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In that respect, Zeltser's article is helpful to a very wide audience.
Another useful source of information about communications skills is the article titled "Nonverbal Communication Tips: Improve Your Nonverbal
Communication Skills with these Tips" by About.com contributing writer Kendra Cherry (2012). Cherry explains the importance of understanding nonverbal communications in face-to-face interactions. Those skills may be especially important to practice in an age where so much of our interpersonal communications take place via a digital medium.
Communications Skills Self-Assessment
In college, the majority of our graded academic assignments involve the formal written expression of ideas (such as on examinations and in out-of-class writing assignments). As a result, it is likely that we receive much better feedback and constructive criticism about our writing than about other forms of communications. That makes it more important to be aware of how well our other forms of communication seem to work...
Generally, it might be possible to assess one's communications skills in other areas by reviewing the history of our apparent success rate. For example, if we often find ourselves having to repeat what we say in face-to-face communications, that may suggest that our communications efforts are less clear than we would hope. The same is likely true about informal written communications such as email and texting. Ideally, we should practice the ability of communicating as clearly as possible in every format and medium available to us.
References
Cherry, K. (2012). Top 10 Nonverbal Communication Tips: Improve Your Nonverbal
Communication Skills with these Tips. Accessed online
September 5, 2012
http://psychology.about.com/od/nonverbalcommunication/tp/nonverbaltips.htm
http://zeltser.com/cheat-sheets/human-communications-cheat-sheet.html
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