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Rethinking post-communist rhetoric : perspectives on rhetoric, writing, and professional communication in post-Soviet spaces / edited by Pavel Zemliansky and Kirk St.Amant.

Van Pelt Library LB2369 .R48 2016
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Zemliansky, Pavel, editor.
St. Amant, Kirk, 1970- editor.
Series:
Communication, globalization, and cultural identity
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Academic writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--Europe, Eastern.
Academic writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--Russia (Federation).
Business writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--Europe, Eastern.
Business writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--Russia (Federation).
Academic writing--Study and teaching (Higher).
Business writing--Study and teaching (Higher).
Business writing.
Academic writing.
Eastern Europe.
Russia (Federation).
Physical Description:
xvi, 237 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]
Summary:
This collection examines the forces and factors affecting rhetoric, writing, and communication expectations in the nations of the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. The chapters provide readers with a broad foundation for understanding the various overarching and interlocking contexts that affect perceptions of and practices involving communication studies and expectations in the once Communist nations of Eastern Europe. This approach also provides researchers, teachers and students with ideas and methods for engaging more effectively with this topic area and with individual from these nations. Book jacket.
Contents:
Introduction: re-writing the globe for the post-Soviet age: rhetoric, writing, and professional communication after communism in Eastern Europe / Pavel Zemliansky and Kirk St. Amant
Institutional contexts. A survey of academic and professional writing instruction in higher education in Russia and Ukraine / Pavel Zemliansky and Olena Goroshko
Introducing western writing theory and pedagogy to Russian students: the writing and communication center at the new economic school / Kara M. Bollinger
Technical and communication in Russia / Tatjana Schell
Workplace contexts. Russian education in the twenty-first century: establishing links with the global community / Alla V. Kourova
Rhetoric in technical communication: Europe and the United States / Yevgen Borodkin
Visible and invisible boundaries: documentation requirements for opening a foreign representative office in Russia and in the United States / Natalia Matveeva and Elena Bespalova
Geopolitical contexts. Mapping professional and technical communication in German higher education in the Neue Länder since 1989 / Steffen Guenzel
Macro acceptance, micro resistance? perspectives from Serbian writing: teachers on the Bologna process / Brooke Ricker Schreiber
Multimedia contexts. Creating a multinational collaborative online community in high-tech marketing domain in Ukraine / Taras Danko
Media usage pattern and trust in media among young people in a large Russian city / Nikolai Balykov and Doan Modianos.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Rethinking post-communist rhetoric.
ISBN:
9781498523370
1498523374
OCLC:
934503191

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