The Interpersonal Communication Playbook
Language: English
Published by Sage Publications, Inc, 2019
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- Title
- The Interpersonal Communication Playbook
- Author
- Gamble, Teri Kwal; Gamble, Michael W.
- Publisher
- Sage Publications, Inc
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Spiral-bound
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1544332777
- ISBN 13
- 9781544332772
- Item weight
- 2.18 pounds
Practical skills for developing successful relationships—both face-to-face and online
Written in a conversational style and presented in an innovative handbook format, The Interpersonal Communication Playbook empowers you to take an active role in the development of your communication skills. Best-selling authors Teri Kwal Gamble and Michael Gamble provide you with abundant opportunities to make personal observations, analyze personal experiences, and assess personal growth across interpersonal contexts. Offering an array of communication settings for you to practice your skills, this text makes it easy for you to see how relevant theory can be applied to develop and maintain healthy relationships with family, friends, romantic partners, and coworkers.
Key Features
- Insightful, relatable examples and real-world scenarios engage you and encourage you to critically reflect on your own communication dynamics.
- “Learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter outline key objectives and help you master important concepts and prepare for exams.
- Opening vignettes introduce the relevance of chapter content through a contemporary example of communication in action, exemplifying chapter themes with engaging and relevant stories.
- “What Do You Know?” features promotes self-assessment of knowledge and encourages you to address any misconceptions you discover.
- “Try This” boxes promote active learning and provide you with opportunities to put your skills into practice.
- “Reflect On This” boxes connect theory with practice—bringing key concepts and ideas to life.
- “Analyze This” boxes encourage you to apply critical thinking to examples of interpersonal encounters from literature and popular culture.
- “Connect the Case” features includes chapter-ending cases designed to help you assess interpersonal communication outcomes to help solidify and further develop the skills learned.
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Review
--Shannon M. DeBord
"A comprehensive book which allows students to play with interpersonal concepts."
--Diane M. Ferrero-Paluzzi
"I would say this book was a comprehensive look at interpersonal communication with a very conversational tone and interactive ideas and activities embedded throughout."
--Kristin H. Carlson
"This textbook takes a practical and applicable approach to teaching interpersonal communication. It uses real-life examples to link theory to practice."
--Angela Gibson
"The text is written well. It makes complex concepts easily accessible to students through the use of relevant and up-to-date examples and scenarios."
--Bayo O. Joachim
"The pedagogical content is this book is better than any I have seen. If a student uses all these features they should be able to clearly understand the material and apply it to their personal situations effectively."
--Kylene J. Wesner
"This textbook engages students by using multiple creative approaches and valuable examples. The breadth and depth of coverage of the field of interpersonal communication is highly appreciated. Students and instructors alike will enjoy learning about the basics of interpersonal communication using this all-inclusive book."
--Leslie Ramos Salazar
"This is an excellent text for an introductory interpersonal communication course with a relational focus in a program that does not offer additional upper division courses in interpersonal or relational communication."
--Todd Lee Goen
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