A brief text with a strong focus on skill development

Essentials of Human Communication shows how human communication skills apply to the real-world and the workplace.  The text presents the fundamental skills of interpersonal, small group, and public communication while emphasizing human communication skills, cultural awareness, listening, critical thinking, ethics, and social media communication.

MyCommunicationLab is an integral part of the DeVito program. Key learning applications include MediaShare, an eText, and a study plan.

This text is available in a variety of formats — digital and print. Pearson offers its titles on the devices students love through Pearson’s MyLab products, CourseSmart, Amazon, and more. To learn more about our programs, pricing options and customization, click the Choices tab.

A better teaching and learning experience

This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience—for you and your students. Here’s how:

• Personalize Learning– MyCommunicationLab is online learning. MyCommunicationLab engages students through personalized learning and helps instructors from course preparation to delivery and assessment.
• Improve Critical Thinking– Critical thinking principles are integrated into the text and in the marginal questions, self-tests, and boxes.
• Engage Students–Real-world examples appear throughout the text.
• Apply Ethics–Real-life ethical issues are discussed.
• Support Instructors– A full set of supplements, including MyCommunicationLab, provides instructors with all the resources and support they need.

This Book a la Carte Edition is an unbound, three-hole punched, loose-leaf version of the textbook and provides students the opportunity to personalized their book by incorporating their own notes and taking the portion of the book they need to class – all at a fraction of the bound book price.