What Did You Say? A Guide to the Communication Skills

This text is divided into four parts. Part 1 introduces the expressive and receptive skills, emphasing their interrelationships and focuses on planning and gathering materials for purposeful communication. Included is new sections on listening and notetaking. While part II focuses on writing and rewriting it stresses revision as the key to improvement. In part III speaking explores the skills of public speaking and group discussion and includes a wide variety of assignments and teaching aids. The final part, Handbook comprises of a review of basic English structure and a quick reference for checking basic English usage.