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Direct linkD. Joel Whalen; Charles Drehmer; Andrew Cavanaugh – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2024
This My Favorite Assignment (MFA) article features 11 teaching innovations first presented at the 2023 Association for Business Communication Annual International Conference held Denver, Colorado, USA. These assignments are designed to boost students' writing, persuasion, crisis management skills, and personal and professional development.
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Writing Assignments, Business Communication, Persuasive Discourse
Plakhotnik, Maria S.; Rocco, Tonette S. – Adult Learning, 2016
To help graduate students with academic writing, a college of education at a large university implemented a new service, Writing Support Circles. Based on the results of the first series of this service, we changed its design. The purpose of this article is to share how changes in the design affected these adult learners' writing self-efficacy and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Adult Learning, Academic Discourse, Graduate Students
Powell, Vonda – Communication Teacher, 2012
As public relations professions advance toward new media platforms, one traditional tool--the backgrounder/position paper (more technically termed white paper) remains a compelling vehicle to impart enduring professional competencies. Moreover, the skills requisite to produce a white paper can be deployed in a variety of new and traditional media…
Descriptors: Evidence, Research Papers (Students), Technical Writing, Class Activities
Goldstein, Gary; Fernald, Peter – College Teaching, 2009
Capstone courses emphasize students' experiences and learning, rather than course content. This emphasis is consistent with principles and practices fundamental to humanistic education. Here we describe a capstone course, "Internship," that includes five features consistent with humanistic education: (1) student-centered learning, (2) empathic…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Humanistic Education, Experiential Learning, Course Content
Peer reviewedFennick, Ruth; And Others – English Journal, 1993
Considers how English teachers, by building a complementary relationship with the workplace, can prepare students better for success in the coming century. Focuses on ways of revolutionizing writing instruction with real world problems. Discusses three examples of real workplace projects demonstrating the notion of writing as problem solving. (HB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Postsecondary Education, Problem Solving, Professional Development
Download full textMeyer, Richard J. – 1993
The common thread that runs through the activities in a literacy course for undergraduate preservice teachers is text. One such activity is a literacy autobiography in which students focus on themselves as learners and teachers. Students are treated as professionals and make their own decisions about how they want to present themselves to their…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques
