{"id":2490,"date":"2021-02-09T18:26:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T18:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/oerdiscipline\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=2490"},"modified":"2025-03-20T20:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:55:57","slug":"business-communications","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/oerdiscipline\/chapter\/business-communications\/","title":{"raw":"Business Communications","rendered":"Business Communications"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"textbox textbox--sidebar\">Last update: Mar 20\/25<\/div>\r\n<h1>Activities<\/h1>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kpu.pressbooks.pub\/businesscomms\/\">Student Engagement Activities for Business Communications<\/a> <img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2000\" src=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/oerdiscipline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2020\/09\/BCOutlineFlag-e1601489104809.png\" alt=\"This is a British Columbia created resource.\" width=\"50\" height=\"56\" \/>(CC BY-NC-SA)\r\n\r\nA compilation resource for instructors of workplace writing and oral presentations. The activities in this book can add value and energy to the classroom by engaging students in activities that support their learning. Handouts, links, activity variations, and debrief questions are included.\r\n<h1>Courses<\/h1>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/collection.bccampus.ca\/course-packs\/business-communications\/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-2000 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/oerdiscipline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2020\/09\/BCOutlineFlag-e1601489104809.png\" alt=\"This is a British Columbia created resource.\" width=\"50\" height=\"56\" \/>Business Communications<\/a> (CC BY)\r\n\r\nStudents will learn how to analyze context and audience, determine purpose, message content, visual design and media in order to create written workplace messages that can be received, understood, used and retrieved with speed and accuracy.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/collection.bccampus.ca\/course-packs\/business-communications-2\/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-2000 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/oerdiscipline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2020\/09\/BCOutlineFlag-e1601489104809.png\" alt=\"This is a British Columbia created resource.\" width=\"50\" height=\"56\" \/>Business Communications 2<\/a> (CC BY)\r\n<div class=\"description\">\r\n\r\nThis course explores the many strategies and methods one might employ to ensure important messages are communicated in a professional manner. This course establishes business communication fundamentals such as delivering bad news, writing informational reports, creating persuading messages, designing and delivering professional presentations, and preparing for employment searches.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<h1 class=\"objectives\">Textbooks<\/h1>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/open.lib.umn.edu\/businesscommunication\/\">Business Communication for Success<\/a> (CC BY-NC-SA)\r\n\r\n<em>Business Communication for Success<\/em> provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication. The text includes learning objectives, exercises, real-world examples, key terms, and post-chapter assessments. Each chapter is self-contained, allowing for mix-and-match flexibility and custom or course-specific design. The first three chapters form the core foundation for the study of oral and written business communication. The next sequence of chapters focuses on the process of writing, then oral performance with an emphasis on results. The final sequence of chapters focuses on contexts where business communication occurs, from interpersonal to intercultural and from groups to leadership.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/alg.manifoldapp.org\/projects\/open-technical-communication\">Open Technical Communication<\/a> (CC BY)\r\n\r\nThis technical communication textbook developed under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org\/about\/textbook_transformation_grants_round_3_grantees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Round 3 Textbook Transformation Grant<\/a> and updated through several follow-up grants in later rounds of grants offered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Affordable Learning Georgia<\/a>. It is a remix of the open-sourced <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prismnet.com\/~hcexres\/textbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Online Technical Communication<\/a><\/em> textbook by David McMurrey, and it has been known under its original title, <em>Sexy Technical Communication<\/em> as well as its current title: <em>Open Technical Communication<\/em>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub\/orgbuscommunication\/\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-729\" src=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/oerdiscipline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2017\/11\/icons8-canada-map-50.png\" alt=\"This is a Canadian created resource\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>Organizational Business Communication<\/a> (CC BY-NC)\r\n\r\nThis book is an inclusive guide to writing in the workplace. The book takes a process-oriented, storytelling approach to composition: focusing less on genre and more on the decisions that effective business communicators make. It also contains interactive H5P activities for students to test their learning, and activities for further reflection that instructors can use in the classroom or assign as homework.","rendered":"<div class=\"textbox textbox--sidebar\">Last update: Mar 20\/25<\/div>\n<h1>Activities<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kpu.pressbooks.pub\/businesscomms\/\">Student Engagement Activities for Business Communications<\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2000\" src=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/oerdiscipline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2020\/09\/BCOutlineFlag-e1601489104809.png\" alt=\"This is a British Columbia created resource.\" width=\"50\" height=\"56\" \/>(CC BY-NC-SA)<\/p>\n<p>A compilation resource for instructors of workplace writing and oral presentations. The activities in this book can add value and energy to the classroom by engaging students in activities that support their learning. Handouts, links, activity variations, and debrief questions are included.<\/p>\n<h1>Courses<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collection.bccampus.ca\/course-packs\/business-communications\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/oerdiscipline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2020\/09\/BCOutlineFlag-e1601489104809.png\" alt=\"This is a British Columbia created resource.\" width=\"50\" height=\"56\" \/>Business Communications<\/a> (CC BY)<\/p>\n<p>Students will learn how to analyze context and audience, determine purpose, message content, visual design and media in order to create written workplace messages that can be received, understood, used and retrieved with speed and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collection.bccampus.ca\/course-packs\/business-communications-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/oerdiscipline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2020\/09\/BCOutlineFlag-e1601489104809.png\" alt=\"This is a British Columbia created resource.\" width=\"50\" height=\"56\" \/>Business Communications 2<\/a> (CC BY)<\/p>\n<div class=\"description\">\n<p>This course explores the many strategies and methods one might employ to ensure important messages are communicated in a professional manner. This course establishes business communication fundamentals such as delivering bad news, writing informational reports, creating persuading messages, designing and delivering professional presentations, and preparing for employment searches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"objectives\">Textbooks<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.lib.umn.edu\/businesscommunication\/\">Business Communication for Success<\/a> (CC BY-NC-SA)<\/p>\n<p><em>Business Communication for Success<\/em> provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication. The text includes learning objectives, exercises, real-world examples, key terms, and post-chapter assessments. Each chapter is self-contained, allowing for mix-and-match flexibility and custom or course-specific design. The first three chapters form the core foundation for the study of oral and written business communication. The next sequence of chapters focuses on the process of writing, then oral performance with an emphasis on results. The final sequence of chapters focuses on contexts where business communication occurs, from interpersonal to intercultural and from groups to leadership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alg.manifoldapp.org\/projects\/open-technical-communication\">Open Technical Communication<\/a> (CC BY)<\/p>\n<p>This technical communication textbook developed under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org\/about\/textbook_transformation_grants_round_3_grantees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Round 3 Textbook Transformation Grant<\/a> and updated through several follow-up grants in later rounds of grants offered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Affordable Learning Georgia<\/a>. It is a remix of the open-sourced <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prismnet.com\/~hcexres\/textbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Online Technical Communication<\/a><\/em> textbook by David McMurrey, and it has been known under its original title, <em>Sexy Technical Communication<\/em> as well as its current title: <em>Open Technical Communication<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub\/orgbuscommunication\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-729\" src=\"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/oerdiscipline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2017\/11\/icons8-canada-map-50.png\" alt=\"This is a Canadian created resource\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>Organizational Business Communication<\/a> (CC BY-NC)<\/p>\n<p>This book is an inclusive guide to writing in the workplace. 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