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Unlike all other texts in the field, which emphasize paper documents and outdated practices, only Bovée and Thill present the full range of electronic media that students will need to know to meet employer expectations.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

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The Art of Letter Writing

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

The art of writing a beautiful letter is not unlike the art of conversation. It takes practice, elegance, humor, wit, and intimacy. The best way to begin is to study. Read some of the most well-noted love letters and letters of import or significance throughout the history of human civilization.
Humans have [...]

Memos vs. E-Mail and Letters

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

How are memos different from email and from letters? It turns out that some situations give memos a rhetorical advantage.
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A Passion for Letters

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

I have been passionate about letters and letter writing since my grandmother got me hooked at a very early age. 
I think letter writing is not only a fabulous (and inexpensive!) hobby, but is also important as a social and historical record of times gone by. Right now, today, you could be making history!

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The Lost Art of Letter Writing

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

As I wait for my next class to begin, I take out a pen and paper and start writing a letter. I tell the friend I am writing to about what I am doing and whatever is on my mind. My thoughts roll out onto the paper and will end up in [...]

How Would Einstein Use E-Mail? Letter Writers of Yore Had Same Correspondence Patterns As E-Mail Users Today

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

You’re not as different from Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin after all, at least when it comes to patterns of correspondence.
A new Northwestern University study of human behavior has determined that those who wrote letters using pen and paper — long before electronic mail existed — did so in a pattern similar to the way [...]

Hi Gramps, Here's a Printout of My E-Mails

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

At 90, Chandler Murray’s mailbox, not counting bills and solicitations, receives only a handful of seasonal letters from a few old friends. “People just don’t write letters anymore,” says his daughter Heather Bellanca. And by people, she means anyone more than 20 years younger than Murray, who lives by himself in Middlebury, Vt.
So in [...]

Jinny Jordan: Letter Writing Will Not Be My Lost Art

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

I was wading through my basement when I came across an old shoe box with letters spilling out. Some of the letters consisted of notes from my first childhood sweetheart, my best friend’s tearful goodbye when she moved away, love letters from my first real boyfriend, and countless postcards from my jet-setting friend.

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Business Writing: Don’t Ask Too Many Questions

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Yesterday I received an e-mail solicitation that was a good example of a bad technique: asking too many questions. It began with this question:

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10 Secrets for Writing Killer Complaint Letters

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Complaint letters or letters of complaint aren’t always easy to write, but they often it be well worth writing.

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Thank-You Note for Condolences

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

I have been writing lately about how to compose a condolence message and how and why to write thank you notes. This post combines the two: how to write a thank you for a condolence message.

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