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Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Graphic Design and Print Production Fundamentals
Graphic Communications Open Textbook Collective · BCCampus
This textbook addresses the many steps of creating and then producing physical, printed, or other imaged products that people interact with on a daily basis. It covers the concept that, while most modern graphic design is created on computers using design software, the ideas and concepts don’t stay on the computer. The ideas need to be completed in the computer software, then progress to an imaging (traditionally referred to as printing) process.
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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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How to be a Journalist in the 21st century
Andre Gouws and NWU students · North-West University
In the contents: 02: The Mass Media and Mass Communication
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Language in Action: An Open Invitation to Linguistic Anthropology (remixed by Debbie Klein)
Debbie Klein · Gavilan College
In the contents: 3.01: Theory of Non-Verbal Communication- Important Concepts · 3.02: Theory of Verbal Communication- Important Concepts
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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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SPA 003: Quarter Abroad En Argentina
Daniela Cerbino, Paloma Fernández Mira, Ana María Ortega Pérez, and Claudia Sánchez Gutiérrez · University of California, Davis
This SPA 003 textbook that is an introduction to Spanish grammar and development of all language skills in a cultural context with special emphasis on communication. These curricula were developed around a series of context-specific readers created by our graduate students and faculty; the course grammar and vocabulary were taken directly from these readers so that students could see content in context, and course activities from reading/culture workshops to writing practice were also designed.
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Care Navigation of Older Adults
(Whatcom Community College · LibreTexts
This course will explore care coordination and navigation with older adults. An overview of the aging process will be discussed. Topics will focus on individual and family centered care issues, communication and health literacy, working with interdisciplinary teams, chronic conditions, prevention, transitions, and resource referral.
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La roommate fantasma
Diego Alins Breda, Angelica María González Bastida, Jonathan Mulki, and Ana María Ortega Pérez · University of California, Davis
This SPA 003 textbook that is an introduction to Spanish grammar and development of all language skills in a cultural context with special emphasis on communication. These curricula were developed around a series of context-specific readers created by our graduate students and faculty; the course grammar and vocabulary were taken directly from these readers so that students could see content in context, and course activities from reading/culture workshops to writing practice were also designed.
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Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Debbie Klein · Gavilan College
Today’s 21st century world is changing at a breathtaking pace! We are connecting with people, ideas, and systems at intensifying speeds. Communication technologies and economic activities are linking people instantaneously across the globe. In this course, we explore how anthropology helps us understand and engage today’s diverse and complex world as we move through it. We also explore how each of us is empowered to create positive change in and beyond our communities.
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Information and Entropy
Paul Penfield, Jr. · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In the contents: 06: Communications · 6.09: Detail- Communication System Requirements · 13.09: Quantum Communication
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Languages and Worldview
Manon Allard-Kropp · University of Missouri–St. Louis
In the contents: 1.06: Human Language Compared with the Communication Systems of Other Species · 2.01: Theory of Non-Verbal Communication- Important Concepts · 2.02: Theory of Verbal Communication- Important Concepts
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Exploring Public Speaking 4e
Kris Barton & Barbara G. Tucker · Florida State University & University of Georgia
In the contents: 3.01: Sources of Ethical Stances on Communication and Public Speaking
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Stand up, Speak out - The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking
LibreTexts
Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking features two key themes. First it focuses on helping students become more seasoned and polished public speakers, and second is its emphasis on ethics in communication. It is this practical approach and integrated ethical coverage that sets Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking apart from the other texts in this market. COMPILE DATE: 11/2024
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COMS 105: Fundamentals of Public Speaking
Tammera Stokes Rice · College of the Canyons
In the contents: 1.2: Models of Communication · 1.3: Elements of the Communication Process · 3.1: Classifying Communication Apprehension (CA)
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It’s About Them - Public Speaking in the 21st Century
Sara Kim, Douglas Marshall, June Pulliam, Victoria VanNest, and James Yeargain · LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
In the contents: 2.02: What is Communication Apprehension · 5.05: Mass Communication and Ethics
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SPA 001: Mi primer año en Davis
Diego Alins Breda, Alessandra Di Rienzo, Emily Frankel, and Claudia Sánchez Gutiérrez · University of California, Davis
This SPA 001 textbook that is an introduction to Spanish grammar and development of all language skills in a cultural context with special emphasis on communication. These curricula were developed around a series of context-specific readers created by our graduate students and faculty; the course grammar and vocabulary were taken directly from these readers so that students could see content in context, and course activities from reading/culture workshops to writing practice were also designed.
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Medical Assistant - Introduction to Clinical Skills
Karrie Stanfill · Colorado Mesa University
This textbook introduces essential clinical nursing skills focused on infection prevention and patient assessment. Topics include infection control, hand hygiene, PPE, aseptic technique, and environmental safety, along with core patient-care skills such as communication and measuring vital signs including blood pressure, pulse, temperature, respiratory rate, and oxygen saturation.
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Psych-222: Multicultural Psychology
Jennifer Ounjian · Contra Costa College
This course will provide students with a broad general understanding of many of the common topics in social psychology, such as relationships between social behavior and good attitudes, self-concept, mass communication, and group process. In addition, culture and ethnicity issues will be integrated into each topical area. Specific comparisons of the social experience of racial and ethnic groups in the United States of America will provide the foundation for lectures and discussions.
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Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy
Meggie Mapes · University of Kansas
Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy is a contemporary, interdisciplinary public speaking textbook that fuses rhetoric, critical/cultural studies, and performance to offer an up-to-date resource for students. With a focus on advocacy, this textbook invites students to consider public speaking as a political, purposeful form of information-sharing.