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Boettger, Ryan K.; Emory Moore, Lindsay – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2018
We investigated the perception and recognition of errors in a population of practitioners and academics in professional and technical communication. Specifically, we measured 303 participants' botheration levels of 24 usage errors and then correlated those results against their ability to recognize the errors. Results indicated that practitioners…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Error Patterns, Business Communication, Language Usage
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Brandenburg, Laura C. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2015
This study tests the recognition of errors in context and whether the presence of errors affects the reader's perception of the writer's ethos. In an experimental, posttest only design, participants were randomly assigned a memo to read in an online survey: one version with errors and one version without. Of the six intentional errors in version…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Recognition (Psychology), Reader Text Relationship, Pretests Posttests