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DOI: 10.1177/0021943606288189 © 2006 Association for Business Communication Commentary: The Scholarship of Kitty O. LockerIowa State University, dkienzle{at}iastate.edu Kitty Locker made an enormous contribution to the discipline of business communication through her textbooks, articles, papers, and vivid personal presence. This article reviews five primary focuses of her contributions: rethinking the formula for negative messages, connecting pedagogical scholarship to research, fostering the disciplinary research community, presenting historical research, and mentoring the people in business communication.
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