INVITATION TO HUMAN COMMUNICATION, working in partnership with National Geographic, acknowledges the complexity of today's world, the power of communication, and the necessity of teaching students the foundational skills they will need to both compete and succeed in this complex and exciting environment.Because of our innovative alliance with National Geographic, Invitation to Human Communication is able to facilitate the teaching of foundational communication theories and skills in unique and ground breaking ways. Our collaboration allows us to showcase not only the best of communication theories and practice, but also to showcase and explore the ways that National Geographic Explorers and researchers use communication to carry out their work, develop professional and personal relationships with others, and share their discoveries and research with the larger public.
The text showcases the best of communication theories and practices as well as explores how communication is central to carrying out work, developing professional and personal relationships with others, and sharing ideas with the larger ...
National Geographic explorer-in-residence Sylvia Earle spots crisis Alder, J., & Carmichael, M. (2005, January 20). The tsunami threat. Newsweek, p. 42. Best, J. (2001). Damned lies and statistics: Untangling numbers from the media, ...
INVITATION TO PUBLIC SPEAKING was designed to provide you with solid public speaking skills that will serve you well. This text shows you the power and importance of public speaking in your life as well as in the community.
Grounded in the rhetorical tradition while offering a fresh perspective, this text engages students in the public dialogue, encourages civic engagement and shows them that they will use these skills beyond the classroom.
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See, for example, Angela Browne, “Violence against Women by Male Partners: Prevalence, Outcomes and Policy Implications,” American Psychologist 48 (1993): 107741087; Angela Browne and Kirk R. Williams, “Gender, Intimacy, ...
For example, an invitation to lunch does more than just communicate the “message” (=thought/want/information) that the communicator wants to have lunch with the recipient. The invitation is also an action – a behavior that is done for ...
Lim, T., and Choi, S.H. (1996) Interpersonal Relationships in Korea, in W.B. Gudykunst, S. Ting-Toomey and T. Nishida (eds) Communication in Personal Relationships across Cultures. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Foss and Foss, Inviting Transformation, 1–19. 11. Griffin, Invitation to Public Speaking, 239–57. 12. Griffin, Invitation to Public Speaking, 323–25. 13. See “Types of Invitational Speeches” in Griffin, Invitation to Public Speaking, ...