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MindTap Speech, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Adler/Proctor's Looking Out, Looking In, 15th Edition

Ronald B. Adler, Russell F. Proctor II

  • Copyright 2017
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MindTap Speech, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Adler/Proctor's Looking Out, Looking In 15th Edition by Ronald B. Adler/Russell F. Proctor II
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MindTap Speech for Adler/Proctor’s Looking Out, Looking In, 15th Edition is the digital learning solution that powers students from memorization to mastery. It gives you complete control of your course—to provide engaging content, to challenge every individual, and to build their confidence. Empower students to accelerate their progress with MindTap. MindTap: Powered by You. MindTap gives you ownership of content and the learning experience. Customize the interactive syllabi, emphasize key topics, and add your own material to the eBook. Skills-based assignments help students analyze, apply and improve interpersonal skills, including listening, conflict, language, non-verbal communication and relationships. Concepts in Play enhance skills in areas such as empathy and intercultural communication competence.

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Meet the Authors

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Ronald B. Adler

Ron Adler is professor emeritus at Santa Barbara City College, where he developed programs in interpersonal communication, business and professional communication and communication theories. He has co-authored and edited several textbooks that address communication contexts and topics including interpersonal communication, small group communication, public speaking, assertiveness and social skills. In addition to writing and teaching, Professor Adler works with professional and business people to improve their communication on the job.

Russell F. Proctor II

Russell F. Proctor II is a professor at Northern Kentucky University, where he has taught since 1991. He primarily teaches courses in interpersonal communication, interviewing and communication pedagogy. In 1997 he won the university's Outstanding Professor Award. Professor Proctor is the author of numerous articles and textbooks focusing on interpersonal communication and communication education, with a particular interest in the use of feature films as instructional resources.

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  • MindTap® helps streamline your workflow with carefully curated content and a unique set of tools saving you valuable time in your course preparations. In addition, automatically grades assignments and quizzes while also providing students with instant feedback on their work.
  • Personalize relevant, skills-based assignments that guide students to analyze, apply and improve in key areas of the Interpersonal program including Listening, Conflict, Language, Non-Verbal Communication and Relationships.
  • Elevate students' communication competence with Concepts in Play that engage students through interactive games and video activities to experience, develop and enhance skills in empathy, diversity, dialectical tensions, and conflict.
  • Provide students with organizational and study tools designed to better manage their limited time, allowing them to complete assignments whenever and wherever they are ready to learn.
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  • Track students in real time with the Progress app adjust the course as needed based analytics of interactivity in the course.
  • With the MindTap® Mobile App, you can keep your students informed of assignments, course due dates, or any changes to your course while also arming them with on-the-go study tools like flashcards and quizzing.
  • Build and personalize your course by integrating your own content into the MindTap® Reader using your own documents or pull from sources like RSS feeds, YouTube videos, websites, Google Docs and more. Control what content students see and when they see it with a learning path that can be used as-is or matched to your syllabus exactly.
  • Empower students with the information to know where they stand at all times--both individually and compared to the highest performers in class within the student view of the Progress App.
  • Engage students with course material specially customized for them by you streamlined in one proven, easy-to-use interface.

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Engagement Activity –students answer a poll question about their thoughts or beliefs on the upcoming chapter content. And they can see how the whole class voted.

On the Job – students apply learning to real world business situations.

In Real Life Videos – present students with a communication skill or issue in real life, then prompts them to answer critical thinking questions.

Concepts in Play provide a full multimedia experience with in the reading, providing a different way to explore and practice challenging topics.

Skill Builders. Students develop and demonstrate the mastery of a skill.

Pause and Reflect activities ask students to synthesize what they are learning in the context of their own lives.

Chapter quizzes automatically test and grade student's mastery of concepts from the text and MindTap activities.

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  • ISBN-10: 130564512X
  • ISBN-13: 9781305645127
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