tag:open.umn.edu,2005:/opentextbooks/textbooks?commit=Go&page=12&term=communication&utf8=%E2%9C%93Open Textbook Library - Search results for "communication"2020-09-27T01:44:41Zhttps://open.umn.edu/assets/common/favicon/favicon-1594c2156c95ca22b1a0d803d547e5892bb0e351f682be842d64927ecda092e7.icohttps://open.umn.edu/assets/library/otl_logo-f9161d5c999f5852b38260727d49b4e7d7142fc707ec9596a5256a778f957ffc.png9142020-09-27T01:44:41Z2024-01-22T14:52:12ZParenting and Family Diversity Issues<img alt="Read more about Parenting and Family Diversity Issues" title="Parenting and Family Diversity Issues cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="458" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTU4MiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--03f3d0cb00bcd8275d2678e905fbeae39c9d203c/familyparet.png" />This book has been created for students and all individuals who work with children and families (e.g., educators, parents, caregivers, direct support workers, etc.) in diverse contexts. It is imperative to understand how and what factors may influence child outcomes across the lifespan. Therefore, key concepts related to parenting, child-rearing, care-giving, and parenting education are outlined in this textbook to provide historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives across vast settings and developmental domains.9102020-09-08T17:36:31Z2024-01-22T14:52:37ZTransitions to Professional Nursing Practice - 2nd Edition<img alt="Read more about Transitions to Professional Nursing Practice - 2nd Edition" title="Transitions to Professional Nursing Practice - 2nd Edition cover image" class="cover " width="200" height="256" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTUxOSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--c99c19b8e67b350375265f7d59813bfc6cfa6f8e/Nurstransi.PNG" />Transitions to Professional Nursing Practice provides a pivotal learning experience for students transitioning from an associate degree education to a baccalaureate degree. Content includes a broad overview of the nursing profession, the role of accrediting and professional organizations with a strong focus on the American Nurses Association’s foundational documents. The competencies of the Standards of Professional Practice and the Code of Ethics are weaved throughout the text. Topics covered in this text include professional nursing practice, baccalaureate education, healthcare in the 21st century, autonomy and accountability, nursing philosophy, professional development, communication, interprofessional collaboration, critical thinking, introduction to evidence-based practice, and nursing leadership and theory.9092020-08-28T05:28:31Z2024-01-22T14:52:12ZOpen-Source Property: A Free Casebook<img alt="Read more about Open-Source Property: A Free Casebook" title="Open-Source Property: A Free Casebook cover image" class="cover " width="619" height="606" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTQ2MCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--f6f42220209af964e342d1812b306ea634366867/Capture.PNG" />Open Source Property: A Free Casebook is a free resource for instructors and students of the first-year Property Law course at American law schools, and anyone else with an interest in the subject.9022020-08-06T20:04:10Z2024-01-22T14:52:11ZSucceeding at Your Internship: A Handbook Written for and with Students<img alt="Read more about Succeeding at Your Internship: A Handbook Written for and with Students" title="Succeeding at Your Internship: A Handbook Written for and with Students cover image" class="cover " width="670" height="845" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTMzMiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--1e08f9667910ee9707d64ed5e6bfffda5984a68b/Title.PNG" />There are several textbooks for students whose majors include internships in human services, broadly defined, such as case management, counseling, criminal justice, and social work. Most of these books are written in an academic format. Typically, it involves an introduction to a theoretical orientation that concerns working with others followed by a series of chapters devoted to learning professional skills associated with a given discipline. This approach is fine, as far as it goes, but also has two drawbacks. One is that the texts are usually sold by main stream publishers, which means they are expensive. Another is that they seldom address what might be described as the experiential dimension of the internship that most beginners face on their own. This new book addresses both concerns. The fact that it is offered as a free text addresses the first issue, of course, but the second one requires a new approach. It began with asking students to talk about what they experienced when going through their first internship and what they would tell others about how to make it a successful one. That work led to a structured narrative about basic practical topics, such as finding an internship, getting started there, making effective use of supervision, understanding ethics, appreciating cultural diversity, becoming competent, and completing the internship. The text includes descriptions, suggestions, and exercises. It may be used as either a primary course text or, due to its relative brevity, a supplemental one. Although the lead editor is an experienced clinician and professor who has supervised internships for a variety of human services majors over many years, the book was written with and for students to make it more readable and more useful.8822020-07-12T17:34:47Z2024-01-22T14:52:10ZNew Media Futures<img alt="Read more about New Media Futures" title="New Media Futures cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="453" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTI0MywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--6518782d43781a8625210fdd7f2400896eed09df/newmediafture.jpg" />This book is intended for use in a large introductory class in new media in a program that covers the “full-stack” including critical/cultural studies, media management, diffusion of innovation, and synthetic media production. The first half of this basic sequence covered new media and democracy, finance, intellectual property law, basic games, and transmedia. The second half of the sequence covers many topics related to aesthetics, design, technology, and methodology. To that end, this book needed to be written so that it would be helpful for many different professors and trajectories of study. This book is in neither engineering, social science, nor the humanities, but also all of those. At the same time, this is a program in the Communication Studies and Media Studies traditions of the United States and that texture will come across.8682020-07-05T17:54:21Z2024-01-22T14:52:07ZTechnical Theatre Practicum - Version 1<img alt="Read more about Technical Theatre Practicum - Version 1" title="Technical Theatre Practicum - Version 1 cover image" class="cover " width="652" height="844" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTE5MiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--c0b80f3ff4f7a6cc9b4fde2567ddf3b33c00aa09/theatreprac.png" />Welcome to the exciting world of technical theatre. Studying this topic can lead to many different careers in several different sectors of the economy. The general skills needed for any of the careers or sectors have many things in common. Workers need to be dead-line oriented, as most productions have firm timelines that cannot be altered. Critical thinking and analysis are much needed skills. Almost every project in the field is unique and technicians and designers alike must discover the best way of reaching a project’s goal. Creative problem solving is trait successful practitioners have in common. With every project being unique, there are no guaranteed solutions to the problems that are presented. Technicians draw on their vast experience of what worked in the past that can be adapted to be a solution to the current problems. Clear communication and collaboration round out the necessary skills. No technical theatre project is ever handled by one person on their own. Collaboration with many people is the norm, and successful collaboration requires clear written and verbal communication skills.8472020-06-25T21:09:21Z2024-01-22T14:52:22ZVaccine Practice for Health Professionals - 1st Canadian Edition<img alt="Read more about Vaccine Practice for Health Professionals - 1st Canadian Edition" title="Vaccine Practice for Health Professionals - 1st Canadian Edition cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="453" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTA5OCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--c7b275fb071ee99bec3abb974c8991399b150426/vaccine-practice-front-350x453.jpg" />This open access textbook is intended to guide best practices in vaccine delivery in Canada. This resource is designed for students in post-secondary health profession programs, including nursing. It may also be useful for graduate students and healthcare providers. This textbook provides information related to clinical practice, including the administration of vaccine, and communication with clients.8412020-06-25T16:39:52Z2024-01-22T14:52:07ZLinguistics for Teachers of English<img alt="Read more about Linguistics for Teachers of English" title="Linguistics for Teachers of English cover image" class="cover " width="422" height="675" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTA4OSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--0fb70f5382fe5534531f18bc95db6ab45a7e980c/lingusitics-teacher-eng.png" />The primary goals of this text are to acquaint prospective teachers of English with certain aspects of the history, structure, and use of the English Language. Through considering the nature of the English language; how language and culture are interconnected as well as how it is acquired and how and why it changes, readers will come to a fuller understanding of sociolinguistics. This text discusses the nature of language, as well as how it is acquired; how and why languages change, and how the English language in particular has changed (and continues to change); why different varieties of English have developed, and why they continue to be used; how linguists have attempted to account for the (ir)regularities of English; how language and culture are related; and how linguistics can be used as a tool in the classroom. This text presents important topics for English teachers to know: the relationship between “standard” and “nonstandard” dialects, how and why language varies, how we can make informed decisions about what is “right” and “wrong” in language use, and generally how a sound knowledge of how language works can inform and benefit the pedagogical strategies needed to develop as a teacher. Ultimately, I want readers to think about language in ways not thought of before: objectively, passionately, critically, analytically, and logically. This allows readers to move beyond memorization of facts to original thought (which is sort of like the difference between knowing how to add and subtract, and being able to balance a checkbook).8282022-12-06T21:41:38Z2024-03-11T13:29:05ZTechnical Writing and Simple Statistics : for laboratory classes<img alt="Read more about Technical Writing and Simple Statistics : for laboratory classes" title="Technical Writing and Simple Statistics : for laboratory classes cover image" class="cover " width="1700" height="2200" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDMzNSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--4bd08854e1aa7079faa722cb6896ecf651953f2f/20221116%20TRAILS_Wettstein_Cover.jpg" />This upper division resource focuses on how to communicate results through technical writing, use Excel to perform simple statistics, and create professional charts/documents. Excel tutorials are provided for performing descriptive statistics, t-tests, and linear regression as well as using text boxes, formatting figures and captions, and using Equation Editor to insert equations. Additionally, guidance and examples of different communication components are provided along with team writing strategies and guidelines on how to hold efficient meetings. This textbook was designed for Biology and Chemistry majors for a 400 level course.8042020-05-01T00:00:00Z2024-01-22T14:52:10ZMoving Pictures: An Introduction to Cinema<img alt="Read more about Moving Pictures: An Introduction to Cinema" title="Moving Pictures: An Introduction to Cinema cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="525" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTk4LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--e71baea70f4faa11f874b0cecbd06c2789ba4b42/cover-350x525.jpg" />Textbook for 1000- level Communication course: Introduction to Films Studies
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