Sumario

Acceso restringido, con credenciales UPSA

“…Energetic scholarship of this kind invigorates literary studies, encourages writers, and strengthens the genre" (Persephone Braham, University of Delaware)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Why the Essay -- Why the Journey -- Questions for the Rising Generation of Teacher-Scholars in Business Communication and in Other Academic Disciplines -- Lessons Learned From the Essays -- Collaborative Work -- An "Unending Conversation" -- References -- 2 Take Two Xanax and Call Me in the Morning -- Or, Career Tension in Business Communication -- First Conference and First Academic Job -- Assistant Professor -- Associate Professor With Tenure -- Full Professor-A New Set of Tensions -- A 17-Year Administrative Aside-1988-2005 -- The Final Chapters: 2005- -- Wrap Up -- References -- 3 Cultivating a Liberal Arts Perspective On Workplace Communication -- The Journey -- A Writing-Centered Career -- Material Culture and Rhetoric -- The Journal -- Business Communication at the University of Delaware -- Material Culture Studies: A New Position -- Rhetoric and Material Culture Studies: Research On the Workplace -- From Context to Community: Revisiting a Textbook After 20 Years -- This Is Not a Box -- Learn With Your Students -- Learn With Your Colleagues -- Work Smart -- Integrate Your Teaching and Research -- Write, Read, and Support the Writing of Colleagues -- Take a Broad Perspective -- References -- 4 "Only Connect" Between Personal Life and Professional Choice, Scholarship and Teaching, My Generation and the Next -- Connections Between the Personal and the Professional -- Links Between a Business School's Mission and the Discipline of Business Communication -- An Entrepreneurial Frame of Mind and Moment -- Translation as Cross-Cultural Communication and Political Act -- Connections Between My Students and My Work as a Teacher-Scholar: Observe, Listen, Respond, and be Entrepreneurial…”