This new edition of the best-selling text has been fully revised and updated to take into account new developments in communication and media studies. More Than Words provides an introduction to both communication theory and practice. The authors cover essential elements of communication, including communication between individuals and groups, in organizations and through mass media and new technologies. The fourth edition features: new case studies and assignments an updated series of key questions helping students to understand central concepts in communication studies expanded sections on mass media and on practical communication and media skills guidance on listening skills, interpersonal and social skills, writing skills, leaflet design, and planning, scripting, and producing audio and video material. More Than Words is illustrated with new models and photographs and has checklist summaries for easy revision purposes. Clear and practical, it is an essential text for students of communication studies.

We learn most of our communication skills without consciously working at them. "Teaching Communication" sets out what those skills are and suggests ways of developing them This book should be of interest to teachers of communication studies.

This new edition of the best-selling text has been fully revised and updated to take into account new developments in communication and media studies. More Than Words provides an introduction to both communication theory and practice. The authors cover essential elements of communication, including communication between individuals and groups, in organizations and through mass media and new technologies.

The fourth edition features:

• new case studies and assignments
• an updated series of key questions helping students to understand central concepts in communication studies
• expanded sections on mass media and on practical communication and media skills
• guidance on listening skills, interpersonal and social skills, writing skills, leaflet design, and planning, scripting, and producing audio and video material.

More Than Words is illustrated with new models and photographs and has checklist summaries for easy revision purposes. Clear and practical, it is an essential text for students of communication studies.

This is the ideal text for students taking courses in interpersonal communication. It draws together all the main strands in communication theory to illustrate communication processes in action. This new edition fully reflects recent changes in communication syllabuses and includes more material on intracultural/intercultural communication, gender and communication, discourse and textual analysis and emotional intelligence. Extensive use of questions, case studies and examples shows students how to relate the theory to common experiences of communication, while suggestions for further reading enable them to widen their knowledge of the field.