Communicate! [with MindTap Speech 1-Term Access Code]

by Rudolph F. Verderber, Kathleen S. Verderber, Deanna D. Sellnow

This is a text for basic speech communication courses covering interpersonal and small group communication as well as public speaking. The entire book has been heavily revised and edited in this sixth edition.

Genres: Textbooks, Nonfiction

452 pages, Unbound

First published January 1, 1975

Reviews

[Daughter of Paper and Stone · Rating 4 out of 5]

Preface

In the world of college textbooks this little bundle of expensive information -that I could google -was not bad.

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RATINGS:

Knowledge: 3.5 📜📜📜💫

A great amount of knowledge

(Even if you have communicated with other people before; the book gives some brand new insights in the world of verbal and nonverbal language. It is interesting to see how cultures vary. Even more interesting noticing the things in all the countries I have visited/lived that I never acknowledged before. There were a moment were I stopped and went…
”wait a minute. That is true! How didn’t I ever acknowledge that before?”)

Complexity: 2 🧘🏼‍♀️🧘🏼‍♀️

Dipped half my body

(It was so easy to understand and while some aspects might be complex for people who never studied linguistics or communications, the book doesn’t make you feel dumb about it.)

Interest: 2.5 🧚🏻‍♀️🧚🏻‍♀️💫

A full cup of interest

(Might have been more if I had not been forced to read it because of a class. Books tend to lose allure when you are forced to endure them).

Overall star rating : 3.5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

It was good, it was almost great.

[David Gallagher · Rating 4 out of 5]

When I told my partner I got this book from the school library he told me a story about Verderben and how he sued one of my partner's college professors for plagiarism. Verderben takes what he does very seriously and is one ruthless man.

But I admire him nonetheless. Communicate! is a book I consider to be containing anything anyone would ever want/need to know about communication. The chapters are clearly divided, it has photos, comic strips, tables and models which work as visual additions, and it has exercises, "tests" and group projects which I found very useful, especially in the case of using this book as a textbook for class.

However, in certain cases it tends to be too detailed and specific knowledge in it is abundant and difficult to memorize. But otherwise, an excellent work.

[T.L. Hicks · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got the 2nd edition of this book.

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was a half-way decent college textbook. They made attempts to be funny and inserted witty little comic strips that portrayed the point they were trying to get across. This book was informative, I learned from it, but at the same time, some of the information they gave me was a little redundant. I think that I know the meaning of "pitch" and "tone" and don't need them to be vocabulary words. I did get the most kicks out of reading their words and definitions. I only read the chapters that I was assigned, so it wasn't breathtakingly amazing. Can't say that I would recommend this book though.

*Taken from my book reviews blog: http://reviewsatmse.blogspot.com/2008...

[Haytham Badawey · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book provides a good explanation for all processes of human communication. The key terms are well defined in the margin, the key ideas are highlighted and well explaned. The end of chapter has additional sources for further reading, including movies and websites, etc. The only thing that annoys me is that the font of the book is too small, which hamper the reading, and also the books contains lots of useless pictures and very few illustrations.

[Jasmyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read for class ... noting exciting.

[Noman]

no thing

[Marcela Lacouture]

me parece un libro muy interesante