This four-year exploratory study was designed to investigate
whether augmenting written comments on students' busi
ness writing assignments with audiotaped remarks would
lead to improved feedback, context, and performance; save
time; and motivate student writers. The results showed that
all factors improved except time, which could not be com
pared directly to the results of previous studies.
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