Business and Professional Communication Quarterly Dec 2022

Writing Apprehension in the Online Classroom: The Limits of Instructor Behaviors

Jorge Gaytan North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University ; Stephanie Kelly North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University ; Wiley S. Brown North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Abstract

In response to COVID-19, educational stakeholders are transferring traditional, face-to-face instruction to the online learning environment. The purpose of this study was to determine if business instructors’ use of immediate behaviors and clarity, which have been found to help business students overcome their writing apprehension in the face-to-face learning environment, can also be used to help business students to overcome their writing apprehension in an online learning environment. Findings indicated that instructor immediate behaviors and clarity are not interventions for writing apprehension in the online learning environment. The instructional strategies business instructors rely on in the face-to-face classroom did not have the same meaning or effect on the online classroom.

Journal
Business and Professional Communication Quarterly
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2022-12-01
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10.1177/23294906211041088
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