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This updated text aims to provide students with the principles and practical applications needed to work effectively in small groups both in and out of the classroom. It emphasizes critical thinking and uses a general systems theory framework to help students look at the complex human system of the small group. This edition contains expanded coverage of ethics and culture and shows how these issues relate to and affect small group discussion. Additional material on group creativity, group support systems and team-building activities introduce students to methods and tools that can be used in various small group situations and real-life examples open each chapter.
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New Chapter! Chapter 11 "Oral Presentations" is a new chapter
New Chapter!" Chapter 8 "Celebrating Diversity in the Small Group" is a new chapter.
Apply Now! Boxes apply concepts learned throughout the text. These boxes are found in every chapter.
Every chapter begins with a case study relating to the main themes of the chapter.
Case Studies from different contexts (business, health, etc') provide realistic scenarios for student application.
Oral Presentation coverage has been added to Chapter 11.
New Exercises, Case Studies, and Examples are found throughout the text.
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Katherine L. Adams is Professor of Speech Communication at California State University, Fresno, where she received a Meritorious Promise and Performance award in 1989. She has served as their Graduate Coordinator since 1989. She received her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Utah under the direction of B. Aubrey Fisher. She has authored four instructor’s manuals in interpersonal and small group communication and most recently, this group communication book with Gloria Galanes. She has published articles in the areas of conversational analysis and interpersonal communication. Currently she is an associate editor for Communication Reports and The Western Journal of Communication. She participates, at all levels, in the Western States Communication Association and Speech Communication Association and teaches in the areas of interpersonal communication, communication theory, small group communication, and research methods.
Gloria J. Galanes is Associate Professor of Communication and Mass Media at Southwest Missouri St. University and has received the University’s Faculty Excellence in Teaching and the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Member awards.
John K. Brilhart has written numerous academic and mass market articles, is the author of several texts and is Professor Emeritus of the University of Nebraska.
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