Static to Dynamic: Professional Identity as Inventory, Invention, and Performance in Classrooms and Workplaces

M. Ann Brady, Joanna Schreiber

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Abstract

Although self-assessment is an important genre in both the academy and the workplace, it is often static. The resulting fixed identities are problematic in a creative economy that requires fluidity. Drawing on the work of Carruthers and Goffman, among others, we argue that memory and meditation, encompassing inventory and invention and coupled with rhetorical performance, constitute dynamic self-assessment.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)343-362
JournalTechnical Communication Quarterly
Volume22
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 10 2013

Disciplines

  • Technical and Professional Writing

Keywords

  • Identity
  • Invention
  • Inventory
  • Meditation
  • Memory
  • Performance

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