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The Real Reason New College Grads Can’t Get Hired
Greetings 3771 Students – Have a look at the link below. What do you think of this assessment? http://business.time.com/2013/11/10/the-real-reason-new-college-grads-cant-get-hired/
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Questions about Portfolio Assignment #5 – Persuasive Message
Hi Class, If you have questions about the Persuasive Message assignment due on Friday, November 1st please post them here!
Hi Class, We are finishing up our more general discussion of how to create goodwill in business communications, and how we should think about document formatting. Before we do so, let’s take one last look at a sample text. This … Continue reading
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Examples for Considering Audience in Business Writing
Locker and Kaczmarek (p. 12) give us a model for message analysis in business settings that focuses on six aspects to think about when “encoding” or “decoding” a message: (P)urpose (A)udience (I)nformation (B)enefits (O)bjections (C)ontext While this, like any other … Continue reading
Problems Creating An Account?
Hi Class – Several students in different sections of my courses have had trouble creating an OpenLab account. Here is what one of the directors of OpenLab has to say about getting your account activated: “…We’ve been seeing this issue … Continue reading
Initial Assignments Posted
Hi Class — I have posted two assignments in the Assignments Page of our OpenLab course. The first assignment, the Self-Assessment you have already received. The second assignment, Cultural Self-Assessment, should be downloaded and completed for class on Tuesday. Please … Continue reading
Course Text On Reserve
Good news, everyone. I have located a second copy of our course text, Business Communication (6th ed.) and placed it on reserve in the library. Again, I sincerely believe that your best options are to either purchase the text, or … Continue reading
Welcome to 3771!
Greetings Class – My name is Dr. Patrick Corbett, and I am excited to be your professor of English 3771 – Advanced Career Writing. During our time together, we will embark on the the most intensive study and practice of … Continue reading
