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Article: Community service learning increases communication skills across the business curriculum. (community service projects)
- Article from:
- Business Communication Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
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"Do, do, do" is the method that John Dewey advocated as the most successful for learning (Dewey, 1938). Communication professors are not strangers to this concept - we know that the best way for our students to learn writing and speaking skills is through practice. Unfortunately, within the timespan of one brief semester, we are pressed to present all the material that students will need in their careers and hope that students acquire critical skills from a few assignments that provide practice for key writing and speaking skills.
How can communication skills be continually practiced so that our business students are well-qualified communicators as they graduate and ...