ABSTRACT

Winner of the Association for Business Communication's 2019 Distinguished Book Award

Rhetorical Theory and Praxis in the Business Communication Classroom responds to a significant need in the emerging field of business communication as the first collection of its type to establish a connection between rhetorical theory and practice in the business communication classroom. The volume includes topics such as rhetorical grammar, genre awareness in business communication theory, the role of big data in message strategy, social media and memory, and the connection between rhetorical theory and entrepreneurship. These essays provide the business communication scholar, practitioner, and program administrator insight into the rhetorical considerations of the business communication landscape.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

Business Communication at the Intersection of Rhetoric and Pedagogy

chapter 1|18 pages

Early Penmen, Secretaries, and Gmail Templates

A Critical and Historical Approach to Business Communication Genres

chapter 2|18 pages

Inventio Through Praxis

Connecting Competencies with the Canon

chapter 3|22 pages

Rhetorical Grammar in the Business Communication Classroom

Cultural Capital vs. Privileged Rhetoric

chapter 6|19 pages

The Occasion to Post

Connecting Kairos to Entrepreneurship in an MBA Business Writing Blog Assignment

chapter 7|17 pages

It’s Complicated

The White Paper as Exemplar within Complexes of Rhetorical Delivery

chapter 8|22 pages

Expressing Accountability and Organizational Ethos

Business Dress as Visual Rhetoric

chapter 9|25 pages

Theorizing the Role of Big Data Visualization

Moving Visuals from Delivery to Invention

chapter 10|18 pages

“It Felt Like Something the World Needed to See”

Organizational Social Media and the Collective Memory