Iowa State University
Assignment sequencing in professional communication courses: the search for an innovative pedagogy
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>Kotler's cry for practical dialogue, rather than an exchange of complicated theories, among business communication professors is a rare one. It is not that professors in the discipline don't crave such a thing; rather their peer juries don't believe it to be a respectable quest, one weighted with scholarly worth.· Seldom do articles offering such practical advice appear in prestigious academic journals. If pedagogical practicality is included in these journals, the brief blurb (usually one paragraph) is usually confined to the last paragraph of the article, offering little chance for explanation of how to implement the theory discussed in the bulk of the article. Journals which do include pedagogical articles often consider the information less valuable to scholars than true "theoretical" articles, demonstrated by restricting the pedagogical articles to columns such as "The Scholar Who Helps Me Teach Better". or "My Favorite Assignment" (The Bulletin for the Association of Business Communication).</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts
- Level thesis:degree_level
- thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English (Business and Technical Communication)
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Department of English
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1991
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- McKnight Herr, Lynne
Rights
- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- archive/lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/18/
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:dr.lib.iastate.edu:20.500.12876/71874