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...

Casing Crisis and Risk Communication

Author(s): Corey Liberman, Dariela Rodriguez, Theodore A Avtgis

Crisis and risk communication are equally important to the structure of society. Without understanding how to effectively respond to, and potentially avoid, crisis and risk, individuals could find themselves in a state of everlasting collapse. Casing Crisis and Risk Communication explores specifi...

Health Communication in Everyday Life

Author(s): Linda L, Gary Kreps, Anthony Roberto

We are all health communicators - whether it is interacting with our medical practitioners, wearing a fitness tracker, giving encouraging words to a friend or family member, or searching for health information online. Health Communication in Everyday Life introduces students to health communicati...

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 ...

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...

Becoming Aware: A Text-Workbook for Human Relations and Personal Adjustment

Author(s): Katie Barwick-Snell

Becoming Aware: A Text/Workbook for Human Relations and Personal Adjustment assists the reader in the process of becoming more aware of themselves and others through the most interactive learning process found in any textbook.Becoming Aware helps students explore, experiment, test, and apply the sch...

Basic Reading Inventory: Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve and Early Literacy Assessment

Author(s): Jerry L. Johns, Laurie Elish-Piper, BETH JOHNS

Basic Reading Inventory provided valuable information that other district and state tests did not. Thank you for making this test available to our students!” Dr. Linda J. Button, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs  "I use Jerry Johns’ Basic Reading Inventory because I can assess any K-12 stud...

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...

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...