Teaching Business Communication

What is the Difference Between Compliment and Complement?

Compliment vs. Complement

The confusion between these two words is so common! There are a few of reasons for this:

September 26, 2017

Test Your Error-Finding Skills

Each of the three short passages below has one error in the choice of a word. Can you find all three errors? Test your skills. Passage 1: Bishara’s most recent position was principal designer for Barton and Bloss. In the…

September 20, 2017

Editors insure content matches audience readiness for it

My technical editing students are working on a developmental edit on some assembly instructions from Ikea. To help them make good recommendations, we’ve been discussing how to help content creators address the readers’ readiness for that content. Readiness is a concept borrowed from leadership research (the Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership theory) to describe how able and…

September 20, 2017

Engineers often believe technical writing to be highly-detailed documentation for fellow engineers. In fact, technical writing is a style that takes complex information and clearly explains it to a specific audience.

September 19, 2017

Let Me Sell You Some Assisted Living

Last week I went with two friends to visit an assisted living facility they were considering for their mother. A warm, welcoming man shook hands with us and led us into his office. As we entered, I noticed the door…

September 12, 2017

Why a Curriculum on Writing to Build Relationships?

With Labor Day and the start of the new school year, I happened to read two articles that covered the difficult role of adjunct instructors: “The Adjunct Revolt: How Poor Professors Are Fighting Back,” published in 2014, and “In ‘Campus…

September 7, 2017

Business Writing Blog for Business Writing Instructors

Business Writing Blog for Business Writing Instructors will always keep instructors current and ready for class. Discover the latest tips and techniques that will keep you sharp and on the cutting edge.

The first authors in the field to write an instructor blog, Bovée and Thill share instructional insights, offer advice on incorporating digital media, social media, mobile communication, and other technologies into the course, and provide compelling examples of good and bad business communication.

Bovée says, "As instructors grapple with large class sizes and heavy advising loads, we are constantly on the lookout for ways that we can assist. By sharing best practices and offering innovative ideas and resources, we can help instructors spend less time preparing lectures and activities and more time teaching and working one-on-one with their students."

Adds Thill, "Our textbooks are used in dozens of countries. This blog gives us a way to share new ideas quickly with business communication instructors throughout the world."

With its focus on all original content, this blog complements the authors' existing website, Business Communication Headline News (a media curation service in which the authors hand-pick the best business communication articles and resources from across the Internet at http://businesscommunicationheadlinenews.com), and their unique online content-updating service for instructors and students, Bovée & Thill's Real-Time Updates (http://real-timeupdates.com).

Business Writing Blog for Business Writing Instructors also provides links to the latest news about Bovée and Thill, information about Bovée and Thill's textbooks, instructor support resources, and links to teaching instructors' communities on Facebook and LinkedIn.Y

You'll appreciate the abundance of valuable teaching resources for your classes that Bovee and Thill provide. Visit these websites and take advantage of the wonderful classroom resources: Google+, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

To order an examination copy of a Bovee & Thill textbook, visit this page.

September 7, 2017

Business Communication Textbooks Have Wide Gap in Coverage

An analysis of digital, social, and mobile media in business communication textbooks reveals Bovée and Thill’s superb coverage far exceeds the coverage found in competing texts, which in comparison is shockingly incomplete and out of date. Read the full article from ABC 6 News.

September 6, 2017

Business Communication Texts Show Surprising Differences

A new video shows the surprising differences among textbooks authored by Courtland Bovee and John Thill, and their competitors. For example, only Bovee and Thill offer groundbreaking coverage of mobile communication. This is critical because students live in a mobile world–and they’re about to enter a workplace where mobile has gone mainstream–so any business communication course that aims to stay relevant must incorporate mobile.

Bovee and Thill also prepare students with the knowledge and skills they will be expected to have when they enter tomorrow’s workplace. The authors write the only texts that explain the new social communication model that is revolutionizing the way businesses communicate.

Courtland Bovee says, “We offer a clear, consistent, and integrated approach to teaching writing using the three-step process.” The three-step process is uniformly applied throughout each book and is adapted to each message form. Read the full article from NBC Right Now.