Business and Administrative Communication

Business and Administrative Communication (BAC) is flexible, comprehensive & up-to-date, specific & interesting. BAC uses a rhetorical emphasis of audience, purpose, and context allowing communicators to shape their messages appropriately for all channels and purposes.

BAC conveys the best possible advice to students while Connect Business Communication allows students to apply concepts and practice skills. In short - Connect + BAC = An effective communicator

Donna S. Kienzler is a Professor Emeritus of English at IowaState University, where she taught in the Rhetoric and ProfessionalCommunication program. As the Director of Advanced Communication, she oversawmore than 120 sections of business and technical communication annually. Shewas also an Assistant Director of the university’s Center for Excellence inLearning and Teaching, where she taught classes, seminars, and workshops onpedagogy; directed graduate student programming; and directed the PreparingFuture Faculty program, a career-training program for graduate students andpostdoctoral fellows. Her research focused on pedagogy and ethics.

Kitty O. Locker was an Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University, where she taught courses in workplace discourse and research methods. She received her B.A. from DePauw University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana. She also wrote  Business and Administrative Communication (6th ed., Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2003),  The Irwin Business Communication Handbook: Writing and Speaking in Business Classes (1993), and co-edited Conducting Research in Business Communication (1988). Her consulting clients included URS Greiner, Abbott Laboratories, the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association, AT&T, and the American Medical Association. In 1994–95, she served as President of the Association for Business Communication (ABC). From 1997 to 2000, she edited ABC’s  Journal of Business Communication. She received ABC’s Outstanding Researcher Award in 1992 and ABC’s Meada Gibbs Outstanding Teacher Award in 1998.