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Making Sense of End-of-Life Care Decisions in Families: An Application of Relational Dialectics Theory
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Abstract End-of-life (EOL) care planning and decision making is a complex area in health communication that has important implications for families. Relational dialectics theory (RDT) can reveal how competing discourses emerge in family communication surrounding EOL care and shape the meaning of ...
Communicating About Childhood Immunization: New Insights from Aotearoa/New Zealand
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Sample This chapter discusses an ongoing research project to explore communicative phenomena in the childhood immunization context in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Childhood immunization rates in New Zealand offer a complex and perturbing research problem—to the extent that, in 2010, a parliamentary inqu...
Everything but the Kitchen Sync: A Review and Case Study of Interactional Synchrony on the Job Interview
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Sample Akin to schools of fish navigating away from predators in a seamless fashion (Parrish et al., 2002), or flocks of birds moving in a unified pattern throughout the sky (Okubo, 1986), coordination can be detected in almost all aspects of human activity. For example, this phenomenon can manif...
I'm Sorry for Your Loss: Communicating with Those Who are Bereaved
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Sample It was a beautiful spring day in May. The tulips and daffodils were blooming in brilliant shades of yellow, pink, and red. The sky was robin’s egg blue and full of fluffy, white clouds. For 20-year-old Libby Jamieson, it may as well have been a cold December day. Libby was standing in Oak ...
Economics and the Sports Industry: Theory and Applications
Author(s): Corey H. Van de Waal
Most industries provide a workable context for teaching the core concepts of economic theory. As an instructor for core microeconomic theory classes throughout my teaching career, I have found that students respond favorably to examples and contexts that they can readily relate to. This text offe...
Organizational Sensemaking in a Mixed-Media Environment: The Case of Paula Deen
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Abstract The rise of online media has changed not only the way organizations communicate with external stakeholders, but also the way that organizational crises are created, perpetuated, and managed (Sweetser & Metzgar, 2007; Choi & Lin, 2009). The 24/7 news cycle, combined with the “every-person...
My Sketchpad
Author(s): Sandy Guinn
My Sketchpad was written as a result of my students’ inability to properly engage with a blank sketch book. Students clearly struggled with the numerous blank pages that were calling out for content. It became clear that it was too big of a leap to expect students to engage with an empty sketchpad a...
OpenStax Principles of Accounting Vol 1 Financial Accounting softcover
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"Principles of Accounting is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of a two-semester accounting course that covers the fundamentals of financial and managerial accounting. Due to the comprehensive nature of the material, we are offering the book in two volumes. This book is specifical...
The Quest for Understanding: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy
Author(s): Dr. Douglas Giles
The Quest for Understanding: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy is a fresh approach to teaching philosophy for a new millennium. It presents philosophy as a long conversation of people seeking to understand who we are, what the world is really like, and how we can build a better life. Based ...