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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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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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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