%0 Journal Article %T Using Professional Online Portfolios to Enhance Student Transition Into the Poststudent World %A McClain Watson %J Business and Professional Communication Quarterly %@ 2329-4922 %D 2019 %R 10.1177/2329490618824703 %X Although most students have learned to succeed academically, by the time they enter our business communication courses, their time as students is almost over. This article describes the challenges facing ˇ°students who will soon stop being studentsˇ± and introduces the professional online portfolio as a project which enables them to develop the confidence, the capacity, and a concrete platform with which to communicate with the world outside the black box of school %K eportfolio %K professional development %K personal branding %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2329490618824703