Framing sustainability: Business students writing about the environment
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-30-2013
Department
Department of Humanities
Abstract
Corporate social responsibility is a topic that is increasingly incorporated into business school curricula. This article describes a study of undergraduate business majors who wrote about an environmental topic in response to an Analytical Writing Assessment question in the Graduate Management Admission Test™. Of 187 students, only 76 mentioned natural resources in their responses. The study examines this smaller corpus for stance, framing, and argument. The results indicate that the majority of those 76 students supported sustainable practices but were less adept at presenting their perspectives, invoking a personal frame over a professional one. The authors suggest ways to help students develop stronger skills in writing about corporate social responsibility.
Publication Title
Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Recommended Citation
Mathison, M. A.,
Stillman-Webb, N.,
&
Bell, S.
(2013).
Framing sustainability: Business students writing about the environment.
Journal of Business and Technical Communication,
28(1), 58-82.
http://doi.org/10.1177/1050651913502488
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/michigantech-p/2588