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Direct linkWilliams, Julie Ann Stuart; Billings, Philip E.; Estep, Joshua L.; Pinder, Ashanae D. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2022
Despite organizations increasingly seeking talent to identify data to make better business decisions, many assignments provide the data for the students. This article encourages curriculum to introduce data and information request dimensions, identify data sources, write data and information requests, and reflect on data request examples. We…
Descriptors: Data, Information Dissemination, Information Policy, Communication Strategies
Baker, Matthew J. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2019
This study investigates how students perceive the outlining process. Students in two business communication sections completed a survey regarding outlining perceptions and reasons for outlining or not. Using qualitative content analysis and qualitative coding, the researcher and an independent coder analyzed 34 students' responses regarding…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Student Attitudes, State Universities, College Students
Schieber, Danica L.; Robles, Vincent D. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2019
This study describes how reflections allowed students to express their audience awareness as they wrote a multiaudience messages packet. We present an analysis of 27 reflections in which students described their experience when responding to the various audiences. Students' reflective depth varied, though deeper reflections demonstrate…
Descriptors: Reflection, Audience Awareness, Business Communication, Negative Attitudes
Garner, Benjamin; Shank, Nathan – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2018
Effective writing is a soft skill that is highly in demand in today's workforce. This qualitative study examines student perceptions of a revise and resubmit policy aimed at increasing student engagement with an instructor's writing feedback and ultimately improving students' writing skills. Students across three business communication courses…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Revision (Written Composition), Writing Assignments, Feedback (Response)
Lambertz-Berndt, Megan M.; Blight, Michael G. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2016
This study investigates cooperativeness, assertiveness, group satisfaction, leader grade, and leadership negotiation in a collaborative assignment conducted in a small group. Researchers manipulated the assignment of team members who reported on measures of group satisfaction and original scales of assertiveness and cooperativeness. Respondents…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Cooperative Learning, Group Activities, Assignments
Green, Gareth P.; Jones, Stacey; Bean, John C. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2015
Our assessment research suggests that quantitative business courses that rely primarily on algorithmic problem solving may not produce the deep learning required for addressing real-world business problems. This article illustrates a strategy, supported by recent learning theory, for promoting deep learning by moving students gradually from…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Statistics, Problem Solving, Audience Awareness
Moshiri, Farrokh; Cardon, Peter – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2014
This nationwide study of 169 business communication instructors examines the following issues: (a) ideal and actual class sizes in business communication courses, (b) delivery modes of business communication courses, (c) types of written and oral assignments, and (d) topics covered and depth of coverage. Findings suggest that business…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Business Communication, Class Size, Delivery Systems
