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Christopher Toth, RPC PhD Alum, has won the 2010 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Assoc. for Business Communication.

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Christopher Toth, who graduated with a PhD in 2009, has just won the 2010 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for best dissertation in Business Communication from the Association for Business Communication. The organization gives one dissertation award a year to recognize "the top dissertation in the field, based on significance to scholarship, research, and/or pedagogy of business communication." He will receive his award at the national conference at Chicago in October.

Christopher Toth

More information regarding the award can be found at the Association for Business Communication website: http://www.businesscommunication.org/awardsNew/outstandingDissertationNew.html. Rebecca Pope Ruark another RPC PhD alum won the award in 2007.

The ABC Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation on Business Communication encourages excellence in graduate education. The award honors an outstanding doctoral dissertation or thesis in the area of business communication.

Selection Criteria

Contributes significantly to scholarship, research, and/or pedagogy of business communication
Demonstrates originality of thought and careful investigation
Uses an accepted research technique for business communication research
Is successfully defended within the two calendar years preceding the annual convention at which the award is presented. For example, dissertations eligible for the 2011 award are those defended successfully in 2009, 2010, or up to June 15 of 2011.

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Christopher Toth, RPC PhD Alum, has won the 2010 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Assoc. for Business Communication.

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