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Communications Toolkit, 5th Edition | AU/NZ

Jane Grellier, Veronica Goerke, Katie Fielding

  • Copyright 2022
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Overview

The Communications Toolkit contains practical advice, tips and strategies to enable learners to develop the communication skills needed to be successful students.

The text helps students make a successful transition to tertiary studies, develop effective research skills for their discipline, approach academic writing with confidence, refine their writing skills, and enhance their face-to-face communication experience.

This fifth edition includes more information than ever on academic integrity and referencing, while taking into account the changing nature of university communication including new information on recent text-types such as blogs, twitter, digital articles, online research questionnaires, presentation formats and Turn-it-in. As students are increasingly studying online, additional examples of online students’ communication work and additional coverage of the communication challenges students face when going to university via an online channel are included.

The direct, inclusive, motivational and student-friendly text addresses both individual students and those working in seminar or workshop groups, and provides activities for both types of student throughout the book.

The new MindTap offers students resources for learning and revision, making this the strongest communications textbook in the market today.

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Meet the Authors

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Jane Grellier

The late Dr. Jane Grellier dedicated more than 20 years to coordinating the first-year Communications Program in the Faculty of Media, Society and Culture at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. She worked with a team of educators delivering communications units to over 4,000 first-year students annually across internal faculties, online, and offshore. Jane began her career as a secondary English teacher in Western Australian schools before spending 15 years as an educational writer and curriculum developer for both secondary and tertiary sectors. A gifted writer, she was known for her clarity, precision, and sensitivity, and was deeply committed to helping students write in clear, concise English—skills she believed were essential for success at university. Her most recent research focused on reflective practice, a lifelong interest that shaped her own writing and informed her efforts to foster reflective thinking among first-year students. Jane’s warmth, generosity, and professionalism earned the admiration and respect of colleagues, editorial teams, and students alike. This sixth edition of The Communications Toolkit, along with past and future editions, stands as a tribute to Jane’s remarkable contribution to education and her enduring legacy.

Veronica Goerke

Dr Veronica Goerke is a senior lecturer and advisor at Curtin University . Like Jane and Katie, Veronica worked in secondary schools before teaching and coordinating university communication skills and holding leadership roles in academic development and curriculum design. Her role includes working with First Nations Australians to co-create and deliver reconciliation-related projects and promoting antiracism for students and staff. She has completed research on the first-year experience, communication skills and students’ use of tablet computers; however, her key research focus is translating contemporary reconciliation in Australian universities. As reconciliation is significantly about how we communicate in the ‘third space’ (Bhabha 1988), Veronica believes we need to keep enhancing our communications to be more inclusive and create positive change in our world.

Katie Fielding

Katie Fielding is a student conduct coordinator at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, where she works to maintain and educate about academic integrity. Prior to taking on this role, Katie predominantly taught in the schools of Media, Culture and Social Inquiry (MCASI), Education, and more recently with Engineering students. She began her teaching career in secondary school English, and later moved into the tertiary education space where her passion and skill for teacher education and communication have been employed. She has a particular interest in the ways that online learning can be harnessed to provide students with opportunities to access education, as well as the impact of new technologies such as artificial intelligence on education. Katie spent several years researching the role that digital technologies can play in helping young children develop their capacities for creative thinking, innovation and problem solving.

What's New

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  • NEW MindTap provides an alternative way of viewing the content and engaging with online learning; its key differentiator is that it offers alternative approaches to using the core material with potential for academics to add discipline-specific resources and activities, with assessment rubrics
  • NEW author Katie Fielding joins this strong author team to provide an expanded range of expertise
  • NEW Chapter 2, 'Online learning' considers online learning and its impact on communication as well as explaining to students what they can expect from online learning
  • NEW Chapter 3, Identifying and evaluating appropriate resources. This is a combination of the previous edition’s chapter 3, Identifying appropriate resources, and Chapter 4, Evaluating your resources
  • NEW Chapter 4, 'Reading scholarly texts', both written and recorded covering note taking skills from the old Chapter 2, with a stronger focus on the scholarly processes
  • Expanded and updated coverage of important topics such as online learning and communication, academic integrity (Ch 5), different digital texts types such as blogs, wikis, infographics and social media (Ch 10), links for online language labs and grammar exercises (Ch 12), and inclusive language (Ch 14)

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  • Instructor Website - Your #1 resource for your course. This tailored collection of teaching tools includes downloadable PowerPoint lecture slides, Instructor's Guide, and Test Bank with customisable questions for quizzes and assessments. The Instructor's Guide is packed with content that helps you set up and administer your class:  Chapter essential points, activities and suggested responses, and more Log in or request an account to access instructor resources at au.cengage.com/instructor/account for Australia or nz.cengage.com/instructor/account for New Zealand.
  • Real student examples of communication highlight best practice and especially the annotated examples that provide guidance on areas to improve so that students can compare their own communication efforts
  • Recognise common mistakes and gain valuable guidance from the 'How to spot' and 'How to fix' tables
  • 'Hint' boxes provide simple tips and suggestions to improve student communication skills
  • Students use the activities throughout the text to practise and develop their communication skills as individuals and in group situations
  • MindTap - Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform - the personalised eLearning solution. MindTap is a flexible and easy-to-use platform that helps build student confidence and gives you a clear picture of their progress. We partner with you to ease the transition to digital – we're with you every step of the way. MindTap for Grellier’s Communications Toolkit, 5th edition is full of innovative resources to support critical thinking, and help your students move from memorisation to mastery! Includes: · Grellier’s Communications Toolkit, 5th edition eBook · Student communication examples · Communication checklists · Activities and more MindTap is a premium purchasable eLearning tool. Contact your Cengage learning consultant to find out how MindTap can transform your course.

Table of Contents

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Part 1 Transitioning to tertiary studies
1. Making the transition
2. Online learning

Part 2 Research skills
3. Identifying and evaluating appropriate resources
4. Reading scholarly texts, both written and recorded 
5. Referencing and academic integrity

Part 3 Academic writing
6. Approaches to writing
7. Reflective writing
8. Report writing
9. Academic essay writing
10. Some other tertiary genres

Part 4 Refining your writing
11. Two principles of good academic writing
12. Grammar, punctuation and spelling

Part 5 Face-to-face communication
13. Interpersonal skills
14. Intercultural communication
15. Teamwork
16. Presentations
17. How far you’ve come!

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Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform - the personalised eLearning solution. MindTap is a flexible and easy-to-use platform that helps build student confidence and gives you a clear picture of their progress. We partner with you to ease the transition to digital – we're with you every step of the way. MindTap for Grellier’s Communications Toolkit, 5th edition is full of innovative resources to support critical thinking, and help your students move from memorisation to mastery! Includes: · Grellier’s Communications Toolkit, 5th edition eBook · Student communication examples · Communication checklists · Activities and more MindTap is a premium purchasable eLearning tool. Contact your Cengage learning consultant to find out how MindTap can transform your course.

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