Book Title: Connecting and Relating: Why Interpersonal Communication Matters

Authors: Cameron W. Piercy; Michael Robert Dennis; and Maura D. Corder

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Connecting and Relating: Why Interpersonal Communication Matters helps readers examine their own one-on-one communicative interactions. This edited and remixed text incorporates the latest communication theory and research to help students navigate everyday interpersonal interactions. Chapters present key theories and concepts in interpersonal communication, including new chapters on information literacy and public speaking. The chapters in this book cover topics typically taught in an undergraduate interpersonal communication course: family interactions, language, listening, nonverbal communication, persuasion, and romantic relationships, while also presenting practical skills like information search and citation and public speaking. 

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Book Description

This text is an edited and remixed version of Interpersonal Communication: A Mindful Approach to Relationships by Wrench, Punyanunt-Carter, and Thweatt, Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy by Mapes, Problem Solving in Teams and Groups by Piercy, and several other open-access texts (cited at the end of each chapter.) Chapters present key theories and concepts in interpersonal communication, including new chapters on information literacy and public speaking. The chapters in this book cover topics typically taught in an undergraduate interpersonal communication course: family interactions, language, listening, nonverbal communication, persuasion, and romantic relationships, while also presenting practical skills like information search and citation and public speaking.

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This book is a cloned version of Interpersonal Communication by Jason S. Wrench, Narissra M. Punyanunt-Carter, and Katherine S. Thweatt, published using Pressbooks under a CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) license. It may differ from the original.

Authors

Cameron W. Piercy; Michael Robert Dennis; and Maura D. Corder

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Communication studies

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Title
Connecting and Relating: Why Interpersonal Communication Matters
Authors
Cameron W. Piercy; Michael Robert Dennis; and Maura D. Corder
Editors
Cameron W. Piercy; Michael Robert Dennis; and Maura D. Corder
Contributors
Jason S. Wrench; Narissra M. Punyanunt-Carter; and Katherine S. Thweatt
License

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Connecting and Relating: Why Interpersonal Communication Matters Copyright © by Cameron W. Piercy; Michael Robert Dennis; and Maura D. Corder is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Primary Subject
Communication studies
Institution
University of Kansas