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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Main Author: Angeli, Elizabeth L. (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Series:ATTW book series in technical and professional communication.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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"--
Physical Description:xv, 204 pages : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781315104881
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