Open Educational Resources (OER): Top 5 COMMUNICATIE

Communication is key to your success—in relationships, in the workplace, as a citizen of your country, and across your lifetime. Your ability to communicate comes from experience, and experience can be an effective teacher, but this text and the related business communication course will offer you a wealth of experiences gathered from professional speakers across their lifetimes. You can learn from the lessons they’ve learned and be a more effective communicator right out of the gate.

Textbook designed for introductory college public speaking courses

Aimed at beginning college writers, this book is also useful for ESL, developmental, and "bridge" writers (high school to college), as well as for advanced writers. It is unique: very prescriptive for weak writers but "hands off" for advanced writers, self-paced, both teacher and student friendly, adaptable across the curriculum, and presented in question format. It is step-by-step for stronger writers but sentence-by-sentence for beginners.

Written by two nationally recognized experts in information strategy, this book leads students step-by-step through the information search and evaluation process for news and strategic communication message production. The book includes a conceptual model of the information strategy process, case studies to illustrate the process in action, and links to current examples throughout.