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Business Communication Quarterly

Volume 70(3), 2007


CONTENTS

Peterson, Robin T.	An exploratory study of listening practice relative to memory testing and lecture in business administration courses	285-300

	This study investigates the combined impact of a memory test and subsequent listening practice in enhancing student listening abilities in collegiate business administration courses

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Flatley, Marie E.	Teaching the virtual presentation	301-305

	Today the virtual presentation is catching on rapidly in small, medium, and large businesses alike

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Kenman, Leon F.	Tone and style: Developing a neglected segment of business communication	305-309

	The importance of tone and style to communication is attested by the longevity of the popularity of Elements of Style, published originally in 1918, with the fourth edition published in 2000

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Mahin, Linda	The philanthropic recommendation research report: Group project for Engl317, writing for business and industry	309-320

	English 317 is a second writing course designed for business majors primarily but available to all students who need to fulfill the second writing course requirement

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Pierce, Elizabeth	The proposal project	320-324

	The proposal project stretches over a signifcant portion of the semester-long sophomore course Professional Communication (ENG 250) at Monroe Commuity College

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Vik, Gretchen N.	Integrating information technology into an accounting communication class	324-327

	Our accounting communication class includes both writing and making presentations

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Briam, Carol	Teaching in West Africa: Dig beneath the surface	330-333

	With a foot locker in tow and knowing no one, I arrived by plane in Dakar, the coastal capital of Senegal, a poor, primarily Muslim country and former French colony

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Dalbey, Richard O.	Konnichiwa, Sensei (good day, professor): So you want to teach in Japan?	334-336

	From 1992 to 1994, I was a visiting professor at the Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration (Nagoya Shoka Daigaku), a private 4-year coeducational university located on the grounds of a modern campus on the outskirts of Nagoya

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Pichler, Richard J.	Teaching in Kosovo: Communication skills on the test bench	336-340

	Kosovo is a region in the heart of the Balkans with a predominately ethnic Albanian population

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Matiash, Ludmila	My education in Ukraine	341-345

	I needed help

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Schaub, Mark	It's an X thing: You'll never understand	345-349

	Without a doubt, the most rewarding teaching experiences of my career in higher education have been those when I've had the privilege of teaching at universities outside my home nation, the United States of America

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Jones, Gary, H.	Teaching in Cairo	349-352

	The way to Cairo is convoluted

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Texter, Lynne A.	Teaching abroad: Lessons learned along the way	352-356

	When my department was presented with the opportunity to teach our master's program in professional communication overseas in the beautiful city of Prague or in historic Athens, my colleagues and I made our decision very quickly

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Sisco, Lisa A., and Reinhard, Karin	Learning to see what's invisible: The value of international faculty exchange	356-363

	When I arrived at tiny Friedrichshafen airport in the early hours of Easter morning and embarked on the brief drive to Ravensburg, Germany, I was struck be a rural landscape that seemed comfortably similar to my native New England

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Kuiper, Alison	Teaching abroad - at home	363-366

	If you think about teaching abroad, you probably picture teachers in countries where they were not born

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Forman, Janis	Leaders as storytellers: Finding Waldo	369-374

	Several years ago, I worked with the senior managers of a real estate investment firm, helping them to prepare for their annual presentation to investors for the next round of funds

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Bulls, W. Kenneth II	Leading by example: A soldier's stories	374-377

	I am still intrigued by the concept and practice of leadership

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Land, Ken	Storytelling as therapy: The motives of a counselor	377-381

	Storytelling is considered an ancient cultural practice whereby storytellers bring events to life through some combination of words, sounds, and images

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Katzeff, Cecilia, and Ware, Vanessa	Video storytelling in a transient, volunteer organization	381-385

	To make sense of and learn about their work environments, people actively construct their own knowledge and share stories of their experience

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Zhu, Yunxia, and Zhang, Allee Mengzi	Understanding guanxi (connections) from business leaders' perspectives	385-389

	Guanxi, the Chinese word for personal bonds or connections, is a recurring theme in the research forum, and researchers tend to agree that it is essential to establish guanxi with Chinese businesses

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Hansen, Katharine	Propelling careers through telling stories about change	389-392

	Job-seekers who can tell stories about their ability to lead, communicate, and handle organizational change have an advantage over others in the workplace

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