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Teaching a Modern Business Communication Course
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This is an online magazine by Bovee & Thill, authors of the leading textbooks in business communication, published by Pearson, featuring resources for business communication and business writing instructors. For more information about Bovee & Thill texts and the exclusive, superior materials they provide for teaching a modern course, visit http://boveeandthillbusinesscommunicationblog.com. For instructor examination copies, go http://blog.businesscommunicationnetwork.com/texts. To find your local sales representative, visit http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/replocator. To contact the authors, use this form: https://businesscommunicationnetwork.com/contact-us/. To get a free Comprehensive Guide to Business Communication Instructional Resources, visit http://blog.businesscommunicationnetwork.com/resources. Subscribe to a free weekly newsletter of new posts to all 11 of Bovee & Thill’s Online Magazines: http://sco.lt/8kgeVV.
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Strike this gobbledygook from your working vocabulary. “Jargon masks real meaning,” says Jennifer Chatman, management professor at the University of California-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. “People use it as a substitute for thinking hard and clearly about their goals and the direction that they want to give others.” . . . 
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"An unprecedented array of resources created by the leading authors in business communication."
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
This collection of resources focus on a wide variety of media, including videos, PowerPoints, infographics, PDFs, and podcasts, covering every conceivable topic in business communication, so you can keep your course fresh and up to date.
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here are five tips to help you improve your communication as a manager: . . .
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How do geniuses come up with ideas? What is common to the thinking style that produced "Mona Lisa," as well as the one that spawned the theory of relativity? What characterizes the thinking strategies of the Einsteins, Edisons, daVincis, Darwins, Picassos, Michelangelos, Galileos, Freuds, and Mozarts of history? What can we learn from them? . . .
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This website provides a rigorous introduction to critical thinking.
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Poor communication and language barriers are costing companies a lot of money, yet executives aren't doing enough about it. According to a new report by the Economist Intelligence Unit — a business research unit of the Economist magazine — nearly half of the 572 senior executives interviewed admitted that misunderstandings and "messages lost in translation" have halted major international business deals for their companies. . .
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Twitter is apart of my life almost every day because: It's a great source of news. There are rich conversations among educators and edtech people.
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Some studies show that integrating social media into college coursework may be helping students learn better. "The more research we do, the more we understand that it's about nuances in how the technologies are used, not whether or not they're used, that matters in the classroom," says Lock Haven (Pa.) University professor Reynol Junco . . ."
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Use these texting trips to improve your business in 140 characters or less. Through text messages powered by bulk short message service (SMS) software, you can give excellent customer service and deliver new product notifications cheaply and easily. Companies wishing to fill positions also rely on texting to let their candidates know they’ve been selected.
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Managers are fighting an epidemic of grammar gaffes in the workplace, where looseness with language can create bad impressions with clients, ruin marketing materials and cause communications errors.
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Human beings love to listen to good stories: We need a good story to share a laugh, to shed some tears, and to enjoy a chat over a cup of coffee. Creative brands work in the same fashion. Bovee & Thill teach storytelling in their texts. Via Kathy Hansen
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When it comes to the comma, writers shouldn't play it by ear. Maybe more than any other element of writing, punctuation combines rules with issues of sound, preference, and personal style. . .
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As I noted in my earlier article, rules and conventions about when to use and not to use commas are legion. But certain errors keep popping up. Here are a few of them. Identification Crisis If I’ve seen it once, I’ve seen it a thousand times. I’m referring to a student’s writing a sentence like: ...
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Interpersonal learning , personalized learning, second life learning , 3d learning, collaborative learning and virtual learning , these are just some of the few buzz words you would be hearing so often in today’s educational literature. Things have changed, and old methods and pedagogies are no longer relevant. Teacher-controlled learning where deconstructed and reconstructed information is presented in a highly formal and standardized classroom setting has become obsolete. The urgent questions we should ask ourselves are the following: What is the driving engine behind this huge transformation in learning? Do we need a new pedagogy to better enhance learning? . . .
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Higher education is undergoing an explosive period of transformation that embraces the digital age. From tablets to smart phones to wikis and blogs, today's digital environment makes communication, collaboration and information sharing easier than ever before. . .
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The legal jargon with respect to digital copyrights can be confusing – especially since different countries have their own laws and regulations.
With this post, we hope to dispel a few myths and pull together a complete list of resources for teachers and students to use when blogging and working with content online. Via Gust MEES, Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines
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These 10 technologies are changing education. Instructors, administrators, and educational technologists should be keeping an eye on and considering for their colleges and classrooms, if they aren’t already using them. . .
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Interested in incorporating cutting-edge social techniques into your educational programs? Consider these three options.
Tony Bingham, president and CEO of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), is leading the discussion about defining social learning.
“Social learning is learning with and from others, often — but not always — with social media tools,” Bingham explains. “Social learning is a powerful approach to sharing and discovering a whole array of options, leading to more informed decision-making and a more intimate, expansive and dynamic understanding of the culture and context in which we work.” Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge, Gust MEES
Dr. Susan Bainbridge's comment,
February 28, 2012 5:39 AM
Glad you're finding some worthwhile info. Susan
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February 28, 2012 5:42 AM
Glad you're finding some useful info Maggie. Susan
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