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Smirnova, Elizaveta – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2022
Syntactic complexity has been extensively approached in the fields of corpus linguistics and academic discourse studies. However, works focusing on disciplinary variation in terms of linguistic complexity and comparison of professional and novice academic writing are scarce. Addressing these issues is likely to have important implications for…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Writing (Composition), Syntax, English for Academic Purposes
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Lehman, Iga Maria; Sulkowski, Lukasz – Journal of Management Education, 2023
The pressure to publish in scholarly journals has been increasingly pervading doctoral education worldwide and has become a high-stakes activity for any novice writer who wishes to pursue an academic career. In this manuscript, we explore how doctoral students of management from Eastern Europe identify and evaluate authorial voice and compare…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Management Development, Doctoral Programs, Publish or Perish Issue
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Mehra, Payal – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2023
Data-driven decision making has now moved beyond its traditional domains--operations research, business economics, computer sciences, and business statistics--to "softer subjects," such as human resource management, organization behavior, and business communication. In this context, teaching with technology encourages students to…
Descriptors: Social Media, Teaching Methods, Business Administration Education, Graduate Students
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Plakhotnik, Maria S.; Gionti, Lori Ann; Rocco, Tonette S.; Pashkina, Marina V. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2020
Global competition in higher education has facilitated the growth of English-medium instruction universities in countries where English is not a national language. In Europe, for example, the number of such programs at the bachelor's level has grown from only 55 in 2009 to 2900 in 2017. Colleges of business and management at these universities…
Descriptors: Management Development, Russian, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ruane, Sinéad G.; Chappell, Stacie – Management Teaching Review, 2018
Although written communication is a foundational skill, especially for careers in management, faculty can be reluctant to utilize writing assignments for a number of reasons including the subjective nature of and time involved in grading. In this article, we present the IDEAL framework--an andragogical tool developed in an effort to address these…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Skill Development, Management Development, Guidelines
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Schieber, Danica L. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2016
Much research shows that students do not transfer learning well from one class to the next. This study was designed to investigate if students were transferring rhetorical strategies from their disciplinary courses to advanced writing courses. The findings suggest that business majors not only transferred rhetorical knowledge from their other…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Writing Instruction, Advanced Courses, Rhetoric
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Petric, Bojana; Harwood, Nigel – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2013
This mixed-method study investigates the citation behaviour of a successful L2 postgraduate management student, Sofie, in two pieces of writing, written in response to two assignment tasks in two management modules. The tasks belonged to the same assignment type, but differed in the level of direction provided: one was a directed task, accompanied…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Teaching Methods, Assignments, Writing Instruction
Davis, Carl L.; Stohrer, Freda F. – 1989
To document the writing practices, opinions, and perceptions of a particular segment of professionals in the work force, a study surveyed Department of Defense middle managers working for the United States Air Force. Self-report questionnaires were completed by 234 middle managers who had completed a one-week formal in-house writing program, and…
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Job Skills, Management Development, Middle Management
Favre, Betty Atkinson – 1991
The Technical-Professional Communication (TPC) Option at Maryland's Frostburg State University is a response to the growing demand from government, business, and industry to prepare MBAs to meet the high performance requirements of managers who must communicate and communicators who must manage. Students taking this 15-hour writing-intensive…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Communication, College Curriculum, Graduate Study