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Rhetoric in Competition: The Formation of Organizational Discourse in Conference on College Composition and Communication Abstracts.
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Faber, Brenton – Written Communication, 1996
Explores features of conference proposals submitted to the Conference on College Composition in 1989, 1990, and 1992--345 abstracts in total. Results showed that successful abstracts were more likely to follow generic qualities associated with "unsolicited proposals"; foundational discourse remained constant throughout the abstracts but…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Content Analysis, Higher Education, Rhetoric
Creating Rhetorical Stability in Corporate University Discourse: Discourse Technologies and Change
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Faber, Brenton – Written Communication, 2003
Written communication scholarship has shown that successful social change requires discursive stability. This study was designed to investigate how this stability is created. Critical discourse analysis of 30 corporate university articles investigated claims authors made about the expansion of market-based values into contexts of organizational…
Descriptors: Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Social Change, Educational Change