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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 2022 from the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative.

This adaptation was for a specific purpose at two institutions. We have reformatted the original text, replaced images and figures, and significantly altered or updated the original 2013 text. This work is made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

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Written by faculty members from the School of Communication Studies at James Madison University and the Department of Communication Studies and Theatre at Blue Ridge Community College.

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