![]() ![]() This popular text motivates students to improve their interpersonal skills and sharpen their critical understanding of communication processes with diverse and compelling examples that illustrate how each student's communication skills impact both society and their own life. Used by more than a million readers, LOOKING OUT/LOOKING IN, Thirteenth Edition, continues its market-leading tradition of combining current scholarship and research with a reader-friendly voice that links course topics to students' everyday lives. As I wrote before, this is a decent textbook that holds quite useful information about communication. This might have been, because of the distractions that I have going on in my life right now, or because my professor in Interpersonal Communications had assigned quizzes and assignments for each chapter that had me trying to rush through the textbook. The reason I gave the book three stars instead of four, is because I sometimes (not often) struggled with staying focused on the book. ![]() Not unbearable to read, and it holds quite useful information about communication. This might have been, because of the distractions that I have going on in my life right now, or because my professor in Interpersonal Communications had assigned quizzes and assignments for each chapter that had me trying to rush through the Overall, this is a very decent textbook. ![]() I think this would be a good reference for anybody, but would serve as a great book for couples, fo I happened upon this text book while on vacation last week- what an interesting book! I happened upon this text book while on vacation last week- what an interesting book! For an academic textbook, it reads more like an enjoyable, informal informational guide about how to communicate, how different cultures interpret body language- plus it has exercises to assess communication skills, Dilbert cartoons (how can you go wrong w/Dilbert?) and a host of interesting charts and anecdotes. I don't understand how BYUI can approve and sale this book along with 1984 but you can't buy a good Vince Flynn, Ian Flemming or Brad Thor shoot em up spy thriller off of the shelves of the campus book store. Throughout the book there are many examples that explain how to do just that but of the thousands of scenarios and examples out there the author's repeatability used ones for mature audiences like comunicating clearly between lovers that sexual intercourse is consensual and stuff like that. ![]()
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