The Basics of Communication Research (with InfoTrac) (Wadsworth Series in Speech Communication)

Very informative and written for anyone to understand. Great first book for a first graduate class.

The book system worked as promised, it was in meh condition.

This item was a replacement for a text book that my daughter lost at school. Seller had excellent follow-up and the shipment was timely... made the best out of what could have been a bad situation.

This book is written with the assumption that all of its readers are children who appreciate repeated references to their parents, their roommates, and their great (or not-so-great) dates.As an older-than-average graduate student, I'm finding it terribly distracting to have to read past the repeated attempts at conversational style trying to buddy up to me by talking about when my Uncle Fred scared my dad to make him learn something, since both my mother and my father are dead and I'm a member of AARP.Many of us, in an uncertain economy, are returning to school. Even without that, the Master's class at my University is composed of some 20-somethings, some 30 or 40-somethings and one or two of us even older than that; many grad students spend at least a few years in the work world between undergrad and grad school, and by the time we're taking a course that uses this text we have at least left our parent's homes and had LIVES, for God's sake.Perhaps there are middle-school students learning about communication research. Perhaps even undergrads read this book and don't feel condescended to, though as I remember myself in those years I felt quite grown up, thank you very much, and repeated references to may parents would probably still have grated somewhat.At any rate, of all the textbooks I've purchased for my second college career, this is the only one that talks down to me or assumes I need exclamation points to understand the author's emphasis. Would that it weren't required for my course; I'd burn the thing and dance around its funeral pyre, laughing hysterically. (Yes, it's that difficult to read.)

Great book and price

I just noticed the InfoTrac subscription because of this email and I'm excited to try it out! Thanks a million!

This was a book I needed for my class.

ok, I am "renting" a digital copy of this for school and so far reading the ebook is a nightmare. The text is tiny and it is not in a book format like other things on kindle, it's tiny tiny text on a full-screen view that you have to zoom in and scoot around to read.It's like a PDF, basically.I am extremely dissatisfied at how expensive this is compared to its low user-experience quality.