Are Writing Deficiencies Creating a Lost Generation of Business Writers?

Journal of Education for Business

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 32-36

  Quible, Zane K ^a   Griffin, Frances ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

context based approach; grammar; punctuation; rules based approach; writing deficiencies

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959680330     PISSN: 08832323     EISSN: 19403356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JOEB.83.1.32-36     Document Type: Article

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