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Langley Communications: Socializing and Snooping on E-mail.
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Rymer, Jone – Business Communication Quarterly, 1998
Presents a case study for use in business communication classes to help students understand and learn both the context and the strategies for the communication with business management. Deals with a business problem revolving around issues of appropriate e-mail use and privacy. Includes five assignments. (SR)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Class Activities, Electronic Mail
Business and Management Communication Cases: Challenges and Opportunities.
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Rogers, Priscilla S.; Rymer, Jone – Business Communication Quarterly, 1998
Introduces a special issue of this journal that presents strategic cases for use in business communication classes to help students understand both the context and the strategies for communications about business and management. Discusses instructional challenges and opportunities of teaching with cases. (SR)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Higher Education
What Is the Functional Value of the GMAT Analytical Writing Assessment for Management Education? A Critical Analysis, Part 2.
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Rogers, Priscilla S.; Rymer, Jone – Management Communication Quarterly, 1995
Analyzes the Analytical Writing Assessment's (AWA) contribution as a performance assessment. Critiques its potential usefulness as a diagnostic tool for management education. Concludes that the AWA does not meet the expectations of GMAT-user schools who endorsed the test as a diagnostic instrument for identifying student deficiencies. States that…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Criticism, Graduate Study, Performance Based Assessment
Analytical Tools To Facilitate Transitions Into New Writing Contexts: A Communicative Perspective.
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Rogers, Priscilla S.; Rymer, Jone – Journal of Business Communication, 2001
Uses essays from the Analytical Writing Assessment of the Graduate Management Admission Test to develop a set of analytical tools to diagnose students' potential problems in MBA (Masters of Business Administration) writing assignments. Finds students learned about problems in their writing and about ways to address these needs, as well as improved…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Writing Across the Curriculum
What Is the Relevance of the GMAT Analytical Writing Assessment for Management Education? A Critical Analysis, Part I.
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Rogers, Priscilla S.; Rymer, Jone – Management Communication Quarterly, 1995
Comments on the Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA), a new component of the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT). Examines the AWA's historical significance and addresses questions regarding the relevance of the writing test for management education. Finds that the AWA is of limited value as a writing assessment and will meet only some of…
Descriptors: Business Education, Higher Education, Student Evaluation, Technical Writing
The GMAT Analytical Writing Assessment: Opportunity or Threat for Management Communication?
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Rogers, Priscilla S.; Rymer, Jone – Business Communication Quarterly, 1996
Describes the new GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA), including its evaluation and the results schools receive. Reviews uses of the AWA scores and essays that have ramifications for management communication. Suggests why it is vital for communication instructors to become involved in decisions about how…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Communication, College Entrance Examinations, Communication Research
The Genre System of the Harvard Case Method.
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Forman, Janis; Rymer, Jone – Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 1999
Focuses on the case write-up insofar as it extends the concept of genre systems. Looks at the place of the case write-up in a privileged, institutionalized genre system, that of the Harvard case method, and then considers the values that the genre system fosters in its primary practitioners, management students. (SG)
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Communication, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Discussion (Teaching Technique)