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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hi everyone (with apologies for cross-posting),</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I'm happy to share a CFP for graduate students in the general field of business and professional communication. Please feel free to reach out to me off-list with questions.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Graduate Studies Committee of the Association for Business Communication (ABC) invites graduate students to submit proposals for
the Graduate Studies Sponsored Panel at our upcoming conference, the 89th Annual International Conference that will take place in person on October 1619, 2024, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Graduate students will find a welcoming group of researchers, teachers, professionals,
and fellow graduate students at the conference.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ABC is dedicated to graduate student development and provides numerous benefits to graduate students. These benefits include waivers
of all conference registration fees for those who register early, conference travel scholarships, the
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.businesscommunication.org/page/graham" id="OWA5d6a5779-b237-65d7-bb18-9374eaf71c49" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Marty
Baker Graham Research Grant</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to help graduate students complete a dissertation, an annual
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.businesscommunication.org/p/cm/ld/fid=253" id="OWA1dabccb0-8402-6840-fe7d-fab3b238ce45" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Outstanding
Dissertation award</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and connections for the job search process.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The theme of the panel is The Pulse of Progress: Amplifying Business Communication for Impact. Graduate students are often engaged
in boundary-pushing and field-expanding work. This panel hopes to highlight those contributions of graduate students to business and professional communication scholarship. Within the context of business and professional communication, possible topics could
relate to the following:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* innovative pedagogy</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* digital communication</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* social media</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* visual communication</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* interpersonal communication</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* team communication</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* crisis communication</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* globalization</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* ethics</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* other topics of related interest</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We are especially interested in proposals that focus on digital issues. These topics can be approached via a wide variety of theoretical
lenses and methodological approaches.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">To submit a proposal, submit a 500-word abstract to
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this form</a> by Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Beyond your title and abstract, the form will ask for your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and a description of your presentation in 50 words or fewer that will be included in the program if your proposal
is selected. You will receive a decision about your abstract by Monday, April 22, 2024.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For more information about ABC and the Annual International Conference, visit the following sites:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Association for Business Communication:
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.businesscommunication.org/" id="OWA5fb0febe-aa77-51f4-4750-6eb353666a43" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.businesscommunication.org</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ABC 2024 International Conference:
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.businesscommunication.org/p/cm/ld/fid=1707" id="OWAb700b6ae-6d6f-d483-13a6-8d4cf579893b" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.businesscommunication.org/p/cm/ld/fid=1707</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Key dates</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);">Submission of abstract: Wednesday, April 17, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);">Notification of panel acceptance: Monday, April 22, 2024</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);">Conference dates: October 1619, 2024</span></p>
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Matthew J. Baker, PhD, MBA</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Department of Linguistics</span></div>
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Brigham Young University</div>
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