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Unlike all other texts in the field, which emphasize paper documents and outdated practices, only Bovée and Thill present the full range of electronic media that students will need to know to meet employer expectations.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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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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Writing in Type: The Art of Choosing Typefaces That Work

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Download this PDF file Type is all around us: reports, webpages, cell phones, television, billboards, signs, and packages, to name only a few. All of these items should be pleasant to look at and innovative enough to attract and hold the readers’ attention. Here are some secrets to accomplishing this goal.

Writing and Formatting Powerful Memos

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Among the mediums of business communication, the memo is one of those most likely to convey a sense of importance. This lesson will help you to harness the power of this medium. Click here to continue…. View the original here.

Paper Explained

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Picking out paper at the local department store is easy enough, considering that most of them stock only plain copy paper, along with the occasional stationery. However, when making the jump from white printer paper to the wide variety of papers sold by professional suppliers, many people are overwhelmed by the choices available. Paper types [...]

The Logo Design Guide

Friday, October 16th, 2009

The Logo Design Guide will give you all the necessary information to help you create good logos. There are many little aspects that make up a good logo, but there are also many small things that run a logo down.  Logo design is a very extensive subject-matter. There may be lots of pages about it [...]

Stationery Design Examples

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Here are eight interesting examples of good stationery design. The first example is for Networx. To view the other examples in the gallery, click on the thumbnail images below the Networx examples. Also click on the logo examples by way of the navigation bar on the site, and see this article on the site. View [...]

Proper Business Stationery

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

The quality of the paper, the kind of printing or engraving, the mechanical make-up–all these things contribute to the impression a letter makes upon the recipient even before the message is read. Many letters come to nothing because they’re unattractive, cheap, slovenly; and so progressive businesspeople are learning to select their stationery with care to [...]

Boost Your Image with Personalized Stationery

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

One of the most important considerations that you have when running a business is making sure that your business is recognizable to both potential and current customers. It is of prime importance to make it as easy as possible for people who might be interested in your business to find and contact you. Personalized stationery [...]

Six Proven Tips for Making Your Business Correspondence Inviting to Read

Friday, July 11th, 2008

With today’s business moving at the speed of broadband, everyone expects better results in record time. Every day, we deal with hundreds of communications in the form of e-mails, letters, phone calls, chats, and meetings—and that’s before we tackle the “to do” list. It’s no wonder that many business messages often reads as if they [...]

Report Writing: How to Format a Business Report

Monday, June 18th, 2007

IntroductionReport writing is a time consuming business so it is a great shame if, having devoted all that time to writing your report, the quality is such that hardly anyone can be bothered to read it. Frankly, most report readers do not actually read all the report; they are too short on time. You might [...]

America’s Most Fonted: The 7 Worst Fonts

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Ugly fonts, cutesy fonts,
unreadable fonts, bad
fonts . . . they have
terrorized us for far too
long, infiltrating our homes
via e-mail, IM, and low-rent
ValPak ads. Here, LMNOP
presents the seven worst
fonts–and the people who
use them.LMNOP:
America’s Most
Fonted: The 7 Worst Fonts

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