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Effective
Business Writing
- Your ability to communicate in writing, will
factor into your grade in any online business class.
- Effective business writing is clear, concise,
fact-based and specific. Your instructors are busy professionals.
Do not waste their time with wordy, imprecise, hard-to-understand
communications.
- Practice your written communication skills
in every email and assignment you send your instructor.
- Review and edit each assignment at least
three times before sending it to me. Standards for your writing
will get higher as the course progresses. So if you are still
making the same errors plan on seeing lower grades.
- One, Two, Three-You're home free!
1) Write first draft.
2) Review thoroughly later in the day making first edits. Read s
l o w l y as if seeing it for the first time.
3) Review again the next day. By this third reading you should
have polished your work significantly from draft. Give yourself
credit for what sounds great. Concentrate on those thorny passages
that impede readability.
- Feeling brave? Have someone else read your
assignment, too. Ask for their honest feedback. Give them a
red pen to encourage suggestions.
- Use MS Word's spelling and grammar checker
[Text menu].. Although it may be slow at first, this tool will
give you unbiased feedback. Use it for every assignment. Good
writing comes from practice and persistence. [Go to preferences,
select spelling and grammar. Set to Formal style. Check off "check
spelling' and "check grammar"]
- Choose the proper format for your letters,
memos, reports, and emails. Your text shows many sample documents,
which you should use in your assignments.
- Lower your shields! Don't
be defensive about the comments you receive. The goal is
to provide you with relevant feedback to improve your writing.
Instructors read assignments as if they were your supervisor
at work. "Do I want this person representing my company?"
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Good Study Skills
- Accurately reading and following instructions is a life skill!
Read instructions and review required formats at least twice
before you start any assignment. Then review them again before
you sending your work. You will lose points if your assignment
is incorrect in content or format.
- "I work better under pressure!" Don't believe it!
Don't procrastinate! For most of us the quality of our work
goes down, the closer we get to a deadline.
- Review assignments several days before due date.
- Contact your instructors during normal working hours. Instructors
are not on 24/7 schedules. Not all instructors log in on the
weekends. Plan on 24 to 48 hour turn on questions. Be as specific
as possible with your question. "I don't understand. Can
you please explain what you want?" is not a good question.
- Off-site study skills links
- We strongly suggest you visit Study
Guides and Strategies -a site maintained by Joe
Landsberger as an educational public service.
- Here's a link for Online
Student Tutorial from Grant MacEwan College which
discusses the specialized study skills necessary for
the online learner.
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Starting Class
- Begin by reviewing the material posted here.
- You must have the textbook to complete the course. Review
the required text list. You should have
the book in your possession at the start date. You will not
receive extra time to secure a text.
- If you need technical assistance at any time, contact the
SCC Help Desk by phone at 480-423-6274 or by email at helpdesk.its@sccmail.maricopa.edu.
It is the student's responsibility to contact the help desk
to solve any technical issues or questions concerning:
- email,
- how to send attachments,
- hardware compatibility or
- browser issues on a timely basis.
- You will not get extra time to complete assignments due to
technical difficulties unless the problem is caused by SCC.
- Any questions related to class must be directed to
your instructor first. Not the Business Department staff.
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Responsibility
ASSIGNMENTS:
- All class materials [lectures, links, assignments] are posted
on the web for your access any time between start and end dates.
You are not required to log in at any specific time or day.
- You will send completed assignments as attachments to email.
- You must do assignments using MS Office products, Word, Excel,
and Powerpoint. If you do not have this software, you should
drop the class now.
- Include your last name and course number in the subject line
of every email. [Smith, GBSXXX, Week 2]. Do not leave subject
line blank. Instructors have many students and multiple s.
- Print a hard copy of the syllabus and follow all due dates
and instructions carefully. Please note, weekly due dates and
policy for late assignments.
- Review assignments well in advance of due date. Don't email
with a question on Saturday or Sunday night hoping to hear back
in time for a Monday noon due date.
- You are responsible for getting assignment to instructor. You
will not receive extra time because you sent email without assignment
attached or because you sent it to the wrong email address. You
are responsible for following up with your instructor if you
do not get a "received" message confirming the safe
arrival of all assignments from your instructor.
- Print out each weekly assignment page and check off assignments
as completed, sent and returned by instructor. It is your responsibility
to turn in all assignments listed. The instructor will not alert
you to missing work.
COMMUNICATION:
- Email is how we communicate in an online class. Do not expect
to talk by phone.
- You must communicate in a timely and effective manner. You
are taking a college class, communicating with an instructor...we
expect you to raise your personal communication style to meet
that level.
- Check your email daily. In an accelerated class we can't
waste time trying to make contact.
- We will only use one of your email accounts for this class.
So if you prefer to use another account let us know.
- Contact your instructors during normal working hours. Instructors
are not on 24/7 schedules. Not all instructors log in on the
weekends. Plan on 24 to 48 hour turn on questions. Be as specific
as possible with your question. "I don't understand. Can
you please explain what you want?" is not a good question.
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Student
Support
Student concerns with class operations or materials must
be directed to the instructor first. Not the Business Institute staff. If
discussion with instructor does not resolve the issue, please
provide a synopsis of your concerns to Jessica at jessica.morris@sccmail.maricopa.edu to
have your concern forwarded to the appropriate member of our
staff.
- Click
here to view Support Services at the Scottsdale Community
College main campus.
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Technical Support
- If you need technical assistance at
any time, contact the SCC Help Desk by phone at 480-423-6274, link
for Help Desk home page or by email at helpdesk.its@sccmail.maricopa.edu. It
is the student's responsibility to contact the help desk
to solve any technical issues or questions concerning:
- email,
- how to send attachments,
- hardware compatibility or
- browser issues on a timely basis.
- Students are expected to be proactive given
the short duration of the class.You will not get extra time
to complete assignments due to technical difficulties unless
the problem is caused by SCC.
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