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Nielsen, Danielle – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2018
This article addresses the importance of teaching transformative usability and accessibility concepts through the lens of disability studies in general business and professional communication courses. It argues that when students learn to analyze audiences, include diverse users, and foresee accessibility "before" the final draft because…
Descriptors: Usability, Accessibility (for Disabled), Concept Teaching, Business Administration Education
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Dainville, Julie; Sans, Benoît – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
Since July 2013, our research team has been working on a project that aims at re-introducing rhetorical exercises in Belgian secondary (high) schools and at studying their effects on the pupils. Our hypothesis is that the regular practice of rhetorical exercises, inspired by those practised in Antiquity, could stimulate skills like…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Teaching Methods, Experimental Curriculum, Writing (Composition)
Karmas, Cristina – Online Submission, 2011
To succeed as tomorrow's workers in the knowledge society of the new century--a world characterized by ceaseless change, boundless knowledge and endless doubt, today's business writing students must develop the skills and traits needed to become creative problem-solvers, flexible team-players and risk-taking life-time learners (Bereiter, 2002a).…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Business Communication, Learning Readiness, Learning Strategies
Coman, Carolyn – Stenhouse Publishers, 2011
Award-winning author Carolyn Coman has made a career out of writing stories for children and young adults as well as teaching writing to people of all ages. She believes that the essence of good writing, no matter the genre, is the ability to craft a solid story. In this innovative book, Carolyn provides advice, strategies, and inspiration…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Teachers, Writing Instruction, Story Telling
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Babcock, Matthew James – Teaching in Higher Education, 2007
This article explores the beneficial and sometimes unpredictable implications of a daily reflective writing exercise for introductory literature courses: the learning log. Pseudonymous samples of student writing, coupled with instructor commentary, gesture toward ways in which the learning log's continual implementation and modification foster a…
Descriptors: Writing Exercises, Reading Strategies, Introductory Courses, Literature
Brauer, David – Composition Studies, 2006
This article discusses a theoretical aspect of composition studies concerning the development of "an irenic multicultural composition classroom." The author notes that such a classroom environment, where all parties learn how to get along and perhaps learn to "agree to disagree," has been a long-time goal of composition studies theorists. However,…
Descriptors: Writing Exercises, Classroom Environment, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition)