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Author:   Johnson-Eilola ,  Selber
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 19.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.917kg
ISBN:  

9780195157055

ISBN 10:   0195157052
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   26 February 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

PART 1: HISTORIES 1: Robert Connors, The Rise of Technical Writing Instruction in America 2: Russell Rutter, History, Rhetoric, and Humanism: Toward a More Comprehensive Definition of Technical Communication 3: Katherine T. Durack, Gender, Technology, and the History of Technical Communication PART 2: RHETORICAL PERSPECTIVES 4: Carolyn R. Miller, A Humanistic Rationale for Technical Writing 5: Linda Driskill, Understanding the Writing Context in Organizations 6: Carolyn D. Rude, The Report for Decision Making: Genre and Inquiry 7: Robert R. Johnson, Audience Involved: Toward a Participatory Model of Writing PART 3: PHILOSOPHIES AND THEORIES 8: David N. Dobrin, What's Technical about Technical Writing? 9: Charlotte Thralls and Nancy Roundy Blyler, The Social Perspective and Professional Communication: Diversity and Directions in Research 10: Mary M. Lay, Feminist Theory and the Redefinition of Technical Communication 11: Jennifer Daryl Slack, David James Miller, and Jeffrey Doak, The Technical Communicator as Author: Meaning, Power, Authority 12: Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Relocating the Value of Work: Technical Communication in a Post-Industrial Age PART 4: ETHICAL AND POWER ISSUES 13: Steven B. Katz, The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust 14: Dale L. Sullivan, Political-Ethical Implications of Defining Technical Communication as a Practice 15: Carl G. Herndl, Teaching Discourse and Reproducing Culture: A Critique of Research and Pedagogy in Professional and Non-Academic Writing 16: Ben F. Barton and Marthalee S. Barton, Ideology and the Map: Toward a Postmodern Visual Design Practice PART 5: RESEARCH METHODS 17: Teresa M. Harrison, Frameworks for the Study of Writing in Organizational Contexts 18: Nancy Roundy Blyler, Taking a Political Turn: The Critical Perspective and Research in Professional Communication 19: Davida Charney, Empiricism Is Not a Four-Letter Word 20: Patricia Sullivan and James E. Porter, On Theory, Practice, and Method: Toward a Heuristic Research Methodology for Professional Writing PART 6: WORKPLACE STUDIES 21: Jack Selzer, The Composing Processes of an Engineer 22: Stephen Doheny-Farina, Writing in an Emerging Organization: An Ethnographic Study 23: Dorothy A. Winsor, Engineering Writing/Writing Engineering 24: Nancy Allen, Dianne Atkinson, Meg Morgan, Teresa Moore, and Craig Snow, What Experienced Collaborators Say about Collaborative Writing 25: James Paradis, Text and Action: The Operator's Manual in Context and in Court 26: Barbara Mirel, Writing and Database Technology: Extending the Definition of Writing in the Workplace PART 7: ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS 27: Tharon W. Howard, Who 'Owns' Electronic Texts? 28: Stephen A. Bernhardt, The Shape of Text to Come: The Texture of Print on Screens 29: Cynthia L. Selfe and Richard J. Selfe, Jr., The Politics of the Interface: Power and Its Exercise in Electronic Contact Zones PART 8: PEDAGOGICAL DIRECTIONS 30: Stuart A. Selber, Beyond Skill Building: Challenges Facing Technical Communication Teachers in the Computer Age 31: Deborah S. Bosley, Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? 32: Lee E. Brasseur, Contesting the Objectivist Paradigm: Gender Issues in the Technical and Professional Communication Curriculum Bibliographic Resources in Technical Communication

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Johnson-Eilola and Selber do a superb job at canvassing both historic and current foundational works in a wide variety of specialty areas that, over time and collectively, have defined and shaped our field. Their coherent, single-volume collection of the most influential articles in the field is destined to become an invaluable resource for advanced technical communication students, newcomers to the field, veterans in the field, and practitioners. --Rachel Spilka, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee<br> Central Works in Technical Communication is exactly the right name for this collection. Johnson-Eilola and Selber have gathered a broad, even-handed sampling of some of the best works in our field: those dog-eared articles that are scattered throughout our journals and books and filing cabinets, the ones we pull out when we want to touch base with our field--and introduce it to others. --Clay Spinuzzi, University of Texas at Austin<br> I could see actually restructuring my course to reflect the topics used to organize this book. --Jimmie Killingsworth, Texas A&M University<br>

<br> Johnson-Eilola and Selber do a superb job at canvassing both historic and current foundational works in a wide variety of specialty areas that, over time and collectively, have defined and shaped our field. Their coherent, single-volume collection of the most influential articles in the field is destined to become an invaluable resource for advanced technical communication students, newcomers to the field, veterans in the field, and practitioners. --Rachel Spilka, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee<p><br> Central Works in Technical Communication is exactly the right name for this collection. Johnson-Eilola and Selber have gathered a broad, even-handed sampling of some of the best works in our field: those dog-eared articles that are scattered throughout our journals and books and filing cabinets, the ones we pull out when we want to touch base with our field--and introduce it to others. --Clay Spinuzzi, University of Texas at Austin<p><br> I could see actually restructuring my c

Johnson-Eilola and Selber do a superb job at canvassing both historic and current foundational works in a wide variety of specialty areas that, over time and collectively, have defined and shaped our field. Their coherent, single-volume collection of the most influential articles in the field is destined to become an invaluable resource for advanced technical communication students, newcomers to the field, veterans in the field, and practitioners. --Rachel Spilka, <em>University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee</em> <em>Central Works in Technical Communication</em> is exactly the right name for this collection. Johnson-Eilola and Selber have gathered a broad, even-handed sampling of some of the best works in our field: those dog-eared articles that are scattered throughout our journals and books and filing cabinets, the ones we pull out when we want to touch base with our field--and introduce it to others. --Clay Spinuzzi, <em>University of Texas at Austin</em> I could see actually restructuring my course to reflect the topics used to organize this book. --Jimmie Killingsworth, <em>Texas A&M University</em>

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