Business Rhetoric

From WPA-L (Jan 26, 2010)
Subject Heading: Readings for rhetoric in business writing?

My personal favorites, if we're talking about graduate students who
need to understand the rhetorical situation, would be some of the
'ethnographies' of business writing:

Bargiela-Chiappini, F., & Nickerson, C. (Eds.). (1999). Writing
Business: Genres, Media and Discourses. Essex, UK: Pearson Education
Limited.

Beaufort, A. (1999). Writing in the real world: Making the transition
from school to work. New York: Teachers College Press.

Boden, D. (1994). The Business of Talk: Organizations in Action.
Cambridge, England: Polity Press.

Henry, J. (2000). Writing workplace cultures: An archeology of
professional writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Matalene, C. B. (Ed) (1989), Worlds of Writing: Teaching and Learning
in Discourse Communities of Work. New York: Random House.

Odell, L., & Goswami, D. (Eds.). (1985). Writing in Nonacademic
Settings. New York: Guildford.

Spilka, R. (Ed.) (1993). Writing in the Workplace: New Research
Directions. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.