Journal of Business and Technical Communication Oct 2022

Emotion, Rhetoric, and Entrepreneurial Experience: A Survey of Start-Up Community Membership

Brian Gogan Western Michigan University ; Stacy J. Belinsky Kalamazoo College

Abstract

This article connects work on emotion, rhetoric, and entrepreneurial experience as it reports findings from a questionnaire issued to 80 entrepreneurs who belong to the global entrepreneur community Startup Grind. The findings from this study offer researchers a more robust representation of the rhetorical theories that guide entrepreneurs’ professional communication practices. In particular, the authors report on the distribution and dependency between two variables: operative rhetorical theory (indicated by one of four choices) and entrepreneurial experience (indicated by number of ventures and total years of experience).

Journal
Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Published
2022-10-01
DOI
10.1177/10506519221105490
Open Access
Closed
Topics
rhetorical theory professional writing

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