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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Figure 2. 1 Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational-Leadership Theory: This image derived from Interpersonal Relationships at Work in Interpersonal Communication – Simple Book Publishing Copyright © by Jason S. Wrench; Narissra M. Punyanunt-Carter; and Katherine S. Thweatt licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Chapter 4
Figure 4.1 Low Context vs. High Context Cultures derived from Cultural Characteristics and Communication in Interpersonal Communication Copyright © by Jason S. Wrench; Narissra M. Punyanunt-Carter; and Katherine S. Thweatt available at Interpersonal Communication – Simple Book Publishing licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Chapter 5
Figure 5.1 An Example of Freewriting: This image was created using Microsoft Power Point on 02/14/2025 by Damla Ricks. [link to source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/powerpoint] Licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal. This work has been marked as dedicated to the public domain.
Figure 5.2 An Example of Idea Mapping: This image was created using Microsoft Power Point on 03/18/2025 by Damla Ricks. [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/powerpoint] Licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal. This work has been marked as dedicated to the public domain.
Chapter 6
Figure 6.1 Four Elements of Language Use: This image was created using Microsoft Power Point on 02/27/2025 by Karishma Chatterjee.[link to source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/powerpoint] Licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal. This work has been marked as dedicated to the public domain.
Chapter 8
Figure 8.1 Two Approaches of Communicating Bad News: This image derived from “Bad News” available at Communication for Professionalsby Susan Oaks, licensed under CC BY-NC: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International, unless otherwise noted.
Chapter 13
Figure 13.1 Example of How to List a Book in the Reference Section of a Paper Using APA 7th Edition Style: This image was adaptad by Sarah LeMire from Deborah Bernnard, Greg Bobish, Jenna Hecker, Irina Holden, Allison Hosier, Trudi Jacobson, Tor Loney, and Daryl Bullis, The Information Literacy User’s Guide: An Open, Online Textbook, edited by Greg Bobish and Trudi Jacobson (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, Milne Library, 2014), p. 56, Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial–ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Figure 13.2 An Example of How to List a Journal Article in the Reference Section of a Paper Using APA 7th Edition Style: This image was adaptad by Sarah LeMire from Deborah Bernnard, Greg Bobish, Jenna Hecker, Irina Holden, Allison Hosier, Trudi Jacobson, Tor Loney, and Daryl Bullis, The Information Literacy User’s Guide: An Open, Online Textbook, edited by Greg Bobish and Trudi Jacobson (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, Milne Library, 2014), p. 56, Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial–ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
