David T. McMahan

Teaching communication criticism is an art, an aesthetic performance, a skill, and a practice that must be adapted to the specific and unique personalities of the students within a classroom. In publication for over four decades, Introduction to Communication Criticism:  Methods, Systems Analysis, a...

Scared Speechless: Communication Apprehension, Avoidence & Effectiveness

Author(s): Virginia P Richmond, Jason S Wrench, James C McCroskey

Scared Speechless: Communication Apprehension, Avoidance, and Effectiveness by Virginia P. Richmond, Jason S. Wrench, and James C. McCroskey examines the most widespread communication problem in our society, shyness, defining the issue and exploring why it occurs.Intended for those people who are “s...

Ethics in the Criminal Justice System

Author(s): Scott H. Belshaw, Peter Johnstone, Lee DeBoer

Ethics in the Criminal Justice System explores ideas and information in and around ethical decision making as it pertains to criminal justice. As an edited volume, Ethics in the Criminal Justice System features contributing authors who have provided a varied and challenging palette of offerings from...

Living the Dream: The Morning After Drama School

Author(s): David Alford, Brian Horner

Based on parallels drawn between fundamental areas of theatre performance and their counterparts in the business world, Living The Dream…The Morning After Drama School – A DIY Guide to the Acting Business offers insights and tools to help current or former drama majors navigate life as highly capabl...

Living the Dream: The Morning After Art School

Author(s): John Watson, Brian Horner

You’ve likely been asked over and over, “What are you going to do with an art degree?”And maybe you’ve been asking yourself that very question.The career of an artist, like that of an actor or musician, is not one that looks like the traditional careers that many of your friends will have. You are a...