Business Communication - Hardcover

Lehman, Carol M.; Dufrene, Debbie D.

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ISBN 10: 0324375506 ISBN 13: 9780324375503

Publisher: South-Western Pub, 2007

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For more than six decades, Lehman and DuFrene's BUSINESS COMMUNICATION has established itself as the authoritative standard in the field. Marked by a concise, coherent writing style, enriched with an abundance of model documents, and organized around a unique and effective Strategic Forces Model that translates communication theory into applied best practices, the text has consistently proven its value to both instructors and students. This new edition is a dynamic response to changing expectations in both the business communication course and the workplace. The learner-centered format and new features of this edition effectively link the text with the latest teaching and learning technologies.

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Dr. Lehman is a professor of management in the Management & Information Systems Department at Mississippi State University, an AACSB-accredited school. She has more than 25 years of experience teaching business communication. Dr. Lehman earned a bachelor's and master's degrees in business education from the University of Southern Mississippi, and her doctorate from the University of Arkansas. Dr. Lehman teaches organizational communication, a core requirement for all business majors, and an MBA-level multimedia presentations course. Classroom instruction to traditional and distance students is supplemented with web accessible materials that enrich and enliven the learning experience. Her multimedia presentation students perfect design and delivery of media-rich presentations delivered to a variety of distribution points. She is actively engaged in research and a frequent presenter at the national and regional meetings of the Association for Business Communication, for which she and Dr. DuFrene sponsor the Meada Gibbs Outstanding Teacher Award. Her consulting and training activities for industry have focused on multimedia development, business presentations, and written communication. Dr. DuFrene is a department chair and professor of business communication in the Department of General Business at Stephen F. Austin State University, an AACSB-accredited school. She has more than 25 years of experience teaching business communication, including 20 years at Stephen F. Austin. Dr. DuFrene earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in business education from Nicholls State University, and her doctorate from the University of Houston. Dr. DuFrene presently teaches business communication--a core requirement for all business majors, as well as advanced business communication courses. She also frequently teaches a graduate-level business ethics course and has completed post-doctoral course work in that field. She supplements classroom instruction with web-accessible materials that enrich and enliven the learning experience for students. She has served as a business communication consultant to various organizations from the business, industry, and education sectors and also serves the Association for Business Communication (ABC) as a regional vice president. She and Dr. Lehman sponsor the Meada Gibbs Outstanding Teacher Award for the Association for Business Communication (ABC).

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