Annotated Bibliography

Sheahan, Kyra. "What Role Does Business Communication Play in Your Day-to-Day Activities at Work?" Small Business. Demand Media, n.d. Web. 12 Mar. 2014. In this website, the information that is given to me consists of just basic background knowledge on business communication. The website then talks about building rapport, resolving conflicts, and meetings in that order. The author describes what each one is and then what it means to a business man or woman in the day-to-day operations of a business.

Rugina, Sylvia. "What Role Does Business Communication Play in Your Day-to-Day Activities at Work?" Small Business. Sunday Times, 10 Aug. 2010. Web. 12 Mar. 2014. This website goes deeper into the reasons of how much communication in a business is imperative for its success. The author also goes into more varieties of communication in the business world and the “not in the workplace” forms of communication. She then describes how to display and promote that style of communication in the workplace and the paragraphs after.

Thorbs-Weber, Brenda. Personal Interview. 25 Mar. 2014. Brenda is my business advisor and has plenty of experience in business field, so I got the okay to poke at her and use her information for my research. She used to work for a firm in Florida before she settled and moved back to Iowa to be an advisor. The personal experience she had will be able to answer my research question and much more. I plan on talking with her after spring break!

Klinger-Wieland, Kathryn. Personal Interview. 27 Mar. 2014. Kathryn is a MIS business career service director and she has the knowledge of what is expected in my major for communication. Kathryn has some experience in the field, but mostly has done plenty of research to help college students know what they’re getting into when they get a job in the major. I will use her research to help answer my research question and get a little more knowledge into my field.

"The Importance of Good Communication Skills in Business." Street School Atom. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Mar. 2014. This website brings up the more personal side of business communication, the part of communication where you keep a good relationship with clients and suppliers of business. This article also describes the important three rules of communication in business, which seems to be a recurring theme. The article then continues to build upon how good communication and healthy communication and lead to higher team morale and more productivity. It ends with basically saying that communication is a necessity that you run into every day and its hinges on your efficiency.

Morley, Miranda. "The Importance of Communication in Business Management." Small Business. Demand Media, n.d. Web. 12 Mar. 2014. This article starts to describe the processes of the business communication and why it’s used the way it is used. The article also describes some good traits of a communication in the business workplace, it goes more in depth on the types and audience of communication too. The author in this piece is describes a very broad aspect of every topic that I explained, not very specific information.

Jones, Eric. "Businesses Need to Understand the Importance of Communication." Businesses Need to Understand the Importance of Communication. Insperity, 14 Oct. 2011. Web. 12 Mar. 2014. This article sums up what the other articles I cited didn’t explain too well. It goes more in depth on why certain personal communications are more important and fragile than public communications. The author then goes into explanation on what certain types of good communication there are, and what they influence and start for business. The article finishes up on the topic of why the client based communication is the foundation of a business and helps explain what good forms of that communication is.