Rhetorical dilemmas in funded science annual reporting

@inproceedings{Parks2017RhetoricalDI,
  title={Rhetorical dilemmas in funded science annual reporting},
  author={Sara Beth Parks},
  year={2017},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:158541220}
}
Scientists experience angst when faced with the task of writing the annual reports often required by their employers or funders. Although similar annual reports are widely studied in business contexts, communication and science studies disciplines have not considered annual reporting in science contexts. This is an oversight because annual reporting is one of the main ways that scientists communicate the progress of their research to stakeholders, including publics and policy-makers. Therefore… 
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