Creating Communication: Exploring and Expanding Your Fundamental Communication Skills - Softcover

Fujishin, Randy

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9780742555624: Creating Communication: Exploring and Expanding Your Fundamental Communication Skills

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742555623 ISBN 13: 9780742555624

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008

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Tailored for the "hybrid," fundamental, and introduction courses in speech communications, the second edition of Creating Communication is a brief, practical, and student-friendly introduction to the discipline with a unique theme: Students are "artists," using their words and behaviors to create something new and exciting in their lives and in the lives of others. Designed for skills-based courses, Creating Communication provides students with the basic communication skills necessary to improve their public-speaking, group, interpersonal intercultural, leadership, and interviewing communication. The book helps students develop a greater understanding of the importance of communication skills and motivates them to learn more about communication studies. Thorough yet concise, Creating Communication, Second Edition, covers a full range of topics in a clear, organized, and engaging way. In his distinctive conversational tone, Fujishin encourages students to implement powerful changes in the way they communicate with others, empowering them to create more productive and meaningful lives as "artists of communication."

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About the Author:

Randy Fujishin is a speech communication instructor at West Valley College as well as a family and child therapist. He is the author of Gifts from the Heart, Creating Effective Groups, and Discovering the Leader Within.

Review:

This book presents practical information in a way that stimulates thought and encourages introspection. (Victoria Howitt, City College of San Francisco)

The idea of an artist of communication is compelling and attractively presented. (Robert Cocetti, Ph.D., University of Nebraska, Kearney)

A wonderfully brief, easy-to-understand, and practical introduction to speech communication. (Crosby Jay Frasier, Lane Community College)

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