(Part 2) Best communication improvement books according to redditors
We found 229 Reddit comments discussing the best communication improvement books. We ranked the 81 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
>"Why bother preserving something nobody wants to speak?" is a question I often hear in relation to these languages.
And the answer to this question, which the post fails to address, is that it is not that people do not want to learn their language, it's that they were denied the opportunity to do so. I can't count the number of people I've met who would give anything to have had their parent pass on the language to them. But that didn't happen due to the now well known assimilation policies and boarding schools, and now the adult non-speaker is ashamed and angry, and their fluent speaker parent is ashamed and angry, and it's an emotional situation, and these languages are fucking hard to learn.
I wish the author would have done a bit more research (all of their links are to their own posts or broken) and at least had a couple of sentences that answer why there are people who devote themselves to learning their endangered heritage language.
There are great chapters by adult learners of endangered languages in Leanne Hinton's book Bringing Our Languages Home, for example.
There is a whole subfield devoted to the history of composition. You can find bibliographies devoted that history on the website of the National Council of Teachers of English / Conference on College Composition and Communication. For one excellent recent book, check out Ryan Skinnell's Conceding Composition: A Crooked History of Composition's Institutional Fortunes: https://www.amazon.com/Conceding-Composition-Compositions-Institutional-Fortunes-ebook/dp/B01JA2XX2A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1509787630&sr=8-1&keywords=Conceding+Composition%3A+A+Crooked+History+of+Composition%27s+Institutional+Fortunes (but there are many more).
I think it’s less that they’re wrong and more that they empathize individual responsibility over other factors, to the point that they dismiss external factors when assessing individual outcomes.
It was a simple framework that I thought up on the spot, so of course it’s pretty reductive and over-simplified.
A good further reading is
The Three Languages of Politics
The author makes a good argument for how various political leanings are established where:
Liberty leaning people view the world through opposing forces of freedom and coercion
Progressives see the world as a battle between the oppressor and oppressed
And conservatives view the world through the lens of order and barbarism
Still somewhat reductive. But as the saying goes... all models are wrong, some are useful.
First off , listen to them. Dont mock them, pretend like you know what they are talking about, REALLY try and understand what they are saying. Get into their story, dont interrupt and never make it about you.
To become and Andy, study up on bathroom humor.
This book is amazing and easy and a must read.
i first read about it years ago in John Pilger's "Hidden Agenda". That book freaked me out... book link
u/ExpressNess I think Communication Studies is a fun minor to have if you are looking to use computer science to create positive change in society or communicate better with people. It's a lot valuable life-skills, work/life relationship skills, ethical reasoning skills, and soft-skills that non-programming Computer Science classes try to teach and just aren't able to teach effectively. I personally only know 3 other people in Computer Science actively pursuing it. Here's my experience:
Comm Theory is definitely a harder class in my opinion (it's a pre-req) because of memorization and if you aren't used to studying human communication and relationships, but it's definitely valuable in learning. A lot of things seem like common sense but they are based on different theories.
Textbook: https://www.amazon.com/First-Communication-Theory-Conversations-Theorists-ebook/dp/B00VF61QTC/ref=sr_1_3?crid=238JE3CAIS2CI&keywords=communication+communication+communication&qid=1554518401&s=books&sprefix=communication+communication+comm%2Cstripbooks%2C210&sr=1-3
Beyond that class, there's a lot of cool opportunities and fun and useful classes.
I already had public speaking out of the way coming to UNC Charlotte and took COMM 2102 - Advanced Public Speaking to enhance my public speaking abilities since I do a lot of workshops and talks in tech. I've learned so many other ways to give speeches that I've never have thought about. It's gotten me skills to be confident enough to write an outline and practice a speech to submit for a TED talk. Also, I learned a bit of voice acting.
COMM-3120 Mass Media was fun! I took it with Prof. Tim Horne online and basically watched a lot of Netflix and wrote about how media and tech shapes manipulation of our reality. If anything, I learned a lot of skills to spot fake news if I daresay.
COMM-3136 Leadership, and Service with Adam Burden was amazing. Got to do volunteering work and meet a lot of student leaders on campus and learn about leading a team. The things I've learned in that class has helped me in a lot of group projects and I learned a lot on my personal strengths and values when working in teams and organizations. There's a service project which is just group volunteering which does help you with your soft-skills on your resume. It's based on relational leadership:
This is an awesome textbook that's used for that class: https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Leadership-College-Students-Difference/dp/1118399471
There also a lot about the process of being inclusive and empowering others purposefully and ethically which a lot of tech companies are looking at as it's generally a problem in the tech industry.
Global Media - You learn a lot of views of the whole world and how technology effects culture and vice versa. It really opens up on a lot of ethical perspectives on how tech and media effects democracy and marginalized communities. Really, I think it the class should be called "Working towards achieving world peace through emerging tech, civilizations, media, and economies" tbh. Also, the professor is famous, worked for the United Nations, and wrote the textbook.
Textbook: https://www.amazon.com/Citizenship-Democracies-Engagement-Marginalized-Communities-ebook/dp/B075R3YXJ2/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=democracy+marginalized+economies&qid=1554517749&s=books&sr=1-1
For a related LBST 2102 Global Connections class, I'd also recommend taking Language, Media, and Peace with Prof. Jillian Wagner at the same time with Global Media or Mass Media if possible. This class is similar but focuses on the power of language and peace.
There's also Interpersonal Communications, Group Communications, etc...
I've been teaching in Poland since 2015 and I use this book called English Conversation because all the students are starving to speak. I've had great feedback about it so far. To get students to a proficient level I feel the English File 3rd edition is decent, but some additional activities to make the content a bit more relatable and interesting is a good idea.
oh. great. there's books too.
religion is here to disclose mind control and "virtual reality"--it's the purpose of Exodus.
You can download it free here, but the new version will be released in two weeks.
Apparently Hubbard mentions AK in some of his early lectures, I'm not suprised to see a connection there because it seems like he's influential among a lot of other folks inventing their own systemz around that time. I know that GS influenced Albert Ellis a lot when he made Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and the NLP guys took a lot from it too. Bucky Fuller, William Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson, Alan Watts, Abraham Maslow, Robert Heinlein, Neil Postman, and Anatol Rappoport were also all into Korzybski. It's taking me a long time to work through it but I got a copy of Science & Sanity I'm about halfway through and I'm enjoying it a lot even though most of it is going over my head.
I have no idea what any of this xenolinguistic stuff is can you point me in a couple directions? I'm drowning in new music and reading material (even more since I found this place) but I am planning on doing a medical study soon which will put me in lockdown for 30 days and I'm planning to read the whole time. I have this book in my wishlist on amazon for a while, is it any good?
Not sure if it's every year. I think it's the first time that it's happened. Quite a few of them seem to be collections of blog posts.
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There's a book for this. Read John Pilger's "Hidden Agendas". Guy worked for the Mirror right up until Rupert Murdock came to the UK and debased our media establishment.
I would also recommend reading Death Sentence, The Decay of Public Language by Australian author Don Watson (the book was published as Gobbledygook: How Cliches, Sludge and Management-Speak Are Strangling Public Language in the UK and Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management-Speak Are Strangling Public Language in the US).
Weasel Words (and his other books are also well worth a look), from the introduction.
> Yet the crime is less in the evasion than in the platitudes that hollow out debate even as they talk about starting a 'conversation' with us. The first true crime of managerial politics is that we must push through so much flatulence and dross to reach the nub of it. Take Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina the day a young white man killed seven black people worshipping in a church. She began by saying a 'conversation' was needed, that this was the South Carolinian way. She said 'conversation' three times in her first two sentences. The press then asked her if she would now do something about the Confederate flag flying at the state capitol. She replied: 'I think that . . . at a time like this, you have to look back at what we’ve done. Fifteen years ago the General Assembly at the time they had a conversation.' And she said conversation again and again until someone asked her to say what her position was. And she replied: 'You know, right now, to start having policy conversations with the people of South Carolina . . .' The 'conversation' has been going on since the Civil War. It takes in slavery, Jim Crow and the civil rights movement. But 'conversation' puts all that history to sleep: it puts the world to sleep and gives Governor Haley time to test the political waters.
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> These suffocating words and phrases might serve communication within a business, but they thwart it in debate. That is the second crime of modern political language: it stifles thinking. For all the talk of diversity and flexibility, brainstorming and blue-skying, management language is designed to get everyone thinking the same way: or, more accurately, not thinking beyond the part each plays in the process. One cannot think in clichés, or in pure abstraction, or in messages: and to speak or write in these forms is to prevent others from thinking too. One can't think or convey thoughts without images. One can't think in the fog that management jargon deliberately creates. One can't know in it. Whatever else might be better for being process-driven, politics is not. Politics needs thought and language equally. Civil society does.
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> But where will we find the politicians who know anything else? Leave aside the contaminated areas of their working life if they have had one, the universities they attended have rolled over to the managerial cult. The education departments are infected, and schools write reports that leave parents wondering if the outcomes in outcomes-based education are outcomes for their children or for the educators. Even kindergartens send home folios headed 'Early Years Learning and Development Framework Outcomes.'
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> We cannot fail to notice the new technology, the new economy, the new ways of working. It's hard to miss the fact of the revolution we're living through. But we can easily miss the way the new language has crept into daily life. We scarcely recognise the change, and even less do we notice what we're losing. We adapt to the new all-purpose words and forget the many old ones they've replaced. With their passing, meaning fades; poetry and other keys to human possibility, including irony and critical self-reflection, are lost. 'The limits of my language are the limits of my world,' Wittgenstein said. In this sense at least, so-called globalisation and the global revolution in technology and communications have not made for an expanded world, but a diminished one. The knowledge economy is a realm of lost knowledge, of assured ignorance.
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> We come to ignore what has no meaning. We bend our brains around the void, and stop wondering if such as this is an unwitting idiocy or something sinister: 'In the recent evaluation by the Australian Council for Educational Research, school and community members reported that Direct Instruction was having a positive impact on student outcomes, but the researchers were not yet able to say whether or not the initiative has had an impact on student learning.’
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> Read it five times and you will not find a sensible meaning. Not even if you drill down, deep dive or unpack it. The problem is less one of logic than of language. In your mind’s eye try to attach that sentence to some familiar thing, the inside of a ticking clock, for instance. There is no movement: or flesh, or bone or blood. Like many of the entries in this book it is a little absurd: like all but a very few it is also lifeless, and that, as Graham Greene would have said, is the bigger failing and the chief cause of the absurdity.
Communicating science can be just as important, and much more difficult than the science itself. You have to capture your audience's attention, avoid jargon as much as possible, and tell a compelling story. There are some great books out there about the subject. Connection is my personal favourite, but Escape from the Ivory Tower, Don't be such a Scientist, and Am I Making Myself Clear are all good reads as well.
Not necessarily about media propaganda, but more about media in general.
http://www.amazon.com/Medium-Massage-Inventory-Effects/dp/188886902X
i dont know what you're seeing as backpedaling since i re-summarized the exact point i was making and even included a handy guide to help you read better.
> there is more to the industry than a list celebrities and studio execs and key grips and best boys.
nobody is on the other side of your argument. we know there are people behind the scenes. they are workers, not leprechauns. everyone believes they exist.
> Theater workers don't get paid by movie studios they are paid by you the movie goer.
obviously they AREN'T paid by me or this discussion would be moot.
the fact that they are trying to cling to a job market that is fading out of existence isn't any concern for me. the same way i don't really care about the people who used to service pay phones. you either change the way the industry is run to fit the market or your industry fades into obscurity. if you are demanding that people start hindering progress so you can keep your job then just go on welfare so the rest of us can move on.
> the ups driver that brings you the DVD you ordered online.
he'll still keep his job delivering external hard drives that i order on amazon, because his industry is flexible,at least until drones start delivering things. then he has a choice to either stomp his feet and demand people stop using a faster, easier, more efficient method of delivery... or he learns to fly delivery drones
> The system admin the runs the website you view the movies on.
i thought you don't like that guy because he's cutting into the profits from the guys who work at the movie theater. either way, he gets paid with ad revenue and sometimes a very reasonable subscription fee that costs the price of a couple movie tickets for an entire year's worth of entertainment
> Your understanding of the entire system is incredibly narrow so I don't think you have authority to tell anyone who piracy hurts.
I understand it just fine, i just don't care. either get with the times or get left in the dust. it's not my job to take care of your mismanaged antiquated business model, nor is it anyone else's
EDIT: i just wanted to mention that "you just don't understand" is an argument a teenage girl makes when she can't get a ride to the mall, someone who actually has points that haven't been refuted usually brings them up. you could try this book or if you don't have 63 bucks to view a single piece of information once or twice, you can always try downloading it
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Mass Communication: Living in a Media World, Sixth Edition, by Ralph E. Hanson
https://www.amazon.com/Mass-Communication-Living-Media-World/dp/1506358551
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Well what i think about Silent RP , He can do great RP but at the same time he destroys is and others RP because is Personality
I think u need to step out from the little buble that u are and watch the big Picture do a personal introspection to not negatively affect you and others that are expecting more from u in a positive way, The world needs Positivity bro not your Marketing Terrorism that u do that causes Negativity
I know that u can do better then this SilentSentry or NOT
Links!
Effective Data Visualization
Storytelling With Data
The Accidental Analyst
Data At Work
Effective Data Visualization and Data At Work are in the driver's seat. I really want to try Data At Work, but I struggle to find enough reviews to convince a purchase. Thanks!
You might find this book helpful.
>That does not prove in any way that those journalists are incapable of providing news and information in a non-biased way.
Uh huh. And if there were more Republicans than Democrats there, I'm just certain you'd be making the same apologia for them. Also, it's worth pointing out that social psychology (a field of "science" I don't put much stock in) basically says that, no, there's no way for anyone to eliminate their own bias.
>Perhaps the causation goes the other way. Really, I'm being facetious, but that fact by itself is meaningless.
It isn't in the slightest. Nobody can isolate their own bias from their work, and the person least able to correct against this is that person. There has been a great deal of academic work on the matter as well, and the overwhelming majority of it corroborates that the media, with few exceptions, falls to the left of the American public on a variety of issues.
http://www.amazon.com/Press-Bias-Politics-Controversial-Communication/dp/0275977595
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=588453
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=573801
http://scholar.harvard.edu/barro/files/04_0614_liberalmedia_bw.pdf
No matter how you slice it, whether by stories favorable to Republicans, to the issues they cover, to the political leanings of employees, the media is absolutely biased to the Left. Denying this is to deny that the sky is blue. Or, more accurately, denying this usually requires implying that liberals are just better people than conservatives.
>The first source is even less meaningful. It says that Republicans tend to watch Fox News (duh, we already know that), and liberals tend to watch everything else except Fox News (of course, why would we watch a well-known biased news source)?
It also notes that you watch a lot more sources than conservatives. Why would you do that, if they didn't cater to your existing views?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0275977595
>Through examination of almost 700 press reports on race and homosexuality that were published in 116 different newspapers, this book meticulously documents a liberal political bias in mainstream news.
http://www.themediareport.com/
It's not just a liberal bias, it's outright brainwashing. All the pet ideas of the left are praised in the US media: Big Govt, minorities, atheism, collectivism (as opposed to individual freedom), gay rights, gun control, socialized services, Federal centralization, political correctness, affirmative action, etc etc.
And one can see the outcome right here on reddit.