This is the Outstanding Researcher Award Lecture presented at the 1993 Meeting of
the Association for Business Communication in November 1993 in Montréal. Each
year the Association considers nominees for the Outstanding Researcher Award;
Kitty Locker is the third person to receive the award. This is an expanded version of
her remarks.
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