Selections From the ABC 2025 Annual International Conference, Long Beach, California, USA: Classroom Activities for Teaching Career Readiness Skills in the Business Communication Classroom

This article presents a curated collection of nine teaching innovations presented at the Association for Business Communication 90th conference in Long Beach, California, as well as online, in October 2025. These My Favorite Assignment (MFA) presenters demonstrated various activities in helping students prepare for their careers and develop their professional skills. This My Favorite Assignment 33rd edition introduces readers to a wide variety of classroom-ready ideas that integrate career readiness tasks. Teaching support materials—instructions to students, stimulus materials, slides, rubrics, frequently asked questions, links, and sample student projects—are downloadable from the Association for Business Communication website.

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Business and Professional Communication Quarterly
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2026-01-12
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https://doi.org/10.1177/23294906251406530
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Management and Marketing Education
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Selections From the ABC 2025 Annual International Conference, Long Beach, California, USA: Classroom Activities for Teaching Career Readiness Skills in the Business Communication Classroom

Andrew Cavanaugh, D. Joel Whalen
Business and Professional Communication Quarterly
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Selections From the ABC 2025 Annual International Conference, Long Beach, California, USA: Classroom Activities for Teaching Career Readiness Skills in the Business Communication Classroom

Andrew Cavanaugh, D. Joel Whalen
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This article presents a curated collection of nine teaching innovations presented at the Association for Business Communication 90th conference in Long Beach, California, as well as online, in October 2025. These My Favorite Assignment (MFA) presenters demonstrated various activities in helping students prepare for their careers and develop their professional skills. This My Favorite Assignment 33rd edition introduces readers to a wide variety of classroom-ready ideas that integrate career readiness tasks. Teaching support materials—instructions to students, stimulus materials, slides, rubrics, frequently asked questions, links, and sample student projects—are downloadable from the Association for Business Communication website.

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