Effective communication : a guide to reading, writing, speaking, and listening

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Bibliographic Details
OCLC:3025500
Main Author: Dean, Howard H.
Language:English
Published: New York : Prentice-Hall, 1953.
Series:Prentice-Hall English composition and introduction to literature series.
Subjects:
Communication > Textbooks.
English language > Grammar > Problems, exercises, etc > Textbooks.
English language > Textbooks.
Communication.
English language > Grammar.
Related Items:Online version: Effective communication.
Format:

Monograph

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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Fundamental principles
  • The Nature and importance of communication
  • The purpose and the audience
  • The content of communication
  • Language as a medium of communication
  • Inductive thought and expression
  • Deductive thought and expression
  • Organizing and developing ideas
  • Part 2: Special skills
  • Reading and listening
  • Speaking
  • Group discussion
  • Problems in writing
  • Part 3: Information communication
  • Special problems in informative communication
  • The techniques of library study
  • Preparing the manuscript
  • Part 4: Opinion and persuasion
  • Rational persuasion-I
  • Rational persuasion-II-- Irrational persuasion
  • Part 5: Mass communication
  • Understanding the press
  • Radio, television, and motion pictures
  • Content analysis
  • Part 6: Standard English
  • The sentence: basic conventions
  • The sentence: structure and thought
  • The sentence: relationship of parts
  • Punctuation
  • Spelling and capitalization
  • Standard usage.

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