Communication: Embracing Difference

Communication: Embracing Difference is the first hybrid communication text to stress the importance of understanding and celebrating difference as a means to becoming a more effective communicator.

This new hybrid text targets both mainstream students and non-traditional students who range widely in age, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, social roles, and socio-economic status. Many of these students are parents; many work full time or even hold more than one job; many are the first in their family to go to college.

Communication: Embracing Difference uses examples and an overall approach that are designed to resonate with the diverse student population that makes up so many campuses today. The text describes basic communication theory in everyday, non-technical terms and offers students an abundance of opportunities to analyze, understand, practice, and apply skills to real-life situations presented in the book and encountered in their own daily lives. Communication: Embracing Difference emphasizes the practical application of communication skills in interpersonal, small group, and public settings.

Communication: Embracing Difference, 2/e

Daniel M. Dunn, Purdue University-Calumet
Lisa J. Goodnight, Purdue University-Calumet

·  ISBN-10:      0205478913

·  ISBN-13: 9780205478910

 

Communication: Embracing Difference, 2/e, stresses the importance of understanding and celebrating difference as a means to becoming a more effective communicator.

 

This text describes basic communication theory in everyday, non-technical terms and offers students an abundance of opportunities to analyze, understand, practice, and apply skills to real-life situations presented in the book and encountered in their own daily lives. Communication: Embracing Difference emphasizes the practical application of communication skills in interpersonal, small group, and public settings, which will help students become more confident and successful communicators. Targeting both mainstream students and non-traditional students who range widely in age, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, social roles, and socio-economic status, this text is designed with an overall approach that resonates with the diverse student population making up so many campuses today.

 

 

New Features:

• “Building Confidence” boxes, formerly called “Checklists,” summarize the most important theories or skills of each section. This feature also gives students a list of practical tips that will help them gain confidence in their communication.
• Embracing Differences sections provide students with the opportunity to participate in an application activity that demonstrates how embracing difference can enhance and strengthen how students communicate.  
• A new section called Communication in Action offers real life situations that allow the students to see how communication theories apply to daily life.
• An expanded Communication and Technology section addresses new topics like social networking, iPods, blogs and virtual teams.
• New sample informative and persuasive student speeches serve as models for students as they’re constructing their own speeches.
• Current affairs issues, such as the War on Terror and the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, are discussed in an effort to help students learn how these major events impact communication.

 

Quotes from Reviewers:

 

“Daniel Dunn and Lisa Goodnight present an innovative examination of the communication process that is often overlooked in similar texts” — Professor James E. Reppert, Southern Arkansas University

 

“Up-to-date concepts, honest conversational style and a user-friendly format make it stand out from the rest.” — Professor Ruth Spillberg, Curry College