TY - JOUR AB - Employers today complain that college graduates are not sufficiently prepared, in terms of their writing skills/business communication for work in the business environment. Looks at the inadequacies of courses, examining both the traditional and non‐traditional approaches to teaching business writing. Concludes with a number of suggestions for improving the preparation of students for the corporate workplace, for example “situational” writing tasks; collaborate assignments; real‐world job titles; integrated assignments; grammar and punctuation; and writing under pressure of time. VL - 36 IS - 6 SN - 0040-0912 DO - 10.1108/00400919410065993 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/00400919410065993 AU - Thomas Susan G. PY - 1994 Y1 - 1994/01/01 TI - Preparing Business Students for Real‐world Writing T2 - Education + Training PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 11 EP - 15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 ER -