Rhetorical Work in Emergency Medical Services - 9781138097391

Taylor & Francis

Rhetorical Work in Emergency Medical ServicesCommunicating in the Unpredictable Workplace\nAuthor(s): Elizabeth L. Angeli\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138097391, 978-1138097391\nSynopsis\nNCTE-CCCC Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication 2020\n\nRhetorical Work in Emergency Medical Services: Communicating in the Unpredictable Workplace details how communicators harness the power of rhetoric to make decisions and communicate in unpredictable contexts. Grounded in a 16-month study in the emergency medical services (EMS) workplace, this text contributes to our theoretical, methodological, and practical understandings of the situation-specific processes that communicators and researchers engage in to respond to the urgencies and constraints of high-stakes workplaces. This book presents these intricate processes and skillslearned and innatethat workplace communicators use to accomplish goal-directed act.