1st Edition
Communication Skills Teaching and Practice
The rapid advancement of communication technology fundamentally transformed how communication skills were taught across all educational levels during the 1980s. First published in 1988, Communication Skills: Teaching and Practice, the second of two volumes, examines in detail information on the structure of communication skills teaching at various academic and professional levels worldwide.
Preface
1. The importance of communication skills
Philip Hills and Margaret McLaren
2. Catering for information technology in tertiary education today
Herbert Dordick
3. Improving business communication with teleconferencing
Thomas Housel
4. Integrated services digital network (ISDN): is it worth the price of progress?
Thomas Housel
5. Teaching cross-cultural communication skill
Anne B. Pederson
6. Computer technology and communication for the disabled
Evan Lewis
7. Personal publishing
Tom Carney
8. The writing centre in the United States
Irene Lurkis Clark
9. Composition versus literarism
Philip Hobsbaum
10. Libraries and communication skills
Roy Adams
11. The database: an electronic information source for writers
Marie E. Flatley
Biography
Philip Hills and Margaret McLaren
