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Duggan, M. (n.d.). Business writing.(PULSE). Solid Surface, 11(5), 28–29.

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This piece of writing is aimed at students based on the fact that this passage comes from
a textbook and the way in which the author articulates his ideas. He also expresses his thoughts
in an easy to understand manner. This source is useful because it starts out by giving you a
reason to want to improve your business writing and then gives you six easy tips to improve.
The six tips are easy to understand and follow along to and will helps make your writing more
business-like.

Rieber, L. (n.d.). Using Peer Review to Improve Student Writing in Business Courses. Journal of
Education for Business, 81(6), 322–326. doi:10.3200/JOEB.81.6.322-326
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3200/JOEB.81.6.322-326?needAccess=true
This piece of writing is aimed at mainly students, but anybody that wants to use peer
review to help improve their writing can use this piece to help them. This source is not as useful
as others because a majority of it is focusing on peer reviewing and why that is helpful. Where
the article is extremely useful is when the author specifically focuses on how peer review can
assist a business student.

Stowers, R., & Barker, R. (2003). Improved Student Writing in Business Communication
Classes: Strategies for Teaching and Evaluation. Journal of Technical Writing and
Communication, 33(4), 337–48. doi:10.2190/02MT-8NUL-KVHR-8R7M
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2190/02MT-8NUL-KVHR-8R7M
This article is aimed at students since it is in the title and the way the author presents
his points and discusses them is an easy to understand and digestible way for students. The
article is useful because it gives the reader advice to help better communicate their point in
writing in six easy steps. Goals, invest time early, make assignment expectations clear, establish
connections, tailor to audience, and evaluation. Then after bringing up these strategies the
author goes into detail on each one and how to utilize each and get the most out of them.
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Washington, M. (2014). The Impact of Writing Assignments in Business Education: Toward a

Competitive Advantage in the Workplace. American Journal of Business Education, 7(3), 265–
270. doi:10.19030/ajbe.v7i3.8748
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This piece is aimed towards upper level students that are getting ready to graduate
because of the focus on the writing in the workplace. This article is useful because it focuses on
real-world applications of business writing. The article first discusses the preparations students
go through for writing in the workplace from three perspectives, then after goes on to explain
how these different perspectives work together to shape what business writing is.

Hollis-Turner, S., & Scholtz, D. (n.d.). Business writing in academic and workplace
contexts. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 28(3), 239–245.
doi:10.2989/16073614.2010.545026
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This piece is aimed towards any student or even someone who runs a business since is
discusses whether or not college business courses are preparing students to write in the
workplace. This article is useful because it first discusses what is expected from higher
education writing and workplace writing and the audiences behind each. The author then
explains what college courses are missing when training students for real jobs and presents the
reader with improvements that could be made.

Carnes, L., Awang, F., & Smith, H. (n.d.). Assurance of Learning in a Writing-Intensive
Business Course. Journal of Case Studies in Accreditation and Assessment, 4.
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1060616.pdf
This article is aimed towards any business student or a teacher teaching a business
writing intensive course. This article is helpful because it addresses everything that should be
brought up and taught about in a business writing course. The article list out what a student
should know to be able to accurately write professional business writing. It also discusses what
a student should be able to accomplish after one of these courses and how it will come back in
a real job.