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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">The October 2020 issue of
<i><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jbt">Journal of Business and Technical Communication</a></i> is available! The TOC is below. Best, Jo</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="p1"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Articles</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Inductively Versus Deductively Structured Product Descriptions: Effects on Chinese and Western Readers</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">by Qian Li, Joyce Karreman, and Menno D. T. de Jong, University of Twente</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">How Large Information Technology Companies Use Twitter: Arrangement of Corporate Accounts and Characteristics of Tweets</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">by Shu Zhang, Jordy F. Gosselt, and Menno D. T. de Jong, University of Twente</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p1"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Approaches and Practices</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Legally Minded Technical Communicators: A Case Study of a Legal Writing Course</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">by Godwin Y. Agboka, University of Houston–Downtown</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="p1"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Book Reviews</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p2"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Citizenship and Advocacy in Technical Communication: Scholarly and Pedagogical Perspectives</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p3"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Reviewed by Jacob D. Richter, Clemson University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p2"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Conversational Design: A Book Apart</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p3"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Reviewed by Amy Cicchino, Auburn University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p2"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Teaching Professional and Technical Communication: A Practicum in a Book</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="p3"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif">Reviewed by John Misak, New York Institute of Technology</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;color:black">Jo Mackiewicz (“mack-uh-which” or “mack-uh-wits”)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;color:black">Professor and Coordinator, Rhetoric and Professional Communication</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;color:black">Editor,
<i><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jbt">Journal of Business and Technical Communication</a></i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;color:black">English Department</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;color:black">Iowa State University, 413 Ross Hall, Ames, IA 50011-1201</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;color:black">jomack@iastate.edu</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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