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Toth, Christopher – Business Communication Quarterly, 2013
Infographics exist on nearly any topic you can imagine, proliferating in the digital age with social media. As this genre continues to explode in the business scene, business and professional communication instructors can no longer ignore showing their students infographics. After first defining the genre and outlining how it situates itself…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Graphic Arts, Illustrations, Business Communication
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Clipson, Timothy W.; Wilson, S. Ann; DuFrene, Debbie D. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2012
Social networking via texting, Facebook, Twitter, and similar media is enormously popular with students, though it often leads to communication challenges along gender lines. Research supports the fact that men and women have divergent expectations for social networking and use it differently. Students can benefit from classroom experiences that…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Gender Differences, Computer Mediated Communication, Consciousness Raising
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Meredith, Michael J. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2012
Social media offers an exciting new area for our discipline to produce research and pedagogy that is in high demand by students, industry constituents, and other disciplines. This article discusses why business communication scholars should focus on social media as an important stream of study and outlines an MBA course in social media strategy…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Social Networks, Internet, Business Administration Education
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Randazzo, Chalice – Business Communication Quarterly, 2012
Although the resume and cover letter genre is widely discussed in both popular and scholarly publications, discussion thus far has failed to acknowledge that the process of creating a resume and cover letter has the potential for encouraging students' reflective and reflexive capacities. This article suggests that business communication educators…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Business Communication, Job Search Methods, Resumes (Personal)
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Hoger, Beth – Business Communication Quarterly, 2012
Poetry recitation removes the distractions of creating and organizing original material so that business students can focus on presentation skills of delivery, confidence, and memory. Delivery includes articulation, emphasis, nonverbals, and presence. Confidence and memory development are complementary. Confidence comes from trusting the memory…
Descriptors: Memory, Poetry, Business Communication, Business Administration Education
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Hansen, Brittney; Stith, Danica; Tesdell, Lee S. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2011
In academic culture, plagiarism is considered to be a form of cheating and therefore unethical. Understandably, instructors try to eliminate this kind of unethical behavior from their courses. But what if they designed their assignments and exams in such a way that students would find no reason to cheat? The authors think that it is possible, at…
Descriptors: Assignments, Technical Writing, Plagiarism, Teaching Methods
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Nealy, Chynette – Business Communication Quarterly, 2011
Plagiarism, presenting someone's words or other creative products as one's own, is a mandatory discussion and writing assignment in many undergraduate business communication courses. Class discussions about this topic tend to be lively, ranging from questions about simply omitting identified sources to different standards of ethical behaviors…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Cheating, Ethics, Student Behavior
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Ortiz, Lorelei A. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2013
To teach effective business communication, instructors must target students’ current weaknesses in writing. One method for doing so is by assigning writing exercises. When used heuristically, writing exercises encourage students to practice self-assessment, self-evaluation, active learning, and knowledge transfer, all while reinforcing the basics…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Business Communication, Active Learning, Undergraduate Students
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Lentz, Paula – Business Communication Quarterly, 2013
Employers frequently complain about the state of their employees' writing skills. Much of the current research on this subject explores workplace writing skills from the employer's perspective. However, this article examines workplace writing from the employees' perspective. Specifically, it analyzes MBA students' responses to a course assignment…
Descriptors: Workplace Literacy, Business Communication, Writing Skills, Employee Attitudes
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Graves, Nikki; Epstein, Molly – Business Communication Quarterly, 2011
At Emory University's Goizueta Business School, eportfolio serves as the foundation for a sequence of assignments in our core "Communication and Professional Development" course. Our philosophy underlying the use of eportfolio is influenced by narrative and sense-making theory. At the beginning of the semester, students record their…
Descriptors: College Students, Business Administration Education, Electronic Publishing, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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Whalen, D. Joel; Andersen, Ken; Campbell, Gloria; Crenshaw, Cheri; Cross, Geoffrey A.; Grinols, Anne Bradstreet; Hildebrand, John; Newman, Amy; Ortiz, Lorelei A.; Paulson, Edward; Phillabaum, Melinda; Powell, Elizabeth A.; Sloan, Ryan – Business Communication Quarterly, 2012
The 12 Favorite Assignments featured in this article were presented at the 2011 Annual Convention of the Association for Business Communication (ABC), Montreal, Canada. A variety of learning objectives are featured: delivering bad news, handling difficult people, persuasion, reporting financial analysis, electronic media, face-to-face…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Assignments, Student Projects, Business Communication
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Insley, Robert – Business Communication Quarterly, 2011
Plagiarism is a reality in most college classes where some students plagiarize unknowingly and others do so knowingly. This situation requires instructors to decide how to manage the situation. Some may take the easy way out by ignoring the problem, simply pretending that none of their students plagiarize. In contrast, other instructors embrace…
Descriptors: Business Communication, College Students, Plagiarism, Cheating
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May, Gary L.; Thompson, Margaret A.; Hebblethwaite, Jennifer – Business Communication Quarterly, 2012
Assurance of learning continues to be a hot topic in higher education. Both accreditation agencies and employers are asking a key question: Are we graduating students who actually have the knowledge and skills that we promise? This case study focuses on business writing in an MBA program and presents a prescriptive, five-step program to improve…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Data Analysis, Writing Skills, Business Communication
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Crews, Tena B.; Wilkinson, Kelly – Business Communication Quarterly, 2010
Undergraduate business communication students were surveyed to determine their perceived most effective method of assessment on writing assignments. The results indicated students' preference for a process that incorporates visual, auditory, and e-handwritten presentation via a tablet PC. Students also identified this assessment process would…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Assignments, Business Communication, Handheld Devices
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Harms, Patricia L.; Roebuck, Deborah Britt – Business Communication Quarterly, 2010
In the workplace, the process of evaluating and discussing the performance of both employees and managers is referred to as feedback. The process generally involves a discussion of the individual's strengths or weaknesses, with suggestions on how to improve upon weaknesses. Feedback aligns workplace behavior with the overall goals of a team or an…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Assignments, Business Communication, Peer Evaluation
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