Contributes to rhetorical scholarship by analyzing the life and work of the intellectual, quiet, enigmatic civil rights leader Robert Parris Moses. Analyzes Moses's substantive message, personal persona, and second persona as synergistic and reciprocal elements of reconstitutive identification by understanding his rhetorical goals and the…

Presents a study that asked business professionals and business faculty to critique and evaluate a set of writing samples. Analyzes results from the two groups. Finds that both groups emphasize organization, but professionals also emphasize wording/style, content, and sentence structure more than do faculty, who emphasize conciseness,…

Tests the learning-loss scale experimentally to examine the relationship between students' reports of their own learning and their performance on a standard exam. Identifies a moderately strong validity coefficient between students' performance on a recall test and reports of how much they believed they learned during a lecture. (SR)

Uses discourses on "computer-phobia" and "computer addiction" to describe the cultural work involved and marketing strategies used between 1960s-1990s regarding management of computer fear. Draws on popular discourses, advertisements, and advice literature to explore how the personal computer was successfully connected to middle-class family…

Reviews stereotypes of Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) in television news. Investigates the significance to image-making of stereotypes, visual deconstruction and reconstruction, close-up shots and spectator positioning, as well as news recycling and repetition. Argues that such strategies reify a mediated collective memory of HRC which is…

Examines the formation of group norms in computer-mediated communication (CMC) among students who used e-mail as part of a course. Shows that norms prescribing a particular use of technology are socially constructed over time at the level of locally defined groups, and also shows that the influence of these norms is limited to the boundaries of…

Contributes to scholarship advancing the understanding of human communication. Examines how journalists construct their authority to tell moralizing stories. Shows how journalists construct a discursive strategy asserting their right to serve as moral agents on two levels: as "institutional we," determining the "facts," and as…

Compares the scientific papers produced by two research teams during the AIDS virus hunt. Investigates the "fine line between a bold, explicit rhetoric that may convince as well as offend and a bald, reserved rhetoric that may actually conceal important implications." Demonstrates that going too far across the line in either direction…

Analyzes Antoinette Brown Blackwell's Oberlin College correspondence with Lucy Stone. Explores how these 19th-century women developed a shared feminist consciousness, how they explored their identity as women, became aware that others shared their experiences, and felt empowered to enact specific changes in society. Argues that…

Describes reflective spectator judgment with respect to political judgment and rhetorical theory, and then proposes a method of stylistic analysis that may help to identify discursive features enabling reflective spectator judgment. Illustrates these discursive features (described as participatory forms) by performing a stylistic analysis of…

Illustrates how the marketplace metaphor has multiple referents within and across different levels and subcultures in the organization (using a case study of micro-economic practices within a medium-sized four-year undergraduate college). Highlights interplay between organizational structure and symbolic actions, illustrating ways in which gender…

Reports a study involving five groups of stake holders who used the two different electronic meeting techniques to discuss ways of improving a local private school. Finds that participants preferred electronic gallery writing over electronic poolwriting because of the former's ability to show users all of the groups' comments at the same time. (SR)

Reviews the impact of the Association for Business Communication on development of business communication as an academic discipline in areas such as nurturing teachers; establishing advanced courses, majors, and PhDs in business communication; providing access to communicators in business; providing a voice for the profession; and facilitating…

Investigates verbal adaptive strategies employed for mutual orientation and management of role relationship in dyadic conversations involving undergraduate students (American and East-Asian nonnative speakers of English). Finds that dyad types were differentiated by significantly different levels of interaction involvement, different amounts and…

Investigated effects of stuttering on gesture for adults and children. Found through transcription of videotaped narratives that during bouts of stuttering, the coexpressed gesture always waits for fluent speech to resume. Also found that the lower ratio of spoken words to coexpressed gestures for children may be due to lower attentional/cognitive…