Student Engagement Activities for Business Communications

Melissa Ashman; Arley Cruthers; Sarah Duncan; Karen Inkster Vance; Panteli Tritchew

Book Title: Student Engagement Activities for Business Communications

Authors: Melissa Ashman; Arley Cruthers; Sarah Duncan; Karen Inkster Vance; and Panteli Tritchew

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How to use this book
Research, information literacy, and documentation
1. Information literacy hunt
  Arley Cruthers
2. Practicing paraphrasing and direct quoting
  Melissa Ashman
3. Citation highlighting
  Arley Cruthers
4. Dear Abby
  Arley Cruthers
5. Deductive reasoning murder mystery
  Arley Cruthers
Audience analysis
1. Context hunt
  Arley Cruthers
2. Guess the audience
  Arley Cruthers
3. Audience-centred messages discussion
  Melissa Ashman
Writing skills and process
1. Paragraph sort
  Arley Cruthers
2. The Writer's Eye
  Arley Cruthers
3. Bulwer Lytton Competition
  Arley Cruthers
4. Word Connotation
  Arley Cruthers
5. Writing Process
  Arley Cruthers
6. Style and tone field trip
  Arley Cruthers
7. Question of the day
  Arley Cruthers
8. Writing audience-centred messages
  Melissa Ashman
Icebreakers and wrap-ups
1. Course syllabus scavenger hunt
  Arley Cruthers
2. Dear Future Me
  Arley Cruthers
Routine and negative news messages
1. Negative news messages
  Melissa Ashman
2. Good and bad news pre-activity
  Arley Cruthers
3. Customer complaint response rewrites
  Karen Inkster Vance
Oral communication
1. Vocal exercises
  Melissa Ashman
2. The house of lies
  Arley Cruthers
3. What would the teacher say
  Arley Cruthers
Intercultural communication
1. Intercultural communication terminology discussion
  Melissa Ashman
Reports
1. Open-ended question bingo
  Arley Cruthers
2. Primary or secondary
  Arley Cruthers
3. Creation of multi-level outlines
  Panteli Tritchew
4. Report treasure hunt
  Karen Inkster Vance
5. Report sort
  Arley Cruthers
6. Report remix
  Arley Cruthers
Employment communications
1. Employment skills analysis
  Melissa Ashman
2. Writing a cover letter
  Melissa Ashman
3. LinkedIn lightning round
  Arley Cruthers
Document formatting
1. Gestalt Theory scavenger hunt
  Arley Cruthers
Persuasive messages
1. Storytelling
  Arley Cruthers

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Book Description

Student Engagement Activities for Business Communications is a compilation resource for instructors of workplace writing and oral presentations. The activities in this book can add value and energy to the classroom by engaging students in activities that support their learning. Handouts, links, activity variations, and debrief questions are included.

Authors

Melissa Ashman; Arley Cruthers; Sarah Duncan; Karen Inkster Vance; and Panteli Tritchew

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Title: Student Engagement Activities for Business Communications
Authors: Melissa Ashman; Arley Cruthers; Sarah Duncan; Karen Inkster Vance; and Panteli Tritchew
License: Student Engagement Activities for Business Communications Copyright © by Melissa Ashman; Arley Cruthers; Sarah Duncan; Karen Inkster Vance; and Panteli Tritchew is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.