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When Do I Get a Break?: Unexpected Emotions for a Stay-at-Home Dad
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Abstract Painting and sculpting had always been Nelson’s passion, and then after college this passion turned into his career. As an artist, Nelson always worked nontraditional hours and took time off between projects. Sales of his artwork brought in spurts of income, while his wife Denise’s salar...
College Writer's Guide: Composition and Critical Thinking in Action
Author(s): Lincoln Johnson
College Writer’s Guide: Composition and Critical Thinking is a tool to help you communicate effectively and become fluent in reading, writing, speaking and listening to Standard English. Good communication is key to success in our academic, personal and professional lives. Integrating the strategies...
Proxemics & COVID-19: Interpersonal Communication and Spatial Preference
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Sample The recent pandemic of COVID-19 will forever change our world and how we interact with one another. Humans and how we communicate have been deeply impacted by rules and regulations which address space and occupants therein. Our personal bubble, or sometimes referred to as a proxemic zone, ...
Beyond X's and O's on the Court: Why Social Media Demands a New Playbook for Student-Athletes
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Abstract This case examines the impact of a Twitter war among student-athletes at rival colleges. The exchange carried out on social media causes wide-reaching effects, prompting administrators to visit the idea of establishing and implementing a social media policy to guide the behavior of their...
Moving Up: The Challenges of Communicating a New Social Class Identity
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Sample ESPN SportsCenter was on, but Jim Morgan wasn’t listening. Instead he was lying on his couch in an otherwise dark room, the light from his television screen flickering across his blank face. His phone was buzzing with text message alerts, but he was ignoring those too. He had a rough week—...
Public Speaking Strategies
Author(s): Mark Huglen, Megan Bell, Lynette M. Mullins, Kevin Duane Thompson
This new edition includes insight into how to avoid microaggressions when public speaking and information to advance remote presentation skills. No doubt there is racial tension and racial strife in the world today, and some of those tensions are obvious and affect us to the core emotionally. There ...
Wolfman Jay and the Writing Center Gang: Humor in Listserv Community Development
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Abstract As individuals become more immersed in online discourse, the rhetorical ways in which face-to-face humor emerges as an important part of the written lexicon remain an important facet of effective communication. Social media, listservs, blogs, email, and collaborative virtual environments...
Hawai'i and Pacific Islands College and Career Success
Author(s): Marsha Fralick, Kauionalani Mead
HumanEsources, in partnership with Kendall Hunt Publishing, hosts an interactive online version of textbooks authored by Dr. Fralick.The interactive version uses the latest technology to include:Interactive exercises with immediate scoring and feedback.Quizzes that are automatically scored. Career a...