Business Communication Instruction shares the latest news, tips, techniques, and methods being used by instructors today to make their classes more rewarding and enjoyable.

Teach Your Students What to Do When Colleagues Don’t Read Anything They Write. Here Are 8 Ways to Change That.

Long emails and dense, difficult to decipher memos mean modern office communication goes ignored more often than it’s understood.

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How Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Is Transforming Business Communication

"From chatbots to targeted marketing campaigns, A. I. is quickly changing the way businesses communicate both internally and externally.

 

"Contrary to popular belief, A.I. is not a monolith, but actually a group of technologies, like machine learning, natural language processing, and predictive analytics.

 

"In this article, we look at specific A.I. applications that have revolutionized business communication."

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A Message from Court Bovee and John Thill

We hope the new year and your current term are off to a successful start. Once again, we would like to salute your efforts in helping students get ready for the communication challenges and scenarios they will face on the job.

With every new edition of the three titles in the Bovée-Thill business communication series, we look for opportunities to add topics and features to help you in this important effort—and to make the course as satisfying, entertaining, and successful as possible.

Following on the recent launch of the Fifteenth Edition of our flagship text, Business Communication Today, this feels like a great time to highlight some of the advances in our texts that help students get ready for the practices and expectations of today’s digital workplace.

Continuing our record of introducing major technological breakthroughs to the business communication course, our newest editions explore the exciting—and occasionally daunting—changes being brought about by artificial intelligence.

We refer to these innovations as intelligent communication technology, and we explore a variety of systems that students are likely to encounter during their job searches and potentially use on the job. These include augmented writing, real-time translation, virtual teammates, smart listening systems, résumé bots, and AI-assisted interviewing. We’re fascinated by the impact these technologies are beginning to have, and we think you and your students will be too.

On the subject of technology, today’s students have plenty of experience with digital, social, and visual media, but as you know not all that experience translates well to the business world. Our texts show students how to apply what they already know about media usage—and which habits they need to develop or change to succeed as professionals. For instance, our highlight box on developing professional-grade email skills points out five choices that writers need to make to graduate from social email to “business class.”

 

Speaking of the ever-evolving digital workplace, our latest editions keep up with changing business practices and contemporary employer expectations to make sure students enter the workforce primed and ready. A good example of shifting and sometimes confusing standards is the vexing question of whether to use emojis. They are widely used (and often for good reason) but not universally accepted or universally appropriate, so we offer students in-depth advice on why and when they should consider using them.

 

In addition to covering emerging topics, we continue to add features to help you and your students. (These new features are available in Excellence in Business Communication 13e and Business Communication Today 15e.)

  • Build Your Career activities guide students through creating their employment-communication packages chapter-by-chapter throughout the course so they’re ready to apply for jobs by the end of the term.

  • Apply Your Skills Now highlight boxes help students apply communication skills they are learning in this course in their other classes and in their personal lives.

  • Five-Minute Guides serve as handy reminders of the steps needed to accomplish a variety of fundamental communication tasks, from writing business email to planning reports and presentations.

Here’s a video preview of our texts. If you haven’t already done so, we invite you to order review copies. Or click here to get in-depth information on all three titles or to catch up on the latest posts from our blog.

 

We wish you and your students a positive learning experience this year!

All the best,

 

Court Bovee
John Thill

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The Most Important Rules for Using Commas Without Looking Dumb

Even the slickest grammarian struggles with proper comma use, so we compiled a list of the places in a sentence you’ll need one.".

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The Future of Meetings – Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Improve Team Collaboration

"It’s clear that artificial intelligence (AI) will be an important part of the way we communicate and collaborate in the foreseeable future.

 

"Tying in AI technologies with business communication applications such as team collaboration and unified communications can improve worker productivity, save time, and improve the overall business flow."

 

Bovee and Thill are the only business communication authors who include coverage of artificial intelligence in these textbooks:  Business Communication Today and Excellence in Business Communication. See for yourself. Visit http://blog.businesscommunicationnetwork.com/texts

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Google Releases Each State’s Most Commonly Misspelled Word | Best States | US News

"Analysts evaluated Google searches that began with ‘how to spell’ to identify the most commonly searched for word in each state. Google deemed each state’s most searched-for term its ‘most misspelled word’ and branded each state on the map with the terms.

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33 Commonly Misunderstood Words & Phrases (Infographic)

People misunderstand words and phrases all the time. This may be because of poor hearing or comprehension. Speaking informally can also cause a person to misunderstand and misuse words. This infographic will throw some light on how to avoid 33 of the most commonly misused words and expressions.

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17 Pretentious Words & What to Use Instead (Infographic)

Unlike fancy clothes, pretentious talk is likely to alienate people, not earn their admiration. This infographic tells you what not to say if you want to make a good impression. What words and phrases do you dread hearing?

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Intelligent Communication Technology: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

As one of the most powerful technologies ever developed, artificial intelligence (AI) is already influencing human life in multiple ways and promises to do so even more in the future. AI is now used in a variety of business communication applications, from message testing to employee recruiting and evaluation. Although many of these developments are …

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Intelligent Communication Technology: Social Listening Tools

Every day on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms, millions of consumers and business customers rant, rave, brainstorm, offer help, and ask for help.

 

Smart companies recognize that this global chatter is a gold mine of valuable insights, and they use social listening tools to figure out what people are saying about them and their competitors.

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