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Distinguished publication on business communication.(Special Column)

Publication: Business Communication Quarterly
Publication Date: 01-MAR-05
Format: Online - approximately 764 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
DURING FIVE SUMMERS, from 1996 through 2000, Dorothy Winsor studied the work and writing practices of 18 people in the engineering center for Pacific Equipment, a manufacturer of off-highway equipment. She shadowed employees in a variety of positions--from managers to interns--to see what she...

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...could learn about the role of texts in this organization. Guiding her study were the following questions:



How do texts, and particularly generic texts, help people in various organizational roles to generate knowledge? How are texts used to create and occupy positions of power? What does this use of texts tell us about genre? How does power affect the generation of text? (p. 10)

For raising these important questions,...

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