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Communication between Cultures
Larry A. Samovar, Richard E. Porter, Edwin R. Mcdaniel, Carolyn S. Roy · Cengage Learning · 2015
This best selling intercultural communication text gives readers an understanding and appreciation of different cultures and helps them develop practical skills for improving their communication with people from other cultures.
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Technical Communication
Chelsea Milbourne, Anne Regan, Morgan Livingston, and Sadie Johann · California Polytechnic State University
In the contents: 01: Introduction to Technical Communications · 1.01: What Is Technical Communication
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Communication Beginnings - An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners
Della Jean Abrahams · Portland State University
This textbook is designed for beginning-intermediate English language learners. It is composed of 7 chapters, each of which covers specific speaking and listening learning objectives and includes dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities. Each chapter includes listening and speaking components such as dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities.
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Writing and Literature - Composition as Inquiry, Learning, Thinking, and Communication
Tanya Long Bennett · University of North Georgia
Writing and Literature builds a new conversation covering various genres of literature and writing. Students learn the various writing styles appropriate for analyzing, addressing, and critiquing these genres including poetry, novels, dramas, and research writing. The text and its pairing of helpful visual aids throughout emphasizes the importance of critical reading and analysis in producing a successful composition.
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Open Technical Communication
Tiffani Reardon, Tammy Powell, Jonathan Arnett, Monique Logan, & Cassie Race · Kennesaw State University
In the contents: 01: Introduction to Technical Communication · 3.02: Faulty Communication and Real Consequences
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Technical Writing Essentials: Introduction to Professional Communications in the Technical Fields
Suzan Last · University of Victoria · 2019
This open textbook is designed to introduce readers to the basics of technical communication: audience and task analysis in workplace contexts, clear and concise communications style, effective document design, teamwork and collaboration, and fundamental research skills.
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Writing and Literature: Composition as Inquiry, Learning, Thinking, and Communication
Tanya Bennet · University of North Georgia Press · 2017
In the age of Buzzfeeds, hashtags, and Tweets, students are increasingly favoring conversational writing and regarding academic writing as less pertinent in their personal lives, education, and future careers. Writing and Literature: Composition as Inquiry, Learning, Thinking and Communication connects students with works and exercises and promotes student learning that is kairotic and constructive. Dr. Tanya Long Bennett, professor of English at the University of North Georgia, poses questions that encourage active rather than passive learning. Furthering ideas presented in Contribute a Verse: A Guide to First-Year Composition as a complimentary companion, Writing and Literature builds a new conversation covering various genres of literature and writing. Students learn the various writing styles appropriate for analyzing, addressing, and critiquing these genres including poetry, novels, dramas, and research writing. The text and its pairing of helpful visual aids throughout emphasizes the importance of critical reading and analysis in producing a successful composition. Writing and Literature is a refreshing textbook that links learning, literature, and life.
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Rhetorical Communities: Understanding Language, Power, and Communication Across Contexts
Leigh Meredith; Phil Choong; Melisa Garcia · Leigh Meredith, Phil Choong, and Melisa Garcia · 2025
Rhetorical Communities guides students in analyzing and engaging with the practices, values, and expectations that shape communication within different communities. Beginning with foundational concepts of rhetoric and discourse community theory, the text progresses through genre analysis, audience and context, composing processes, collaboration, and ethical considerations, while highlighting how identity and power influence discourse. Emphasizing real-world examples and community contexts, this book helps students understand and participate in rhetorical practices across academic, professional, and civic settings.
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Green Tea Intermediate English Communication OER
Eric Dodson; Luciana Diniz; Nanci Leiton · Open Oregon Educational Resources · 2020
This set of multimedia materials incorporates interesting topics and real-world language in an accessible way for adult English language learners at the low-to-mid intermediate level, using eclectic methods (communicative activities, content-based instruction lite, focus on form), all while maintaining a connection to our learners’ lives. Each unit has handouts, presentation slides, key vocabulary lists, informative speeches recorded by ESOL teachers at PCC, dialogs, extension activities, and additional videos or materials for assessment. The videos can be linked to directly, embedded in a class page or Learning Management System (LMS, such as Canvas), or downloaded. Closed captioned versions of the videos are also available. Teachers can incorporate everything here, or take an a la carte approach with their existing activities and curricula. To make it easier to navigate these materials, we are gathering them in a pressbooks site as well. That site may make it easier for teachers to navigate and share links with students. Like any set of classroom materials, this OER is not a “class in a box.” We anticipate that teachers will have their own approach to in-class (or synchronous online) activities, out-of-class work, assessments, and speeches, so we’re not offering a one-size-fits-all solution. These materials are openly shared (with the exception of youtube videos, where noted), which means you have all the permission you need to use, adapt, and re-share them. All we ask is to attribute the materials to “Green Tea Communication OER,” and, if you have a moment, let us know if you found the materials helpful. Please let us know if you have feedback, questions, or additional contributions to this project: eric.dodson@pcc.edu, luciana.diniz@pcc.edu and nleiton@pcc.edu
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Howdy or Hello?: Technical and Professional Communications
Matt McKinney; Kalani Pattison; Sarah LeMire; Kathy Anders · Texas A&M University · 2021
Technical writing courses introduce you to some of the most important aspects of writing in the worlds of science, technology, and business—in other words, the kind of writing that scientists, nurses, doctors, computer specialists, government officials, engineers, and other professionals do as a part of their regular work. The skills learned in technical writing courses can be useful in other fields as well, including education and social sciences.
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Communication Beginnings: An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners
Della Abrahams · Portland State University Library · 2017
This textbook is designed for beginning-intermediate English language learners. It is composed of 7 chapters, each of which covers specific speaking and listening learning objectives and includes dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities. Each chapter includes listening and speaking components such as dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities. Each chapter also focuses on 10 target words from the New General Service List of English vocabulary. The textbook includes an audio component that consists of recorded conversations of native and non-native English speakers, as well as links to additional listening resources on the web.
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Oral Communication for Non-Native Speakers of English
Agata Guskaroska; Erik Goodale; Timothy Kochem; Monica Ghosh · Iowa State University · 2025
This book is an essential instructional tool for developing oral communication skills in academic settings, specifically designed for international graduate students, teaching assistants, postdoctoral researchers, and those preparing to enter academia. The second edition introduces dedicated chapters on developing listening, speaking, and pronunciation. Through its wide array of interactive online activities, suitable for both classroom teaching and individual practice, learners can actively develop the skills needed for success in English-speaking academic environments.
Business Result: Upper-intermediate Student's Book (2nd ed.)
Michael Duckworth, John Hughes &Rebecca Turner · Oxford University Press · 2018
Business Result Second Edition offers business professionals more communication and language practice than ever before, helping students develop relevant communication skills they can use immediately in the workplace.
Business Result Pre-intermediate (2nd ed.)
David Grant, Jane Hudson, John Hughes · Oxford University Press · 2018
Business Result Second Edition offers business professionals more communication and language practice than ever before, helping students develop relevant communication skills they can use immediately in the workplace.
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Writing for Success
Rebecca Weaver Ed. · Georgia State University
Writing well is difficult, we get it. It's hard to put your thoughts into text, but it is essential to success, not only in school but in life. Communication is essential in every career field. To know something is great, but it doesn't help anyone but you, until you can share that knowledge with others. That is the essence of communication.
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A Theory of Literate Action - Literate Action II
Charles Bazerman · University of California, Santa Barbara
The second in a two-volume set, A Theory of Literate Action draws on work from the social sciences—and in particular sociocultural psychology, phenomenological sociology, and the pragmatic tradition of social science—to "reconceive rhetoric fundamentally around the problems of written communication rather than around rhetoric's founding concerns of high stakes, agonistic, oral public persuasion".
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PRJ 2000: Newswriting for Public Relations
Joel Whitaker · Prince George's Community College
In the contents: 07: Corporate Communications · 7.01: Corporate Communications · 7.03: Internal Communication
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People and Places: An Intermediate Integrated-Skills Module for English Learners
Sara Ferguson · Grossmont Community College
This module has materials to learn and practice all of the necessary language skills at the intermediate level in college. It is recommended for the first few weeks of a semester, since it covers fundamental sentence grammar and basic email communication etiquette. Academic language skills you will practice include reading, writing, listening, speaking, vocabulary, grammar, and rhetorical analysis.
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The Tongue and Quill
US Air Force · LibreTexts
In the contents: 1.1: What Do We Mean by Communication · 1.2: Communication Teamwork and Leadership · 1.3: Principles of Effective Communication
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Technical and Report Writing
Amber Kinonen, Joseph Mold, Edie Erickson, Shawn Curtin · Bay College Library
In the contents: 1.9: Cultural Communication · 2.9: Legal Issues and Communication · 4.7: When is E-mail the Appropriate Form of Communication to Use