BA 250 Resources

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BA 250 Resources
Scroll down the desktop or select a topic of interest: Selected Electronic Books -- Periodical Databases -- Selected Books in Busse Library -- Selected Websites Selected Electronic Books
	Arthur, Diane. The Complete Human Resources Writing Guide. New York: AMACOM Books, 1997. Carey, John A., and Jim Dugger. Business Letters for Busy People: Tim Saving, Ready-to-Use Letters for Any Occasion. Franklin Lakes, NJ: Career Press, 2002. Goodman, Michael B. Corporate Communications for Executives. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998. Hall, George. How to Present at Meetings. London: BMJ Books, 2001. Harkins, Philip J. Powerful Conversations. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 1999. Harvard Business Review on Effective Communication. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1999. Kounalakis, Markos. Beyond Spin. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass, 1999. McManus, Judith A. Effective Business Speaking. New York: LearningExpress, 1998. Rotondo, Jennifer, and Mike Rotondo. Presentation Skills for Managers. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2001. Schneiderman, Ron. A Manager's Guide to Wireless Telecommunications. New York: AMACOM Books, 1999. Vicker, Lauren. The Fast Forward MBA in Business Communication. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1999.
Periodical Databases
	Ebsco Databases (password required) Ebsco Academic Search Premier -- Contains full-text articles for over 3,400 scholarly journals and is the world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database. Subject areas include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, languages, linguistics, arts & literature, medicine, and ethnic studies. Ebsco Business Source Premier -- Contains over 2,700 full text scholarly journals covering areas of management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and other interests. Some 200 publications have full contents dating back to 1965. FirstSearch Databases (password required) After you key in your login and password, you will need to select again from the list of available databases on the search screen. To do this click on the dropdown menu in: Jump to Advanced Search: Select a Database to Search. Select the required database and begin your search. You may initiate an InterLibrary Loan request from FirstSearch databases to the Busse Library. Use the linked NOTE 13A: Searching the FirstSearch Databases for help in using the databases. ArticleFirst - Index to citations from of over 12,600 journals. Tips on using this database. GPO Advanced Search - Index to information printed by the US Government Printing Office. Tips on using this database. World Almanac - Facts and figures World Almanac - Facts and figures WorldCat - Over 30 million catalog records of books and audiovisuals held in libraries around the world. A good way to see if a book has been published on a topic which you may want to borrow through InterLibrary Loan. Remember to select books with at least 15 library holdings indicated. Tips on using this database. Academic Universe: Business Information: Lexis-Nexis. (password required)
Selected Books in Busse Library
	Bittleston, John. The book of business communications checklists. New York: Wiley, 1982. HF5356 .B5x 1982 Dixon, Nancy M. Common knowledge: how companies thrive by sharing what they know. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, c2000. HD58.82 .D585 2000 Eckhouse, Barry Edward. Competitive communication: a rhetoric for modern business. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. HF5718 .E25 1999 Estabrooks, Maurice. Electronic technology, corporate strategy, and world transformation. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1995. HC79.I55 E85 1995 Mead, Richard. International management: cross-cultural dimensions. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Business, 1994. HD62.4 .M4 1994 Morrison, Terri. Kiss, bow, or shake hands: how to do business in sixty countries. Holbrook, MA: B. Adams, c1994. HF5389 .M67 1994, Ref. Storti, Craig. Cross-cultural dialogues: 74 brief encounters with cultural difference. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, c1994. GN345.6 .S76 1994 Tannen, Deborah. Talking from 9 to 5: how women's and men's conversational styles affect who gets heard, who gets credit, and what gets done at work. New York: W. Morrow, c1994. HF5718 .T36 1994 Thiederman, Sondra B. Profiting in America's multicultural marketplace: how to do business across cultural lines. New York: Maxwell Macmillan, c1991. HF5718 .T457 1991 Whalen, D. Joel. I see what you mean : persuasive business communication. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, c1996. HF5718 .W467 1996 Winslow, Charles D. FutureWork: putting knowledge to work in the knowledge economy. New York: Macmillan, c1994. HD31 .W559 1994
Selected Websites
	Association for Business Communication Bibliography for Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication. -- By W. Scott Thune, Professor, Iowa State University Business Communication Quarterly English for Professional Communication -- site from the English Center, The University of Hong Kong Society for Technical Communication
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