Communication Skills for Community College Students

Communication Skills for Community College Students was created to meet the needs of students enrolled in technical and career-oriented college programs, as well as workers already employed in business and industry. The primary focus of this text enables you to develop communication skills that will ensure your success on the job. This reader-friendly text is designed to provide you with a solid working understanding of communication that applies concepts, develops skills, and fosters creative applications. Communication Skills for Community College Students does all three in an engaging manner with a warm, understandable tone.

Communication Skills for Community College Students was created to meet the needs of students enrolled in technical and career-oriented college programs, as well as workers already employed in business and industry. The primary focus of this text enables you to develop communication skills that will ensure your success on the job. This reader-friendly text is designed to provide you with a solid working understanding of communication that applies concepts, develops skills, and fosters creative applications. Communication Skills for Community College Students does all three in an engaging manner with a warm, understandable tone. Two-year technical and community college students majoring in nursing, accounting, criminal justice, computer technologies, hospitality, graphic design or engineering are generally required to complete an oral communication course. Because you will learn in a diverse classroom setting and will be employed in many service sector jobs, you need instruction in practical communication skills to improve your performance both in the classroom and in the workplace. Concepts and skills presented in Communication Skills for Community College Students are readily applicable to the challenges of student life and career success. Those employed in business and industry will also find this text to be an informative resource for fine-tuning those communication skills that separate competent employees from exemplary employees.

Linda O’Connor taught in the Communication Skills Department at Waukesha County Technical College for 39 years. In addition to teaching courses in interpersonal communication, public speaking, composition, and business writing, Linda was the coordinator of WCTC’s Speech Lab. She also co-authored a text entitled Communication Skills for the World of Work along with Tom and Francisco and CASE for Communication, both published by Prentice Hall. Thomas Cheesebro has also been a faculty member at Waukesha County Technical College for 40 years, teaching courses in oral/interpersonal communication, public speaking, and workplace communication. He co-authored a text entitled Communication Skills for the World of Work and CASE for Communication, both published by Prentice Hall. Francisco Rios was a faculty member in the Communication Skills Department at Waukesha County Technical College for 13 years. He earned his doctorate degree and was employed as a professor of teacher education for nearly twenty years, first at California State University – San Marcos, then at the University of Wyoming. He currently serves as the Dean of the Woodring College of Education at Western Washington University. Besides co-authoring many other works, he served as co-author of Communication Skills for the World of Work, a Prentice Hall publication.