License and Attribution

This edition of Exploring Communication in the Real World (2020) was adapted by Christopher Miller and Mia Poston for use in Communication Studies courses at the College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL.  It is distributed with a Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA.

The following texts were used to develop this openly licensed text:

Chapters 1 – 9:

License statement for the originating text is as follows:

Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies is adapted from a work produced and distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA) in 2013 by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative.

Chapters 10 – 22:

License statement for the originating text is as follows:

Exploring Public Speaking: The Free Dalton State College Public Speaking Textbook, 3rd Edition. A Creative Commons Licensed Open Educational Resource for Introductory College Public Speaking Courses. Primary Author and Editor: Dr. Barbara G. Tucker.
This text exists under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, and as such it may be used for non-commercial purposes. Photographs are used by permission of the Office of Marketing and Communication at Dalton State College and are copyrighted 2017.