The Process Religion and Business Communication

Support for the so-called "process movement" in composition theory, which purports to offer a radically new writing pedagogy, recently has begun to appear in the business communication literature. But before business communication instructors wholeheartedly embrace the tenets of the movement, they should be aware that the process approach to writing suffers from several methodological defects, appears to be based on a number of mistakes about the nature of language and mind, and may lead to contentless courses full of solipsistic students. Examined critically, process ideas seem to have only limited usefulness in business communication; the process movement itself is more an ideology than an endeavor based on dispassionate, rational scholarly inquiry.

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