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The authors tested the method with a pretest and posttest design and found that when students were held accountable for improvement (with 5% of the course grade dependent on improvement), there was a significant increase in students' ability to edit. Effectively assessing the skills of students when it comes to business writing compositions will help ease the burden. LearnTechLib - The Learning & Technology Library. & Anderson, E.S. Each writer must study his or her own writing process, learning what works when, for example, they generate ideas. The Copyright Holders of the submitted text are the Author and the Journal. The article focuses on the assessment of the productive skill of writing in the classes of academic writing at the Faculty of Informatics and Management of the University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. Business Communication Quarterly HTPN0Ai{Tu)Bha%nDM=Ib-?=[sG6|g{0Z2[Y#\qew9YyoKA]K
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