Technical Communication Quarterly Oct 2013

Static to Dynamic: Professional Identity as Inventory, Invention, and Performance in Classrooms and Workplaces

M. Ann Brady ; Joanna Schreiber Michigan Technological University

Abstract

Although self-assessment is an important genre in both the academy and the workplace, it is often static. The resulting fixed identities are problematic in a creative economy that requires fluidity. Drawing on the work of Carruthers and Goffman, among others, we argue that memory and meditation, encompassing inventory and invention and coupled with rhetorical performance, constitute dynamic self-assessment.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2013-10-01
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10.1080/10572252.2013.794089
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