Business and Professional Communication Quarterly Mar 2016

Making the Familiar Strange: Thinking Visually in a Study Abroad Course in Professional Communication

Deborah C. Andrews University of Delaware

Abstract

Business and professional communicators increasingly rely on visual thinking and design strategies to create effective messages. The workplace need for such thinking, however, is not readily accommodated in current pedagogy. A long-running study abroad short course for American students taught in London provides a model for meeting this need. Addressed to students in art and design and framed through principles of discovery learning, the course approach and assignments can be productively adapted to enhance the visual competence of students of professional communication.

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Business and Professional Communication Quarterly
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2016-03-01
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10.1177/2329490615616241
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  1. Andrews (2022)
    Designing a Course in Business Communication
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