The History and Development of Business Communication Principles: 1776-1916.

Carbone, Mary T.

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ERIC Number: EJ509813

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1994

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The History and Development of Business Communication Principles: 1776-1916.

Carbone, Mary T.

Journal of Business Communication, v31 n3 p173-93 Jul 1994

Discusses classical principles of style and composition as set forth by 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century rhetoric and composition authors. Shows how George Burton Hotchkiss in 1916, in the first important college business communication textbook, advocated business communication principles combining the most useful parts of modern rhetoric. (SR)

Descriptors: Business Communication, Educational History, Higher Education, Rhetoric, Writing (Composition)

Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Historical Materials; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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