Speech Communication Workbook An Activity Based Approach

As experienced instructors, Nan Hall and Karol Walchak know that face-to-face communication plays a fundamental role in the successful classroom. Now they have written an innovative workbook that can augment any primary text in the speech communication classroom. Speech Communication Workbook provides anextensive number of activities and exercises that allow students not only to understand the theory but also put into practice the concepts they are taught.

Using attention-grabbing exercises (like asking students to imagine they have just crash-landed their spaceships on the moon), the authors guide students through essential skills, like coming to consensus, while truly listening to others’ points of view. Most activities are completed in small groups and encourage lots of face-to-face interaction among students. For those who worry that, in the age of digital connectivity, we have actually become disconnected from one another, Speech Communication Workbook offers a way forward that acknowledges the importance of all forms of communication.

Nan M. Hall earned her B.A. from Michigan State University and her M.A. from Central Michigan University. A longtime participant in both professional and semi-professional theater, she is also a retired fulltime instructor in the Language, Arts, and Humanities department at Alpena Community College in Alpena, Michigan.

Karol L. Walchak earned her B.A. (CSU Bakersfield) and M.A. (CSU Sacramento) from the California State University, and her Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Reno. She is a permanent fulltime instructor in the Language, Arts, and Humanities department at Alpena Community College in Alpena, Michigan, where she teaches a range of English classes and also serves as an instructor for speech and public communication.

Ms. Hall and Dr. Walchak have collaborated over the past eleven years, developing and enhancing the active student learning model in the communication classroom.

Ice Breakers 

Chapter One: “The Fundamentals”

Chapter Two: “Understanding Self and Perception”

Chapter Three: “Listening”

Chapter Four: “Verbal Communication”

Chapter Five: “Nonverbal Communication”

Chapter Six: “Interpersonal Relationships and Conflict”

Appendix

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