Business and Professional Communication


Book Description

Recipient of the 2020 Textbook Excellence Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) Business and Professional Communication provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to move from interview candidate, to team member, to leader. Accessible coverage of new communication technology and social media prepares students to communicate effectively in real world settings. With an emphasis on building skills for business writing and professional presentations, this text empowers students to successfully handle important work-related activities, including job interviewing, working in team, strategically utilizing visual aids, and providing feedback to supervisors.




Professional Communication


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Professional Communication takes an integrated approach to teaching English/language arts skills that are vitally important in today's digital environment. The basic skills of writing, speaking, listening, and reading are interwoven into the content as each skill is presented and applied in context. Students are guided through a step-by-step writing process to create clear and concise messages and develop professional skills that are that are sought after in the workplace. Topics such as making presentations, grammar basics, and digital citizenship prepare students for success in college and career and to become effective contributors in the 21st century. * Writing for specialized purposes, such as technical writing and social media, guides the development of writing expertise needed in today's job market. * Portfolio development activities provide an opportunity for students to create a personal portfolio to use when applying for college, a community service position, or a job. * Exploring Communication Careers features examine a wide variety of opportunities in the Arts, A/V Technology & Communication career cluster. * Career planning chapters help students to prepare, apply, and begin the first day on a job.




Professional Communication


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"Professional Communication" presents ten studies of communication practices in a variety of professional contexts. By drawing on diverse methodologies from fields such as conversation analysis, intercultural communication, and organizational studies, the essays here examine how language is constructed, managed, and consumed in various professional situations, ranging from academic settings to business negotiations. One important theme of the book is its emphasis on the collaboration between researchers and professionals. The contributors strongly believe that such collaborative partnership will provide direct implications for improving workplace communication and enhance better understanding of the construction of professional identity and organizational behaviour. This book will appeal to not only scholars and researchers in discourse analysis, intercultural communication and professional studies, but also practitioners in the related fields and disciplines.




Designing Technical and Professional Communication


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This concise and flexible core textbook integrates a design thinking approach, rhetorical strategies, and a global perspective to help students succeed as technical and professional communicators in today’s multimodal, mobile, and global community. Design thinking and good communication practices are rooted in empathy and human values. The integrated approach fosters students' ability to address the complex problems they will face in their careers, where they will collaborate with people who present diverse expertise, cultures, languages, and values. This book introduces the knowledge and skills as well as agile activities that help students communicate on projects within local and global communities. Parts 1 and 2 introduce the strategies for design thinking, audience analysis, communicating ethically, collaborating professionally, and managing projects to define problems and implement solutions. In Parts 3 and 4, students learn to compose content in text and visuals. They learn to structure and deliver content by choosing the right genre and selecting effectively from the communication options available in today's multimodal environment. Designing Technical and Professional Communication serves as a flexible core textbook for technical and professional communication courses. An instructor’s manual containing exercises, sample syllabus, and guidance for teaching in a variety of settings is available online at www.routledge.com/9780367549602.




The Professional Communications Toolkit


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The Professional Communications Toolkit presents a compelling vision of communication that offers little known and amazingly effective techniques for the novice speaker and stage-savvy pro alike. Author D. Joel Whalen provides practical, research-based tools that apply perfectly to all professional communication, whether it's one-on-one conversations, speaking at small staff meetings, or delivering a keynote address to a ballroom full of people.




Business and Professional Communication


Book Description

Updated in its 2nd edition, Business & Professional Communication focuseson the core concepts and skills of business and professional communication, with an emphasis on leadership for today's global workplace. This comprehensive textis organized around five fundamental principles of communication, providing a useful pedagogical framework for the reader. These principles are applied to a variety of business and professional contexts, including workplace relationships, interviewing, group and team work and giving presentations.




Communicate as a Professional


Book Description

Across a wide range of programs in international higher education, students prepare themselves for a career in their professional field. Learning how to communicate as a professional is an essential part of that preparation. In order to carry out their communication tasks, professionals must possess a large repertoire of knowledge and skills. They also must be able to decide what best suits the situation and the goals they want to achieve. Already during their training, students come across a variety of communication tasks that are largely new to them. For these tasks, too, they need a broad knowledge and skills repertoire from which they can make the right choices. 'Communicate as a Professional' offers a solid foundation for students to develop the communication knowledge and skills they need, both when working as a professional after they have graduated and when following an educational program that prepares them for this future.




Professional Communication and Network Interaction


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Digital technologies and social media have changed the processes, products, and interactions of professional communication, reshaping how, when, with whom, and where business professionals communicate. This book examines these changes by asking: How does rhetorical theory need to adapt and develop to address the changing practices of professional communication? Drawing from classical and contemporary rhetorical theory and from in-depth interviews with business professionals, the authors present a case-based approach for exploring the changing landscape of professional communication. The book develops a rhetorical theory based on networked interaction and rhetorical ethics: seeing professional communication as involving new kinds of networked interactions that require an integrated view of rhetoric and ethics. The book applies this frame to a variety of communication cases involving, for example, employee missteps on social media, corporate-consumer interactions, and the developing use of artificial intelligence agents (AI bots) to handle online communication.




Professional Communication in International Settings


Book Description

In today's global business environment it is necessary tocommunicate successfully across cultural boundaries of languages,styles, and values. Professional Communication in InternationalSettings provides a practical way to help individuals deal witha variety of cultural practices by systematically developing theirown capacity to learn culturally appropriate behaviors and actions. Proposes a new approach to intercultural communication. Includes training material that illustrates how to effectivelydevelop intercultural communication. Represents the outcome of thirty years of consultationexperience as well as six years of research in Hong Kong, Finland,and Beijing.




Exploring Professional Communication


Book Description

This book will provide a comprehensive overview of the field of professional communication from an applied linguistics perspective and introduce core concepts and approaches to this key field of academic enquiry.