The Process Religion and Business Communication

Support for the so-called "process movement" in composition theory, which purports tooffer a radically new writing pedagogy, recently has begun to appear in the businesscommunication literature. But before business communication instructors wholeheartedlyembrace the tenets of the movement, they should be aware that the process approach towriting suffers from several methodological defects, appears to be based on a number ofmistakes about the nature of language and mind, and may lead to contentless courses fullof solipsistic students. Examined critically, process ideas seem to have only limited usefulnessin business communication;the process movement itself is more an ideology than an endeavorbased on dispassionate, rational scholarly inquiry.