| Shaping information: The rhetoric of visual conventions C Kostelnick, M Hassett SIU Press, 2003 | 345 | 2003 |
| Linguistic politeness in professional prose: A discourse analysis of auditors' suggestion letters, with implications for business communication pedagogy J Hagge, C Kostelnick Written communication 6 (3), 312-339, 1989 | 120 | 1989 |
| Supra-textual design: The visual rhetoric of whole documents C Kostelnick Technical communication quarterly 5 (1), 9-33, 1996 | 118 | 1996 |
| Cultural adaptation and information design: Two contrasting views C Kostelnick IEEE transactions on professional communication 38 (4), 182-196, 1995 | 107 | 1995 |
| Process paradigms in design and composition: Affinities and directions C Kostelnick College Composition & Communication 40 (3), 267-281, 1989 | 98 | 1989 |
| The rhetoric of text design in professional communication. C Kostelnick Technical Writing Teacher 17 (3), 189-202, 1990 | 86 | 1990 |
| Visual Rhetoric: A Reader-Oriented Approach to Graphics and Designs. C Kostelnick Technical Writing Teacher 16 (1), 77-88, 1989 | 85 | 1989 |
| The visual rhetoric of data displays: The conundrum of clarity C Kostelnick IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 51 (1), 116-130, 2008 | 82 | 2008 |
| Melting-pot ideology, modernist aesthetics, and the emergence of graphical conventions: The statistical atlases of the United States, 1874–1925 C Kostelnick Defining visual rhetorics, 215-242, 2012 | 64 | 2012 |
| From pen to print: The new visual landscape of professional communication C Kostelnick Journal of business and technical communication 8 (1), 91-117, 1994 | 61 | 1994 |
| A systematic approach to visual language in business communication C Kostelnick The Journal of Business Communication (1973) 25 (3), 29-48, 1988 | 61 | 1988 |
| The visual rhetoric of data displays: The conundrum of clarity C Kostelnick IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 50 (4), 280-294, 2007 | 57 | 2007 |
| The re-emergence of emotional appeals in interactive data visualization C Kostelnick Technical Communication 63 (2), 116-135, 2016 | 53 | 2016 |
| Conflicting standards for designing data displays: Following, flouting, and reconciling them C Kostelnick Technical communication 45 (4), 473, 1998 | 44 | 1998 |
| Typographical design, modernist aesthetics, and professional communication C Kostelnick Journal of Business and Technical Communication 4 (1), 5-24, 1990 | 33 | 1990 |
| Viewing functional pictures in context C Kostelnick Professional communication: The social perspective, 243-256, 1993 | 24 | 1993 |
| Humanizing visual design: The rhetoric of human forms in practical communication C Kostelnick Routledge, 2019 | 18 | 2019 |
| Visible numbers: Essays on the history of statistical graphics MA Kimball, C Kostelnick Routledge, 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
| Seeing difference: Teaching intercultural communication through visual rhetoric C Kostelnick, B Thatcher, KS Amant Teaching intercultural rhetoric and technical communication: Theories …, 2011 | 17 | 2011 |
| The art of visual design: The rhetoric of aesthetics in technical communication C Kostelnick Technical Communication 67 (4), 6-27, 2020 | 13 | 2020 |
