Written by leading scholar and award-winning teacher Julia T. Wood, INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION: EVERYDAY ENCOUNTERS, 8e helps you find your voice with its solid introduction to interpersonal communication in a multicultural society. Integrating the latest communication research, it helps you build the skills you need to become a better communicator. Reflecting the author's expertise in gender and social diversity, the text includes an unparalleled emphasis on diversity. It also provides comprehensive coverage of the influence of social media and thorough discussions of the ethical challenges and choices that affect interpersonal communication. It covers such timely issues as emotional intelligence and forgiveness, interracial relationships, safe sex, ways to deal with abuse from intimates, race-related differences between conflict styles, and the power of language
