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Effects of a Writing-to-Learn Tutorial Programme in a Higher Education Setting: An Interactive Qualitative Study
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Bargate, Karen – Africa Education Review, 2015
Many higher education students embark on a study of accounting under the misconception that accounting requires a high level of proficiency in manipulating data and being good with numbers, while believing that linguistic competence, especially as it relates to writing, is of less importance. This article reports on a study that examined 15…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Qualitative Research, Accounting, Student Experience
Intersectional Computer-Supported Collaboration in Business Writing: Learning through Challenged Performance
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Remley, Dirk – Across the Disciplines, 2009
Carter (2007) identifies four meta-genres associated with writing activities that can help students learn discipline-specific writing skills relative to standards within a given field: these include problem solving, empirical approaches to analysis, selection of sources to use within research, and production of materials that meet accepted…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Technical Writing, Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing
Surveying the Writing Assigned in Functional Areas.
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Pomerenke, Paula J. – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1993
Surveys faculty of the College of Business at Illinois State University concerning writing assignments given in the functional areas. Finds an average of one research paper per class required in each of the five departments of the college, while the type and format of research varied. Discusses implementing the results. (RS)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Content Area Writing, Higher Education, Research Papers (Students)
America Inc.: John Dos Passos'"USA" as Professional Writing Textbook.
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Di Renzo, Anthony – 1996
While working as a special consultant for General Mills in 1948, John Dos Passos wrote a report explaining the latest scientific research and technological advancements and how the postwar economy was affecting General Mills and the cereal market. General Mills, using a real writer for a corporate freelance, profited from Dos Passos' expertise and…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Content Area Writing, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
The "Corporate Correspondence Project": Fostering Audience Awareness and Extended Collaboration
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Brumberger, Eva R. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2004
This article focuses on an extended, interactive, collaborative project in a junior/senior-level business communication class. The main goal of the project is to address a difficult task central to many college-level writing courses: teaching students to consider and to write for specific audiences other than the teacher. A second goal is to focus…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Audience Awareness, Course Objectives, Writing Assignments
The Crisis Posting: Scenarios for Class Discussion and Creation
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Jebb, John F. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2005
For years, the author has been a fan of assigning students in business communication classes to draft messages that explained complex decisions or situations. The assignment is the author's variation of the negative or bad news message. This traditional genre has generated a new Web-based method by which people and organizations respond to public…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Business Communication, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Content Area Writing