Learning by doing: Engaging students through learner-centred activities. Business Communication Quarterly

text, visuals, and video, the tutorial is an interactive, Web-based example of active learning. The tutorial is available online. Because students learn more effectively when the context for the lesson actively mirrors the workplace, Amy Newman has created the Writeaway Hotels simulation to teach email skills. By taking on var-ious organizational roles, students learn to manage and reply to the myriad messages they will undoubtedly receive on the job. Like Gareis, Newman also provides a Web address for the site. In the final article, J. A. Rice acknowledges that students often find it difficult to consider both the rhetorical and ethical dimensions of a business scenario as they write. To overcome this problem, he describes an exercise that requires students to intentionally introduce unethical elements into their writing assignment. Using message boards, students then discuss the probable repercussions of such deception both to themselves as employees and to other organiza-tional stakeholders