Action research and wicked environmental problems: Exploring appropriate roles for researchers in professional communication

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 272-298

  Blythe, Stuart ^a,c   Grabill, Jeffrey T ^b   Riley, Kirk ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of English and Linguistics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Action research; Community based research; Environmental rhetoric; Genre; Invention; Public; Risk communication; Stasis

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849088060     PISSN: 10506519     EISSN: 15524574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1050651908315973     Document Type: Article

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