The Best Communication Studies Books 2025

1. Pocket Keys for Speakers

Combining the expertise of two successful Houghton Mifflin authors, this handbook offers students a practical, "how-to" approach to speaking throughout their academic and professional careers. In addition, the authors clearly distinguish the principles of oral and written communication and provide quick references on grammar and mechanics. The text's convenient handbook size and format, along with its timeless content, make it an ideal life-long resource.

Combining the expertise of two successful Houghton Mifflin authors, this handbook offers students a practical, " how-to" approach to speaking throughout their academic and professional careers. In addition, the authors clearly distinguish the principles of oral and written communication and provide quick references on grammar and mechanics. The text' s convenient handbook size and format, along with its timeless content, make it an ideal lifelong resource.Public speaking coverage addresses ethics, listening, communication apprehension, and strategies for speaking in a variety of contexts.Grammar sections cover clarity and writing style, sentence basics, punctuation, mechanics, and multilingual/ESL strategies.

2. Presentations in Everyday Life Textbook + Media Guide + Cd + Book

Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div, 2006, ISBN# 0618722882

Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div, 2006, ISBN# 0618722882

3. Pre-Owned Bridges Not Walls: A Book about Interpersonal Communication (Paperback) 0073534315 9780073534312

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Title: Bridges Not Walls: A Book about Interpersonal Communication Book Format: Paperback ISBN10: 0073534315 EAN: 9780073534312 Author: Stewart, John Pre-Owned Condition- Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

4. Secrets of Dynamic Communications: Prepare with Focus, Deliver with Clarity, Speak with Power, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - What is the most important ingredient for an effective speech or presentation? Whether you are one who speaks only on rare occasions or you find yourself addressing an audience every day, this book will be an invaluable tool. Beneficial to the experienced pro as well as the new beginner, Secrets of Dynamic Communicationis a practical and effective handbook for powerful presentations of all kinds. It takes the reader through the process of selecting and developing a theme, giving it focus, fleshing it out, and communicating well with the audience. The first half is devoted to preparation, the second to delivery. Author Ken Davis is frequently hired by individuals and companies around the world to bring his humor and expertise to others in the speaking field, and he is now bringing those concepts to the wider community as well. No abstract theories here, only step-by-step help in preparing and delivering speeches that get results You ll soon develop the dynamic speaking skills associated with the very best in the field.

Secrets of Dynamic Communications: Prepare with Focus, Deliver with Clarity, Speak with Power, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

5. Head's Broadcasting in America, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - After fifty years of market prominence and incredible demand from loyal users, Head s Broadcasting in America s tenth edition returns as the celebrated market leader in its field with its renowned treatment of electronic media as a social force and with a distinguished new author team from Sydney Head's legacy school, the University of Miami. Head s Broadcasting in America distinguishes itself by presenting electronic media both as products of contemporary social forces and as social forces in their own right. This text will introduce you to the exciting changes taking place in electronic media. It will help you examine the emerging information infrastructure and the accelerating convergence of various electronic media forms. It will also help you explore the role electronic media plays in many academic areas, ranging from economics to law, from history to social science. You will find this industry more accessible as you experience broadcasting dually through the people and the products that have shaped the history of this medium and through your own experiences with broadcasting in your daily life.

Head's Broadcasting in America, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

6. Guide for Leading Discussions Using Touchstones [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Guide for Leading Discussions Using Touchstones by Howard Zeiderman

Guide for Leading Discussions Using Touchstones, Used [Paperback]

7. The Art of Inquiry: Questioning Strategies for K-6 Classrooms, Used [Paperback]

Asking questions is one of the most essential functions of teaching. In this book, the authors Nancy Lee Cecil and Jeanne Pfeifer show teachers how to develop both their own questioning skills and those of their students. The authors explain how to model provocative, open-ended questions, and provides many useful teacher- and student-directed questioning strategies. From these strategies, children learn how to ask questions that enable them to construct their own meaning from what they read and experience. This revised edition includes several new questioning strategies. In addition, many of the strategies found in the original edition have been updated and/or expanded to reflect today's best practices in educaiton. The Art of Inquiry is divided into two sections. Part I identifies the many types of questions and the thinking skills they promote (such as knowledge, comprehesion, analysis, and evaluation), and discusses how to foster the free flow of questions and anwers. Part II provides practical questioning strategies and activities (for example, Polar Opposite, Think Aloud, and Self-Instruction) that stimulate the highest critical and creative thinking skills. The authors also show how asking the right questions can help children to understand content, learn to ask effective questions of themselves, and make clear connections between diverse thoughts.

The Art of Inquiry : Questioning Strategies for K-6 Classrooms, Used [Paperback]

8. What Language Does Your Patient Hurt In? : A Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Patient Care, Used [Paperback]

Paradigm's textbook focusing on cultural diversity gives students an insightful look at the different communication styles of prevelant immigrant groups, with tips on how each culture relays and receives information. * Predominant cultural attitudes toward illness, death, and dying. * Helpful hints on how to avoid cultural taboos in healthcare delivery.

What Language Does Your Patient Hurt In? : A Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Patient Care, Used [Paperback]

9. Double Bind: The Foundation of Communicational Approach to the Family, Used [Hardcover]

Double Bind: The Foundation of Communicational Approach to the Family

Double Bind: The Foundation of Communicational Approach to the Family, Used [Hardcover]

10. Mediating the Message: Theories of Influences on Mass Media Content, Used [Paperback]

Hailed as one of the "most significant books of the twentieth century" by Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly , Mediating the Message has long been an essential text for media effects scholars and students of media sociology. This new edition of the classic media sociology textbook now offers students a comprehensive, theoretical approach to media content in the twenty-first century, with an added focus on entertainment media and the Internet.

Mediating the Message: Theories of Influences on Mass Media Content, Used [Paperback]