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Whalen, D. Joel – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2019
This article offers readers 13 "My Favorite Assignments" that were presented at the Association for Business Communication's 83rd annual conference held in Miami, Florida, in 2018. The teaching innovations offered include assignments that present quick, fun icebreaker exercises; visual communication and diversity; rhetoric; email; and…
Descriptors: Assignments, Business Communication, Instructional Innovation, Listening
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Vijayasarathy, Leo R.; Gould, Susan Martin; Gould, Michael – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2015
Written clarity and conciseness are desired by employers and emphasized in business communication courses. We developed and tested the efficacy of a cueing tool--Scribe Bene--to help students reduce their use of imprecise and ambiguous words and wordy phrases. Effectiveness was measured by comparing cue word usage between a treatment group given…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Cues, Computer Software Evaluation, Business Communication