Teaching English in the Two-Year College May 2001

Helping Students Analyze Business Documents

Bonnie Devet

Abstract

Notes that student writers gain greater insight into the importance of audience by analyzing business documents. Discusses how business writing teachers can help students understand the rhetorical refinements of writing to an audience. Presents an assignment designed to lead writers systematically through an analysis of two advertisements.

Journal
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published
2001-05-01
DOI
10.58680/tetyc20011971
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Closed
Topics
multimodality professional writing

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