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Abstract This article answers Carl Hemdl's call for furthering critical approaches to research in professional communication by forwarding Kenneth Burke's concepts of symbolic action, dramatism, and the pentad. This article illustrates, through an analysis of data gathered in a case study of technical writers, how Burke provides us with tools that can produce more varied terministic screens for how critical researchers conceptualize, interpret, and analyze workplace communication.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2002-10-01
DOI
10.1207/s15427625tcq1104_1
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  1. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
  2. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  3. Technical Communication Quarterly
  4. Technical Communication Quarterly
  5. Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric

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