Introduction to Communication

G. M. du Plooy wrote this foundational textbook for first-year communication students at UNISA, South Africa's large distance-education university, and it served that prescriptive role through the 1990s with the straightforward utility a first-year text requires. Du Plooy is a respected South African communication scholar, and the book provides solid grounding in communication theory, models, and contexts appropriate for undergraduate entry points. The audience is specific: UNISA students in a particular era of the curriculum. That specificity is also the main limitation — detailed content information from this 1995 edition is sparse in publicly accessible sources, and communication theory has developed substantially in the three decades since publication. For readers outside the South African academic context, this title is largely a historical artifact. Its score reflects its functional value within its original context rather than current general relevance.