Making academic work advocacy work: Technologies of power in the public arena

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 299-329

  Propen, Amy ^a   Schuster, Mary Lay ^b  

^a YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Advocacy work and research approaches; Community research partners; Interpreters of the public sphere; Judges and advocates; Normative structures in the courtroom; Victim impact statements

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849120141     PISSN: 10506519     EISSN: 15524574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1050651908315980     Document Type: Article

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