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Unlike all other texts in the field, which emphasize paper documents and outdated practices, only Bovée and Thill present the full range of electronic media that students will need to know to meet employer expectations.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

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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Writing Process

Five Guaranteed Ways to Hate Your Own Writing

Monday, March 8th, 2010

If you’re like the majority of writers out there, you’re a self-doubting bundle of neuroses, determined to believe that your writing will never be good enough. That’s the life of the tortured, misunderstood writer, right? What’s that? You think you’re pretty good at writing and actually like some of your own work? View the original [...]

The Writing Process–Creating

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

If you want to make your writing easier, more efficient, and more effective, then this lesson on starting the writing process by creating will help you to enhance those skills. Click here to continue…. View the original here.

How to Write With Confidence

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Every writer writes rubbish, because writing requires it. It’s part of the process of great writing. The trick then, is to find ways to keep your confidence going during the times when you can see that you’re in a writing funk. View the original here.

10 Effective Productivity Tips for Writers

Friday, July 4th, 2008

“Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.” – Gene Fowler Perhaps this is a sentiment that all writers can share to some extent. However, writing doesn’t have to be a tortuous experience akin to banging your head against a [...]

Getting Writing Done: How to Stop Thinking about It and Write

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

If you’ve researched your topic, you understand your audience and you know what you want to say, then moving to action and starting to write should be utterly straightforward and require no particular effort. Right? Not so. All writers, whether scribing for books, blogs or whitepapers, know only too well that sometimes this just isn’t [...]

31 Ways to Find Inspiration for Your Writing

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

No matter how much you love writing, there will always be days when you need inspiration from one muse or another. In fact, I would argue that inspiration is not just a desirable thing, it’s an integral part of the writing process. Every writer needs inspiration to produce inspired writing. And sometimes, it can come [...]

10 Steps to Create the Habit of Writing

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

This, friends, is the linchpin: if you can create the habit of writing, you’ve got a wonderful foundation as a writer. If you struggle to get in enough time for writing, or keep putting it off, or can never seem to write when you planned to write … you need to work on creating the [...]