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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
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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