Business Communication Design: AND OLC Premium Content Card: Creativity, Strategies, and Solutions

"Business Communication Design" by Pamela Angell focuses on pragmatic design techniques that are easy to use, understand, and teach. The text allows instructors to integrate their course materials and ideas into flexible and comfortable business communication content. Innovative topics include useful and necessary applications of listening, culture, collaborative, and visual communication. The text presents these topics concisely in its 17 chapters, a manageable number to cover over an average college term. The text emphasizes the role of critical and creative thinking in the communication process. Students learn a systematic approach to designing messages for every business communication situation. The author offers a simple yet effective model for message design that focuses on the needs of the people involved in the communication and the circumstances of the message. "Business Communication Design" addresses the variety of communication options that modern workers face.