Current Research and Insights into Professional Communication
Current Research and Insights into Professional Communication

Summary/Abstract: Professional communication has become an area of scholarly investigation, a domain in which many professionals show their proficiency or compete for a job, and a discipline offered by many reputable academic programmes. Professional communication itself has evolved into a complex, interdisciplinary construct over the last 35 years. It has been investigated, described, conceptualized and taught by many scholars who have employed older, revised, combined or new methods. It is the purpose of the present paper to discuss some perspectives on professional communication (modern, interpretive, critical, postmodern, rhetorical) and the research undertaken to find adequate methods to teach it. The paper sheds light on the methods proposed by North American and Canadian researchers, who investigated professional communication and suggested teaching solutions for the transition from academia-to-workplace in an attempt to help novices develop into performant professionals. Amongst the discussed research and teaching methods the study surveys rhetorical genre studies, activity theory, situated learning, and multimodal discourse analysis.

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