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Targeted Feedback With MindTap Bongo Activities

Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday’s students are navigating some steep challenges — tough competition in the job market, the growing presence of GenAI and daily social pressures that come with this. Dr. Elizabeth Hanson Smith,...

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How to Teach Ethics (Without Any Eye-Rolling)

Amy Newman is a senior lecturer emerita from Cornell University, SC Johnson College of Business, and author of Business Communication and Character, 11e and Building Leadership Character. We want students to...

A SWIFT Kick to the Russian Financial System

Michael W. Brandl is a Professor of Instruction in the Department of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. This post is a modified version of an article that originally appeared...

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4 Intro to Business Discussion Questions to Engage Students

Marcella Kelly is a Business Professor at Santa Monica College and Cengage author Now more than ever, finding engaging Introduction to Business discussion questions can feel trying. After two years of...

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Connecting During COVID: How to Repurpose Your Teaching Toolbox

By: Courtney Pham, Senior Marketing Instructor, Missouri State University The year 2020 was strange and challenging. The pandemic came fast, furious and unexpectedly to the global community and affected industries around the...

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Why Don’t People Respond to Your Emails?

Students know how it feels: you spend hours crafting the perfect email—and then nothing. You refresh and refresh, check on your phone, laptop, and desktop. We know how it feels. Here are three...

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Using Transitions for Paragraph Cohesion

Good paragraphs are built by using transitional expressions to glue ideas together, creating a logical and cohesive whole. Skilled writers use several techniques to make paragraphs stick together. One such technique is...