ATTW Series in Technical and Professional Communication

<p>NCTE-CCCC Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication 2020</p><p><em>Rhetorical Work in Emergency Medical Services: Communicating in the Unpredictable Workplace</em> 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 skills—learned and innate—that workplace communicators use to accomplish goal-directed activity, collaborate with other communicators, and complete and teach workplace writing. </p>