Shearer, Allan W. "Applying Burke's Dramatic Pentad to Scenarios." Futures. Vol. 36 No. 8 (Oct 2004).

Summary: Constructing future scenarios as part of the decision making process is a common practice in professional and technical situations. Because we already think in narrative terms, looking at scenario construction as storytelling means tapping a resource we already understand and know how to use. But many people, particularly those in the technical fields, are far better at taking in stories than creating them, so Shearer suggests using Burke's pentad as a model for understanding past situations and creating future scenarios. The pentad defines a situation by analyzing five aspects—act, agent, agency, scene and purpose—and analyzes it by comparing these aspects in different ratios.

Evaluation: Like Baake's article, this one explains how thinking and writing narratively can be useful in professional and technical situations. And the addition of the pentad provides a simple, concrete way of applying such thinking. But Burke's pentad is really meant to analyze situations that are already defined—that have already happened or that have been fictionally created—so I'm not sure how effective it would be as a tool for creating future scenarios.