Workbook to Accompany Straight Talk About Communication Research Methods

Author(s): Christine S Davis, Brandy Stamper, Sayde Brais

The Straight Talk about Communication Research Methods Student Workbook is intended to accompany Christine S. Davis and Kenneth A. Lachlan’s Straight Talk about Communication Research Methods (3rd edition). This workbook is designed to allow students the opportunity to practice the knowledge and...

The Less-Is-More Handbook: A Guide to College Writing

Author(s): Larry G Edgerton

The Less-Is-More Handbook: A Guide to College Writing guides the reader through the basics of college writing. This handbook clearly and efficiently discusses a wide variety of topics, including thesis statements, essays, research papers, and editing. For this handbook of the basics, less is more.Fo...

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...

Living the Dream, The Morning After Music School: A DIY Guide to the Music Business

Author(s): Brian Horner

Based on parallels drawn between fundamental areas of music performance and their counterparts in the business world, Living The Dream...The Morning After Music School – a DIY guide to the music business offers insights and tools to help current or former music majors navigate life as highly capable...

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...

Essentials of Reading: Strategies and Practice for High School and College Readers

Author(s): Nicole Y Strange Martin, Althea Duren

Essentials of Reading: Strategies and Practice for High School and College Readers is written for the purpose of providing quality exercises and passages in a graded level format. The authors have a combined experience of over half a century of classroom instruction in reading education at the pre- ...

The Mask of Microaggressions: Studies of Racism in the U.S.

Author(s): Ronald Goodwin, MARK TSCHAEPE

Racism that is communicated through racial microaggressions is more difficult to locate and reconstruct than the racism that was built into law during enslavement and Jim Crow.The Mask of Microagressions: Studies of Racism in the US presents tools that aid in understanding historical sources of raci...

The Speech I Teach: Public Speaking for Today's Students

Author(s): Michelle DeSelle

The Speech I Teach: Public Speaking for Today’s Student helps students embrace the prestige and eloquence of the art of public speaking as did the Greek and Roman philosophers. The skill of public speaking was widely sought after as it gave prominence to the possessor of such a skill- it was not fea...

21st Century Business Etiquette: From Getting a Job to Building a Career

Author(s): Alberta Thrash, Edwige G Sery

21st Century Business Etiquette: From Getting a Job to Building a Career examines some of the obvious and not so obvious tools individuals can use to build a successful business career. The book begins by examining what an individual needs to do to prepare themselves for their career beginning with ...