3 Cultivating a Liberal Arts Perspective on Workplace Communication
Deborah C. Andrews
I didn’t set out to teach courses in business and technical communication and do research as a scholar in those fields. Like many of my generation in our profession, perhaps especially women, I followed an apparently circuitous career path. But what at the time seemed to be discontinuities, sideways steps, and circling back looks in retrospect to be a predictable journey. Mostly, I see my career unfolding as a logical extension of my education in the liberal arts, broadly understood, and of my interest in workplaces, starting with a swimming pool, my first workplace.
The liberal arts, chief among them rhetoric, provide a perspective, ...
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