Human Communication; Creating Reality presents a consistent integration of theory and practice, which reveals the centrality of human communication in the shaping of, and responses to, any one individuals public and private realities. In addition, the skill oriented approach to basic speech communication understandings and competencies offers a unique perspective in which the development of critical questions for producing and evaluating communication in the given case guide creative and systematic learning. The theoretical materials offer a synthesis of substantive information taken from the traditions of rhetorical theory and social science.