The Effect of Instructors’ Immediate Behaviors and Clarity on Student Writing Apprehension

Stephanie Kelly North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University ; Jorge Gaytan North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Abstract

The demand for writing skills is becoming increasingly prevalent within the U.S. job market. Yet, the biggest barrier to developing successful writing skills, writing apprehension, has received very little attention from scholars in the past 30 years. The present study sought to identify the influence of instructional communicative behaviors on business students’ writing apprehension. Specifically, the study tested a model in which instructors’ immediate behaviors and clarity indirectly influenced students’ writing apprehension through the mediation of perceived immediacy. The data were consistent with the hypothesized model.

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Business and Professional Communication Quarterly
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2020-03-01
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10.1177/2329490619868822
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