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Interpersonal Encounters- Vantage Learning Platform
Connecting Through Communication

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March 2022 | SAGE Publications, Inc
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ISBN: 978-1-0718-7158-4


About Interpersonal Encounters

With a practical and innovative approach, Interpersonal Encounters: Connecting through Communication shows students how interpersonal communication skills can be best used to accomplish everyday relationship goals. Guided by current interpersonal research from diverse authors and study participants, Laura K. Guerrero and Bree McEwan focus on the functions of interpersonal communication in our everyday lives and demonstrate how concepts, theories, and contemporary research apply to building, maintaining, and ending relationships. The book’s unique structure prepares students to become better communicators in their personal and professional lives.

About Interpersonal Encounters: Connecting through Communication - Vantage Learning Platform

STUDENTS

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With a practical, innovative, and functional approach to the study of interpersonal communication, Interpersonal Encounters: Connecting through Communication, by Laura K. Guerrero and Bree McEwan, prepares students to become better communicators in their personal and professional lives. Interpersonal Encounters - Vantage Learning Platform delivers the trusted content from Laura K. Guerrero and Bree McEwan’s text on SAGE Vantage, an intuitive digital platform that features auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools—including assignable video—all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. It offers easy course setup and enables students to better prepare for class. For a personalized demo, please contact your SAGE representative.

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Search Reference: Vantage Digital Option and Course tools done right
 
Chapter 1: Understanding Interpersonal Communication
 
Chapter 2: Performing the Self
 
Chapter 3: First Impressions and Initial Attraction
 
Chapter 4: Communicating Across Cultures
 
Chapter 5: Making and Managing Conversations
 
Chapter 6: Expressing and Managing Emotion
 
Chapter 7: Influencing Others
 
Chapter 8: Initiating and Developing Relationships
 
Chapter 9: Maintaining Quality Relationships
 
Chapter 10: Managing Conflict Communication
 
Chapter 11: Coping with Transgressions
 
Chapter 12: Ending Relationships
 
Capstone Chapter: Connections and Conclusions

Supplements

Student Study Site
edge.sagepub.com/guerreroie

The open-access Student Study Site makes it easy for students to maximize their study time, anywhere, anytime. It offers flashcards that strengthen understanding of key terms and concepts, as well as learning objectives that reinforce the most important material.
Instructor Resource Site
edge.sagepub.com/guerreroie

For additional information, custom options, or to request a personalized walkthrough of these resources, please contact your sales representative. 

LMS cartridge included with this title for use in Blackboard, Canvas, Brightspace by Desire2Learn (D2L), and Moodle

The LMS cartridge makes it easy to import this title’s instructor resources into your learning management system (LMS). These resources include: 
  • Test banks
  • Editable chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides
  • Sample course syllabi
  • Lecture notes
  • All tables and figures from the textbook
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You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site.
 

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KEY FEATURES OF INTERPERSONAL ENCOUNTERS 

  • The text’s unique focus on interaction in interpersonal encounters from a functional perspective provides students insight on the impact in their lives. 
  • Includes both research and practical application, with over 900 citations and current examples such as the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Twitter. 
  • Chapter-opening vignettes show concepts in action to provide students real-world application and context. 
  • A ‘Skill Builder’ chapter feature describes various interpersonal skills with recommendations on ways to develop and refine each skill.
  • ‘What Would You Do’ boxes present students with different ethical scenarios and prompt them to answer what they would do in a given communication situation. 
  • A chapter-ending ‘Principles’ section summarizes the ideas and concepts of the chapter so students develop a better appreciation for understanding the big picture in interpersonal communication. 
  • Chapter-ending reflection questions and discussion board questions help students critically think about and reflect on their own communication skills and key issues in the chapter.