$155.49
Author: Duck Steve
Brand: SAGE Publications, Inc
Edition: 4
Number Of Pages: 384
Details: Product Description
Communication in Everyday Life: A Survey of Communication offers an engaging introduction to communication based on the belief that communication and relationships are always interconnected. Best-selling authors Steve Duck and David T. McMahan incorporate this theme of a relational perspective and a focus on everyday communication to show the connections between concepts and how they can be understood through a shared perspective. Students will learn how topics in communication come together as part of a greater whole, as well as gain practical communication skills, from listening to critical thinking and using technology to communicate.
Review
“Communication in Everyday Life is a wonderful resource for students aspiring to learn more about relationships, media, and communication. It is practical and reminds readers of the many ways we can improve our communication skills to better serve us in areas such as the workplace, family settings, and healthcare. With tremendous attention to detail, the text is an excellent foundation for students as they begin studying communication.”
— Alison N. Novak
“Communication in Everyday Life delivers on the promise of its title: it demonstrates to students through explanation, research, and well-chosen examples how communication is the fabric of relationships, which emerge, exist, and end in everyday interaction. This book helps students to understand how they create their identity, their relationships, their families, their cultures, and their careers through everyday communication. It balances theory and insight with tools to improve communication skills, and it therefore offers a tremendous practical benefit to students.”
— Lance Brendan Young
“Communication In Everyday Life is a student-focused, student-minded text that approaches communication not as an abstract process, but as the primary mechanism which defines our lives and our reality.”
— Andrew F. Rosbury
“A very comprehensive survey of interpersonal communication on a wide array of levels that is easy to understand and is appealing to any audience.” — Christopher H. Smejkal
“This textbook provides a unique perspective on communication that allows students to become more aware of the impact of communication in their lives.” — Heidi L. Muller
“A fun and thorough conversation about communication.” — Brigit K. Talkington
“This book provides a well-written and interesting look at all aspects of communication. My students actually enjoy reading it!” — Donna L. Halper
“This text is an excellent choice for an Introduction to Communication Studies course―it is understandable, relatable, and does a great job integrating current research in a variety of communication contexts.”
— Lisa Weckerle
About the Author
Steve Duck taught in the United Kingdom before taking up the Daniel and Amy Starch Distinguished Research Chair in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa. He has been a professor of communication studies, an adjunct professor of psychology, and a former Dean’s Administrative Fellow and is now Chair of the Rhetoric Department. He has taught interpersonal communication courses, mostly on relationships but also on nonverbal communication, communication in everyday life, construction of identity, communication theory, organizational leadership, and procedures and practices for leaders. More recently, he has taught composition, speaking, and rhetoric, especially for STEM students. By training an interdisciplinary thinker, Steve has focused on the development and decline of relationships, although he has also done research on the dynamics of television production techniques and persuasive messages in health contexts. Steve has written or edited 60 books on relationships and other matters and was the founder and, for the first 15 years, the editor of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. His book Meaningful Relationships: Talking, Sense, and Relating won the G. R.
Release Date: 10-01-2020
Package Dimensions: 17x252x670
