Communication Skills for Professionals

ISBN-10: 8120344200
ISBN-13: 9788120344204
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Pages: 224
Language: English
Published: 2011-08-09
Publisher: PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Author: NIRA KUMAR

Description

In today’s competitive and globalized world, communication has become an essential tool for everyone—be they students, academics or professionals. For technocrats and professionals, it becomes all the more necessary to acquire good communication skills as they have to communicate effectively with all their business and professional colleagues. This book on Communication Skills for Professionals, now in its Second Edition, strives to equip the students of engineering and technology with the requisite knowledge of effective communication. Divided into seven parts, this compact and student-friendly text discusses the various aspects of language such as vocabulary, grammar, verbs, phrasal verbs, voices, tenses, transformation and synthesis of sentences. Besides, the book gives a clear analysis of such skills as writing, reading, listening and public speaking. Finally, the book ends with means of effective communication, business communication, situational dialogues, public speaking skills, body language, and group discussions (GDs). The book which is suffused with plenty of examples and skillfully designed questions, is primarily intended as a textbook for the first-year engineering students of West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT) for their core course on English Language and Communication. It is activity based and classroom tested and would be highly useful also for B.Tech./BE students across the country. WHAT’S NEW TO THIS EDITION : A new chapter on Business Communication New sections on Business Talk and Meetings Gives the characteristics of a good speaker Has more indepth study of listening and reading skills.

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