This document provides an overview of 21 major resources for teaching business writing, including social media groups on Facebook and LinkedIn hosted by Courtland Bovee, videos and presentations on YouTube and SlideShare, blogs, magazines, and textbooks for keeping materials perpetually updated. The resources cover topics like using social media in the classroom, electronic communication, and trends in business communication.

1. Teaching Business Writing:
21 Major Resources Every Instructor Needs

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most useful and interesting business
writing materials available today.

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4. Business Communication Pictorial Gallery on Pinterest

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6. Business Communication Online Magazines

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16. Videos and Presentations on SlideShare

17. Teaching Business Communication
About This Facebook Group
Join this group and share your opinions about topics and issues important to instructors of business communication, ask
peers questions, and offer best practices for instruction. This group is hosted by Courtland Bovee.
Mission
To improve the quality of business communication and business writing instruction.
Description
This group is a discussion forum exploring all aspects of teaching business communication. Members are also
encouraged to contribute information about materials they've developed for the classroom or about new PowerPoint
programs, articles, PDFs, online videos, or podcasts.

18. Bovee & Thill’s Social Media and Electronic Communication Workshop
About This Facebook Group
Membership in this group is specifically for instructors of business communication or business writing. Workshops are
conducted by Courtland Bovee.
Mission
To improve the quality of instruction in business communication and business writing courses.
Description
Learn about electronic communication and social media quickly and easily. Members will be given opportunities to enroll in
free webinars. Plus, read the wall for the latest articles, videos, podcasts, and PowerPoints.
The changes wrought by electronic communication and social media need to be integrated throughout your course. This
workshop will show you the way social media are changing the communication process, compositional modes, relationships
between senders and receivers, collaborative writing, oral presentations, job searches, and more, and how to teach these
changes with ease.

19. Bovee and Thill’s Inner Circle for Business Communication
About This Facebook Group
This Facebook group is exclusively for adopters of textbooks by Bovee and Thill and is hosted by Courtland
Bovee.
Mission
To improve the quality of business communication and business writing instruction.
Description
As a member, you will have a first-hand opportunity to influence the evolution of our textbooks and to receive
recognition for your contributions, receive personal attention to your specific needs, develop relationships with
other adopters of our texts, receive new cases between editions, be apprised in advance of publication about
important additions or changes to our texts, and a variety of other benefits

20. Teaching Business Communication
About This LinkedIn Group
Join this group and share your opinions about topics and issues important to instructors of business communication, ask
peers questions, and offer best practices for instruction. This group is hosted by Courtland Bovee.
Mission
To improve the quality of business communication and business writing instruction.
Description
This group is a discussion forum exploring all aspects of teaching business communication. Members are also encouraged to
contribute information about materials they've developed for the classroom or about new PowerPoint
programs, articles, PDFs, online videos, or podcasts.

21. Bovee & Thill’s Social Media and Electronic Workshop
About This LinkedIn Group
Membership in this group is specifically for instructors of business communication or business writing. Workshops are
conducted by Courtland Bovee.
Mission
To improve the quality of instruction in business communication and business writing courses.
Description
Learn about electronic communication and social media quickly and easily. Members will be given opportunities to enroll in
free webinars. Plus, read the wall for the latest articles, videos, podcasts, and PowerPoints.
The changes wrought by electronic communication and social media need to be integrated throughout your course. This
workshop will show you the way social media are changing the communication process, compositional modes, relationships
between senders and receivers, collaborative writing, oral presentations, job searches, and more, and how to teach these
changes with ease.

22. Bovee & Thill’s Inner Circle for Business Communication
About This LinkedIn Group
This LinkedIn group is exclusively for adopters of textbooks by Bovee and Thill and is hosted by Courtland Bovee.
Mission
To improve the quality of business communication and business writing instruction.
Description
As a member, you will have a first-hand opportunity to influence the evolution of our textbooks and to receive recognition
for your contributions, receive personal attention to your specific needs, develop relationships with other adopters of our
texts, receive new cases between editions, be apprised in advance of publication about important additions or changes to
our texts, and a variety of other benefits

23. Bovee & Thill’s Business Communication Blog
Insights and commentary from the authors of the world’s leading business communication textbooks. Includes
links to each of Bovee & Thill’s business communication textbooks at Pearson Education, plus links to a wealth
of free materials.

24. Real-Time Updates, the only service of its kind that
keeps students’ texts perpetually up to date.

25. Business Communication Headline News
Stay on top of new technologies, important trends, and hot topics with Business
Communication Headline News, a free service.
Business Communication Headline News uses the newest Internet technologies to deliver
late-breaking news in headlines with concise summaries. You can scan incoming items in a
matter of seconds, then click through to read the full articles that interest you.
Business Communication Headline News

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