Glencoe "Communication Applications" provides students with the communication and critical-thinking skills necessary to become competent communicators and valuable, promotable employees. The text offers step-by-step activities that allow students to practice a concept they have just learned, opportunities to complete Internet research and use current technology in communication, and multiple types of authentic assessment. The Student Edition contains a bound-in Communication Survival Kit consisting of a collection of resources and reference materials which include a "Language Handbook" and a "Guide to Business Communication,"