Description

Overview:

This text focuses on using rhetoric to help students develop skills in professional communication and technical writing for technical fields such as Engineering, Agriculture, and Kinesiology. It opens with an overview of communication theory then dives into several rhetorical theories with an emphasis on the works of Bitzer, Aristotle, and Booth. These rhetorical theories are then applied to the job application process, technical correspondence, writing reports, and public speaking.

Subject:

Communication

Level:

Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division, Graduate / Professional

Material Type:

Assessment, Case Study, Reading, Textbook

Author:

Corey Owen, Rebekah Bennetch, Zachary Keesey

Provider:

University of Saskatchewan

Date Added:

12/28/2021