Business writing practice and support over time: Evidence from a strategic management class

Williams, Julie; Estep, Joshua; Davis, Justin L.; Phelps, Rustian; Soter, Helen A.; Snyder, Steven; Lawlor, Blaine; Ezell, Jeffrey

doi:10.1080/08832323.2021.1925206

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“…Questionnaire 1 then repeats the email from the owner shown in Figure 2 Instructors can recommend that students seek their peer review through a one-on-one writing discussion with the university writing center (Ashbaugh, 1994;Bielinska-Kwapisz, 2015;C. Jones, 2001;Kovach et al, 2012;Kuiper & Thomas, 2000;Mackiewicz, 2012;North, 1984;Plutsky & Wilson, 2001;Williams et al, 2022). To provide flexibility, students are allowed to select the peer of their choice as shown in the Feedback Form Instructions in Figure 5.…”

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Engaging Students in Writing Data Requests: A Role-Playing Writing Exercise

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Business and Professional Communication Quarterly

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Despite organizations increasingly seeking talent to identify data to make better business decisions, many assignments provide the data for the students. This article encourages curriculum to introduce data and information request dimensions, identify data sources, write data and information requests, and reflect on data request examples. We propose a three-step writing exercise with a data and information request rubric. A pilot study for an operations management data and information request revealed that participants struggled to specify four data request dimensions: an appropriate recipient, adequate data, a data format, and an information security level.

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