Writing, authenticity, and knowledge creation: why I write and you should too

I have not at any time thought of myself as a researcher. The words "Outstanding Researcher Award" upon the plaques the Association for Business Communication (ABC) and McGraw-Hill/Irwin awarded me this past year don't describe who I am and what I believe I do. Those words, in fact, cause me uncomfortableness, smooth embarrassment. I deliberately avoid describing myself as a researcher, suffer alone a "social scientist."

It has taken me well above a decade of my academic life to figure on the outside what I do, aside from teach. Simply lay I write, or write articles. More precisely, I endeavor to find ...