Mary Beth Debs

Language and Corporate Values: Teaching Ethics in Business Writing Courses.

Standard approaches to ethics in business writing courses do not adequately stress the inescapable power of language to perpetrate certain values. As prospective writers within professions and organizations, students need to learn about this power in order to use and respond to it responsibly.

Getting an Invitation to the English Table—and Whether or Not to Accept It

In this article, we trace the journey our professional writing program took from marginal area to well-supported specialty in an English department—a journey we made without sacrificing our commitment to prepare students for professional-level employment. In so doing, we explore the grounds of intellectual compatibility between our field and English studies and describe the conditions most conducive to professional writings finding a respected place in English departments.

Designing a Successful Group-Report Experience

Lisa Gueldenzoph Snyder, PhD, is an associate professor in the School of Business and Economics at North Carolina AT email: lguelden@ncat.edu.

An Engineering-Rhetoric Course: Combining Learning-Teaching Styles.

Universities originally were centers of learning. Ap proximately 150 years ago in the United States, the universities also assumed an increasingly stronger role in career preparation. The marriage of the two has been, at best, tentative and uncomfortable. Curricula which lead to professional careers, particularly in the sciences, dogmatically include a set number of elective humanities courses to provide the student with a liberal education. The liberal education, however, is often seen by students, instructors and administrators, as a re quirement separate and secondary to the goal of career preparation. Students feel themselves caught in a fragmented cur riculum. To provide a broad-based education, to motivate students toward the goal of a liberal educa tion, and to match educational needs as perceived by students, the humanities courses which have potential relevance to professional development should be modified to be included in a curriculum of career preparation.