Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference

Author(s): Janie Fritz, Leeanne McManus, Michael Kearney

Communication ethics is imperative in the 21st century as the prevalence of conflicting opinions endangers successful, respectful communication. Utilizing a dialogic approach to ethical communication, Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue & Difference provides a timely review of classic communicat...

Intercultural Communication in Your Life

Author(s): Shawn Wahl, Jake Simmons, Jeffrey McCune, Jr.

Where groups of people gather, there is always an elephant in the room: difference. Elephants are remarkable, complex creatures which take up much space. Likewise, matters of race, culture, and difference require creative and complicated conversations—which moves us beyond “we are all alike” or “we ...

Conflict between Persons: The Origins of Leadership

Author(s): Ronald C. Arnett, Leeanne McManus, Amanda McKendree

We live in an age of ethical disputes, making conflict inevitable as we meet others with contrasting ethical positions and contrary communicative expectations. An ethical position held with conviction frequently generates conflict when one encounters another with a differing ethical standpoint embra...

Your Interpersonal Communication: Nature/Nurture Intersections

Author(s): Timothy Mottet, Sally Vogl-Bauer, Marian Houser

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. – Carl Jung Your Interpersonal Communication: Nature/Nurture Intersections helps students better understand this “chemistry” by showing how an individual’s personality ...

Cracking the Code: Successful Strategies for Business Writing

Author(s): Cherilyn Boyer, Cheryl Brodersen, Mikel Chertudi, Caitlin Hills, Michael Mandel, Kimberly Marchesseault, Marisa Michaels, Diza Sauers

For early-career professionals, your first contact with prospective employers or customers is usually through your writing.  Email introductions, cover letters, and everyday correspondence play a large and important role in your professional success.  Cracking the Code: Successful Strategies for Bus...

More Than Talk: A Covenantal Approach to Everyday Communication

Author(s): Bill Strom, Divine Agodzo

More Than Talk: A Covenantal Approach to Everyday Communication introduces readers to everyday communication principles and practices from a Christian perspective.Featuring an invigorated commitment to social science, humanities, and biblical perspectives, the fifth edition of More Than Talk continu...

Listen to Me Now, or Listen to Me Later: A Memoir of Academic Success for College Students

Author(s): William T. Hoston

Listen to Me Now, or Listen to Me Later: A Memoir of Academic Success for College Students provides college students with key strategies and methods for achieving academic success. It gives advice to students on how to approach and handle trials and tribulations, gain self-awareness, and become an a...

Communication Training & Development: Exploring the Cutting Edge

Author(s): Sakile Camara, Mark Orbe, Sidney Kozhi Makai, Lea Gilinets, Rodney Reynolds, Vince Cyboran, Denis Collins, Morgan Jones, Orlando Jr Blake, Patricia Burnett, Kathy Beasley, Sally Fox, Raymonda Burgman, Margaret Baker, Michael Zirulnik, Kathleen Iverson, Leigh Ann Howard, Paul Archer, Bridget Sampson, Alica Boards, Stephanie Sanders, J. Lynn Reynolds, Daniel Lawrence, Serena Santillanes

Communication Training & Development: Exploring the Cutting Edge presents a progressive look at training from multiple perspectives including scholars in the field and practitioners. This book also provides an interesting, practical discussion of the interrelationship between communication and the f...

Communication as Culture: An Introduction to the Communication Process

Author(s): John Gareis, Ellen Cohn

Far from being a context in which communication occurs, culture is the very basis of communication.Communication as Culture explains that whether people talk with family members or someone from another country, they are never anything more or less than enculturated people who abide by the limits of ...

The Last Little Job Finding Manual You'll Ever Need: Removing the Roadblocks from the Job Search Process

Author(s): Jackie Martin

The Last Little Job Finding Manual You’ll Ever Need is just that! Too many job seekers with excellent skills do not know how industry expects them to prepare their job portfolio. The bar is high. Employers expect a very high quality resume, cover letter, and electronic or e-portfolio, and most job s...