Recommended Texts

Unlike all other texts in the field, which emphasize paper documents and outdated practices, only Bovée and Thill present the full range of electronic media that students will need to know to meet employer expectations.

Business Communication Today,
10th Ed.

Excellence in Business Communication,
9th Ed.

Business Communication Essentials,
4th Ed.
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How These Texts Compare
Is Your Business Communication
Textbook Preparing
Students for the Future
or the Past?
Do You Know the
Fallacies about Teaching
Electronic Media?
Does Your Textbook
Cover Business
Communication 2.0?
Video:
A Fundamental Shift in the
Way We Communicate.
(See the New Media
Covered Only by
Bovee and Thill. Are You
Using the Right Text?)
A Letter to Instructors
Video:
Alert! A Paradigm Shift Is
Impacting Business
Communication Courses
Major Study: Thousands of Companies Using Social Media. Will Your Students Be Prepared to Use Social Media on the Job?
Study: 91% Using Social Media.in the Inc. 500-- America's Fastest Growing Private Companies. (Social Media Should Be Part of Your Course. Only Bovee & Thill's Texts Offer Social Media Coverage.)
Teach Your Students How to Use Social Media on the Job. (See sample pages here of Bovee & Thill's coverage you won't find in any competing texts.)
Business Communication Is Changing Due to Social Media (Are Your Students Learning about These Changes from Your Current Text?)
Hundreds of Social Media Examples
Teach Introduction to Business?

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Friday, August 27th, 2010

Never before in history has a single language been as widely used as English. The number of English users in Asia alone is more or less equal to the number of Native English speakers worldwide: 350 million, more or less the combined populations of the United States, Britain and Canada. The advent of the Internet [...]

100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Now that Dr. Language has provided a one-stop cure for the plague of misspelling, here are the 100 words most often mispronounced English words (“mispronunciation” among them). There are spelling rules in English even if they are difficult to understand, so pronouncing a word correctly usually does help you spell it correctly. Several common errors [...]

English Grammar Correction Online – Free, Quick and Efficient

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

With communication taking a leap from telegrams to text messages and from letters to e-mails, written English grammar has only become worse. Correct grammar can still be found in some official messages – that should be formal as well as semantically and syntactically correct. Communicating via the written word is a crucial part of human [...]

Useful Business English Exercises to Help You Get Ahead

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Whether you’re writing a resume, conducting a phone interview, or presenting a proposal, your success in the business world hinges upon your ability to effectively communicate your ideas. Since the English language remains difficult even for native speakers to navigate, we’ve compiled a list of helpful resources and exercises for non-native English speakers to reduce [...]

The Commonest Punctuation Error of 2008

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Of all the punctuation errors I saw this year, the most prevalent offender was this one: View the original here.

Test Your Business English

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Download this PDF file Here are 50 tests that are useful in checking a person’s business English skills. Answers are included are the end of the test.

English Grammar Lessons

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Study these grammar lessons to improve your business English. View the original here.

Students Can Learn English with English-at-Home.com

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Students can Learn English grammar, vocabulary, verbs and speaking with games, a blog, and more. View the original here.

Grammar on the Web: Some Rules of Thumb for Business

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Say you’re the CEO of a business and your project manager comes to you with his proposal that will be going out to investors, business partners, and potential clients.  Then you find that your manager has used “4” instead of “four”, “r” instead of “are”, and abbreviations such as lol, atm, and idk.  How would you [...]

Put the Ticket(s) in the Envelope(s)

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Erik wrote to me with a problem involving awkward writing. “I am hoping you can give me feedback on something I run across frequently in my job at a bank. Many of our procedures and forms use what I call ‘parenthetical plurals’ — for example, ‘Place the ticket(s) in the basket.’ When these parenthetical plurals [...]

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