Ari, R U there?: Reorienting business communication for a technological era

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 339-356

  Reinsch Jr , N Lamar ^a,b   Turner, Jeanine Warisse ^a,b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Pedagogy; Research; Rhetoric; Technology; Workplace

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745039769     PISSN: 10506519     EISSN: 15524574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1050651906287257     Document Type: Review

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