Practicing What We Teach: Credibility and Alignment in the Business Communication Classroom

Business Communication Quarterly

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-44

  Ruppert, Bryan ^a   Green, David A ^a  

^a SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

business communication instruction; communication behaviors; instructor credibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857675943     PISSN: 10805699     EISSN: 15524191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1080569911426475     Document Type: Article

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