Narrative and Professional Communication [Paperback]

The authors in Narrative and Professional Communication contribute innovative research in a number of areas. Their scholarship situates narrative as integral to science writing and managerial communication, and to the discourse of health-care professionals. Narrative is also viewed as important in analyzing and constructing electronic sites on the World Wide Web. Finally, narrative is seen as central to research methodologies such as those defining case studies and ethnographies and to the stories that connect people within social groups and enable them to construct themselves as human beings.

JANE PERKINS works for A. T. Kearney, a global management consulting firm. She works on communication and change management for large-scale projects, and additionally, researching and writing about the affects on the Web on organization design and strategy.

NANCY BLYER is Professor Emeritus at Iowa State University, where she taught in the rhetoric and professional communication program for 20 years. She has published in such journals asTechnical Communication Quarterlyand theJournal of Business and Technical Communication, and has been granted three NCTE awards for her work. Her continuing research interests are narrative and professional communication and issues facing the profession.