Communication Skills: A Students' Companion

About the Book: The practical dimension of communication is often quickly grasped by students but theory is found tricky in various ways. This book therefore focuses purely on the theoretical dimensions of communication. It is very difficult to claim pure originality in communication theory but an effort has been made to explain the selected topics in a lucid student-friendly manner. As far as the selection of topics is concerned the syllabi of various universities have been referred to. The first three units focus on introducing communication in detail and its two major types – verbal and non-verbal. Each of the sub-types of non-verbal communication viz. proxemics paralanguage etc. would ideally demand one unit each. But that is out of the scope of such a companion. Out of four language acquisition skills – LSRW – only two have been taken up here: listening and reading. Interpersonal communication and teamwork carry such immense application in today’s workplace scenario that it deserves a place in a book dealing with fundamentals such as this one. About the Author: Mr. Parth Joshi is currently working as Assistant Professor Dept. of English Government Arts College Talaja (Bhavnagar) Gujarat and was formerly associated as an Assistant Professor with the Dept. of English Christ College Rajkot (Gujarat). He qualified his UGC-NET & GPSC in English at the first attempt read Niranjan Bhagats modern urban poetry for his MPhil dissertation and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the area of comparative aesthetics and poetics. A gold medalist during his masters Mr. Joshi has won prizes in Elocution and Debate competitions at University State and National level inter-college competitions. He was among the top 5 winners of the Times of India Public Speaking Contest for two consecutive years.