Jul 04, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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OAT 2300 - Business Communications
Offers extensive and detailed practice in written communications for business, industry, and professions. Creation of a variety of business forms including email, letters, memoranda, and reports. Emphasis placed on spelling, word usage, and grammar skills.
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze the task and audience for business messages.
- Apply recommended practices, checklists, and rubrics to evaluate your own writing and that of others.
- Apply the rules of Standard English including mechanics, usage, grammar, and spelling consistently.
- Choose appropriate organizational strategies (including direct vs. indirect approach).
- Compose business messages that are purposeful, informative and/or persuasive, economical, and audience (reader) oriented.
- Create messages that spotlight audience benefits.
- Demonstrate professionalism and cooperation in collaborative work projects and reports.
- Identify and implement strategies for three phases of the writing process: prewriting, writing, and revising.
- Identify specific techniques that improve communication among diverse workplace audiences.
- Locate and evaluate information resources.
- Recognize ethical and legal considerations in business communications.
- Utilize and document secondary data sources accurately.
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