Product Description: All the skills you need to know to become a confident speaker and conquer speaking anxiety are thoroughly covered in THE CHALLENGE OF EFFECTIVE SPEAKING IN A DIGITAL AGE, 16E. A pioneer in the field, this best seller guides you through six key Speech Planning Action Steps: topic selection, audience analysis and adaptation, effective research (including appropriate use of Internet resources), organization (with an emphasis on outlining), presentational aids (and how to avoid succumbing to "death by PowerPoint"), and language and delivery...read more

Designed to help students understand communication processes in relationships and develop specific skills needed to create and maintain healthy ones, the eleventh edition retains the features that have made this book so successful: a theory driven skills-based focus, an accessible tone and presentation, and numerous useful pedagogical tools. Cynthia Berryman-Fink, a new coauthor, brings fresh insights to this edition, which has a contemporary feel that will resonate with today's students and professors. Well-written and lively, Inter-Act features numerous activities that enable students to relate their everyday experiences to their studies in communication. The text illustrates how cultural, racial, and gender differences as well as electronically mediated messages alter what we should do to communicate effectively. It also emphasizes the importance of ethics in communication and encourages students to develop their analytical abilities as they think critically about the concepts presented in the text. NEW OR REVISED IN THE ELEVENTH EDITION * New: Information on relational dialectics and turning points, coordinated management of meaning, the language of cyberspace, intergenerational family communication, and communicating in a diverse workplace. * New boxed features: "The Gray Zone" offers alternative viewpoints on aspects of interpersonal communication, while "Learn About Yourself" boxes provide students with short surveys to help them understand their own communication styles. * New: More than 50% of the "Diverse Voices" selections, "Inter-Act with Technology" boxes, and "What Would You Do? A Question of Ethics" boxes are new to this edition. * Expanded: The in-text CD now features a complete student workbook with chapter outlines, key terms lists, self-tests, quizzes, and numerous activities designed to help students master the material presented in each chapter. * Revised: The Instructor's Manual/Test Bank (available in both print and electronic versions) contains more effective teaching aids and additional test questions. Visit the companion website, www.oup.com/us/interact, which provides resources for both students and professors.

Product Description: Escrito de manera clara y concisa, esta nueva edicion combina las ultimas investigaciones y tecnicas sobre la comunicacion con ejemplos de la vida real contemporanea. Estos ejemplos contemporaneos son una excelente ayuda para aplicar la teoria a la practi.

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Product Description: Inter-Act: Interpersonal Communication Concepts, Skills, and Contexts, 10/e, by best-selling authors Kathleen S. Verderber and Rudolph F. Verderber, provides a framework for practical communication skills supported by current theory and numerous real-life examples and scenarios...read more

Product Description: This text's five-step learning model helps students improve interpersonal competence in well defined ways--through conceptual understanding, modeling of realistic examples, practicing of skill-building exercises, self assessment, and translating learning into behavior...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)