Full Description
An introduction to communication textbook for how instructors actually teach and students want to learn. Through teacher-informed organization, expert-written material, and applied challenges for today's students, Activate Your Superpower: Creating Compelling Communication covers the powers necessary for students to become superheroes in our current world. What's the point of learning if you're not making a difference?Written and ordered how the class is actually taught! Knowing speeches often start at the beginning of a semester, we've arranged the book to cover speech construction and delivery first and throughout the semester. Every chapter has additional, practical speaking "tips" for students to practice and understand how all aspects of communication can inform their public speaking skills/knowledge.
Current! Each chapter is written by an "expert" in that particular communication area. In other words, this is the current info taught in each communication subdiscipline. You know you're getting the best coverage because no one is writing on areas with which they're unfamiliar.
Accessible! Despite being written by experts, we crafted a textbook written in a conversational manner, making it accessible and entertaining (plenty of "dad" jokes and pop culture references included). And, of course, the more your students actually enjoy the material, the more likely they are to actually READ the textbook.
It's applied to engage! Nothing is introduced without a solid grounding in the practical realities of student-lives. We challenge students to take the material beyond the classroom. All chapters include "activism" boxes with ideas for putting superpower-level skills to use in the real world around them today.
Here's to embracing our superpowers as instructors and helping our students discover their own!
Includes access to the KHQ, a user-friendly app available on the iTunes and Google Play store that gives instructors and students access to hundreds of terms and test questions from the author. In addition, instructors have the opportunity to upload their own questions based on their curriculum. This unprecedented combination of customization and expert-provided content provides endless possibilities for students and instructors.
Contents
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: INTRO TO THE COMMUNICATION PROCESS (Ribarsky & Eckstein)
CHAPTER 2: PLANNING AND ORGANIZING SPEECHES (Scholten)
CHAPTER 3: VERBAL AND VISUAL SUPPORT (Ribarsky, Luce, & Eckstein)
CHAPTER 4: DELIVERY (Cherry & Eckstein)
CHAPTER 5: ENGAGING IN PERCEPTIONS (Munz)
CHAPTER 6: DEVELOPING AND PRESENTING SELF (Eckstein)
CHAPTER 7: LANGUAGE (Murphy)
CHAPTER 8: NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION (Withers)
CHAPTER 9: LISTENING (Wiss)
CHAPTER 10: INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION (Brule)
CHAPTER 11: ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS (Ribarsky)
CHAPTER 12: SMALL GROUP COMMUNICATION (Hammonds, Ribarsky, & Eckstein)
CHAPTER 13: ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION (Papa & Papa)
CHAPTER 14: CULTURAL COMMUNICATION (Eckstein)
CHAPTER 15: MEDIATED COMMUNICATION (Sochay)
References
Contributor Bios: Roster of Superheroes!
