Communication Studies: The Essential Resource (Essentials) - Softcover

This book brings together a huge range of material including academic articles, film scripts and interplanetary messages adrift on space probes with supporting commentary to clarify their imporatance to the field. Communication Studies: The Essential Resource is a collection of essays and texts for all those studying communication at university and pre-university level.

Individual sections address:

* texts and meanings in communication
* themes in personal communication
* communication practice
* culture, communication and context
* debates and controversies in communication.

Edited by the same teachers and examiners who brought us AS Communication Studies: The Essential Introduction, this volume will help communications students to engage with the subject successfully. Its key features include:

* suggested further activities at the end of each chapter
* a glossary of key terms
* a comprehensive bibliography with web resources.

Andrew Beck is principal lecturer in applied communication at Coventry School of Art and Design.

Peter D. Bennett, Ph.D., is associate dean and professor of marketing at the Frank & Mary Jean Smeal College of Business Administration at The Pennsylvania State University.