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Summary
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Examines the different ways in which online media are becoming a part of and affecting educational and professional writing practices.
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With its ability to defy temporal and geographic boundaries, Internet-based communication has swept the contemporary workplace. Those preparing students for employment must understand the discourse, issues, and complexities peculiar to computer-assisted communication and integrate Internet-based approaches in their coursework. An important premise of this book is that business and learning professionals need to have a dialogue about traditional approaches to communication in order to narrow the gap between academic competencies in business writing and actual requirements of the workplace. To this end, St. Amant (technical and scientific communication) and Zemliansky (composition and rhetoric), both James Madison Univ., compiled 14 essays by 16 authors, most of them US scholars and several experienced in workplace consultation. The editors organize the essays under six thematic sections, presenting perspectives, approaches, concepts, and issues about matters ranging from the history of teaching business writing and communication with computer technology to future trends. Each essay includes an abstract and references that invite readers to dip into the literature on the subject. Though most essays target academics, business professionals with a reflective bent will be able to apply the content in the workplace. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals. D. Truty Northeastern Illinois University
