Portrait of the Profession: The 2007 Survey of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition<sup>1</sup>

Brown, Stuart C.; Enos, Theresa; Reamer, David; Thompson, Jason

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“…Ultimately, the project relied on a short online survey design (Couper, Traugott, & Lamias, 2001) administered via e-mail to Association for Business Communication members. Querying faculty in relation to understanding the locations and content of graduate education is common in related fields such as communication and rhetoric & composition (Applegate, Darling, Sprague, Nyquist, & Andersen, 1997, p. 115, 119;Brown et al, 2008;Covino, Johnson, & Feehan, 1980).…”

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“…Research on geographic and departmental locations of grad-uate education in business communication is limited and outdated. Business communication scholarship as a whole has not recently explored which departments and universities confer graduate degrees, as the disciplines of communication and rhetoric & composition have done for their fields (Barnett, Danowski, Feeley, & Stalker, 2010;Brown, Enos, Reamer, & Thompson, 2008). The most comprehensive work on business communication graduate education came via the members of the 1971 Graduate Studies Committee of the American Business Communication Association-a previous name for the organization that is now the Association for Business Communication (Hatch, 1973).…”

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Locations, Programs, and Content of Graduate Education in Business Communication

Carradini¹,

Baker²,

Sharp³

et al. 2020

Bus. Commun. Res. Pract.

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Objectives: This study explored locations, programs, and content of graduate education in business communication to provide guidance for prospective graduate students interested in becoming business communication faculty. Methods: The researchers conducted a survey of business communication scholars, drawing on the backgrounds and knowledge of those who currently teach and research business communication. Results: Findings indicate that 93 universities offer programs supporting graduate business communication education. This number dwarfs the 12 previously documented programs. These 93 programs are rarely called "business communication. " More respondents received training in business communication practice in master's programs than in doctoral programs, while more respondents received training in pedagogy and methods during doctoral work than master's work. The majority of respondents reported being employed by business schools despite receiving their degrees from colleges of arts and sciences, communication, or education. Conclusions: Graduate students can use the list of 93 universities to investigate possible graduate programs in business communication. Students will likely need to pursue graduate education outside of business schools, because the majority of respondents did not receive their graduate degrees from business schools. Earning a doctorate will likely give students methodological knowledge that a master's program may not provide. To bolster their experience with the context of business communication, graduate students may need to gain some experience in the practice of business communication via internship or elective business school coursework.

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Locations, Programs, and Content of Graduate Education in Business Communication

Carradini¹,

Baker²,

Sharp³

et al. 2020

Bus. Commun. Res. Pract.

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Teaching Writing in the Context of a National Digital Literacy Narrative

Bradbury

2014

Computers and Composition

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Rhetorical Cues and Cultural Clues: An Analysis of the Recommendation Letter in English Studies

Bruland

2009

Rhetoric Review

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Analysis of a collection of contemporary recommendation letters for admission to a PhD program inEnglish studies revealed differences in length, level of specificity, and rhetorical appeals that applied much more strongly to candidates' acceptance status than to gender. Across both status and gender groupings, however, candidates were frequently appraised through economic metaphors, indicating a disciplinary culture that dually approaches graduate students as immediate sources of labor and as the future of the profession. Findings from these letters should promote continued conversation about disciplinary culture and clearer guidelines for those writing and requesting recommendation letters.Letter-writing represents an enormous and long literary tradition tracing back to the Ars Dictaminis manuals of the Middle Ages and before; the academic letter of recommendation as a specific subgenre, however, has been explored by only a handful of scholars. 1 These studies have focused most frequently on cross-cultural differences (Bouton; Precht) and gender coding (Lunneborg and Lillie; Bell et al.; Cowan and Kasen; Trix et al.; and Watson). Collections of letters under study have tended to come from the social sciences (Lunneborg and Lillie; Watson), law (Precht), and medicine (Trix and Psenka). 2 What makes an analysis of recommendation letters from English studies particularly promising is that the recommenders, who by and large also come from departments of English, are themselves students of language. While authorial intention is impossible (and perhaps unproductive) to prove, it

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Portrait of the Profession: The 2007 Survey of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition¹

Cited by 7 publications

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Locations, Programs, and Content of Graduate Education in Business Communication

Locations, Programs, and Content of Graduate Education in Business Communication

Teaching Writing in the Context of a National Digital Literacy Narrative

Rhetorical Cues and Cultural Clues: An Analysis of the Recommendation Letter in English Studies

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Portrait of the Profession: The 2007 Survey of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition1

Cited by 7 publications

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Locations, Programs, and Content of Graduate Education in Business Communication

Locations, Programs, and Content of Graduate Education in Business Communication

Teaching Writing in the Context of a National Digital Literacy Narrative

Rhetorical Cues and Cultural Clues: An Analysis of the Recommendation Letter in English Studies

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