Interpersonal Communication Reader

Offering popular and scholarly selections, this reader helps students better understand concepts in interpersonal communication and offers practical advice to facilitate more effective communication. The Interpersonal Communication Reader features brief, engaging selections on topics ranging from basic principles of interpersonal communication, verbal and nonverbal messages, and interpersonal relationships, to topics that are rarely covered in depth in traditional textbooks, such as feedback, gossip, and apologies. Emphasizing the practical skills of interpersonal communication and relationships, the selections also highlight the theoretical and research foundations on which these skills rest and include a variety of learning aids to make them interactive experiences for students.DeVito, Joseph A. is the author of 'Interpersonal Communication Reader', published 2001 under ISBN 9780321083524 and ISBN 0321083520.