Rhetorical work in emergency medical services : communicating in the unpredictable workplace /
"Rhetorical work in emergency medical services: communicating in the unpredictable workplace details how communicators harness the power of rhetoric to make decisions and communicate in unpredictable contexts. Grounded in a 16-month study in the EMS workplace, this text contributes to our theor...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2019.
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| Series: | ATTW book series in technical and professional communication.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Rhetorical work in emergency medical services: communicating in the unpredictable workplace details how communicators harness the power of rhetoric to make decisions and communicate in unpredictable contexts. Grounded in a 16-month study in the EMS workplace, this text contributes to our theoretical, methodological, and practical understandings of the situation-specific processes that communicators and researchers engage in to respond to the urgencies and constraints of high-stakes workplaces. This book presents these intricate processes and skills--learned and innate--that workplace communicators use to accomplish goal-directed activity, collaborate with other communicators, and complete and teach workplace writing"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 204 pages : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781315104881 1315104881 9781351599467 1351599461 9781351599474 135159947X 9781351599450 1351599453 |