CILS 2101: COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS - full notes

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Welcome to Communication Skills! All human relations, be it formal or non-formal, official or unofficial are created, developed and sustained through com- munication. As such it is not only important to carry out communication as a means to facilitating these relationships but to acquire it as an essential skill of life. This basically underlines the necessity of the study of this unit as a whole.
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