Communication and Linguistics Skills: An Essential Guide to Students and Teachers is a commendably linguistic book of almost 300 pages, and it is a coherent and fascinating work which addresses six topics:
* - communication as a discipline of its own
* - communication as a language skill
* - the eight parts of speech
* - linguistics
* - word formation and
* - the difference between British and American English. It supports language learners with short and clear definitions and exercises of each key linguistic concept in a coherent and easy-to-understand way. It is an invaluable book for students and teachers with other languages as their mother tongue.

Farah Nur was born in Belet Weine and raised in Mogadishu, Somalia, and he is British by naturalisation. He attended Lafole College of Education, majoring in English and history. Farah worked as a primary and secondary school teacher, teacher trainer, curriculum developer, as well as vice principal of a secondary school. However, after more than 10 years of teaching, he won a scholarship to Moray House College of Education (Scotland) where he did postgraduate diploma in linguistics and English language teaching. Then he went to Robert Gordon University and Strathclyde University where he studied postgraduate and MSc courses in library and information science, respectively. After the completion of the above courses, he worked in the Gambia, Uganda, and London as a college and school librarian. He also worked in London and Sweden as an assistant teacher and now he is a lecturer in one of Somalia's universities.