Overview
The first sourcebook for rethinking technical communication theory, practice, pedagogy, and research through a cultural studies lens.
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Author: J. Blake Scott , Katherine V. Wills , Bernadette Longo
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9780791467756
ISBN 10: 0791467759
Pages: 306
Publication Date: 13 July 2006
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Foreword Alan Nadel Introduction: Why Cultural Studies? Expanding Technical Communication's Critical Toolbox J. Blake Scott, Bernadette Longo, and Katherine Wills THEORY 1. The Technical Communicator as Author: Meaning, Power, Authority Jennifer Daryl Slack, David James Miller, and Jeffrey Doak 2. Extreme Usability and Technical Communication Bradley Dilger 3. The Phantom Machine: The Invisible Ideology of Email (A Cultural Critique) Myra G. Moses and Steven B. Katz RESEARCH 4. An Approach for Applying Cultural Studies Theory to Technical Writing Research Bernadette Longo 5. The Rhetorical Work of Institutions Elizabeth C. Britt 6. The Study of Writing in the Social Factory: Methodology and Rhetorical Agency Jeffrey T. Grabill 7. Living Documents: Liability versus the Need to Archive, or, Why (Sometimes) History Should Be Expunged Beverly Sauer PEDAGOGY 8. Writing Workplace Cultures-Technically Speaking Jim Henry 9. Rhetoric as Productive Technology: Cultural Studies in/as Technical Communication Methodology Michael J. Salvo 10. Extending Service-Learning's Critical Reflection and Action: Contributions of Cultural Studies J. Blake Scott 11. Designing Students: Teaching Technical Writing with Cultural Studies Approaches Katherine V. Wills Afterword Diana George About the Contributors
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This book is unique in that no other text addresses the issue of cultural studies in technical communication. The contributors provide thoughtful, smart essays that initiate a useful discussion for the field. -- Stuart C. Brown, coeditor of The Writing Program Administrator's Resource: A Guide to Reflective Ins
"""This book is unique in that no other text addresses the issue of cultural studies in technical communication. The contributors provide thoughtful, smart essays that initiate a useful discussion for the field."" -- Stuart C. Brown, coeditor of The Writing Program Administrator's Resource: A Guide to Reflective Ins"
Author Information
J. Blake Scott is Associate Professor of English at the University of Central Florida, the author of Risky Rhetoric: AIDS and the Cultural Practices of HIV Testing, and coauthor (with Melody Bowdon) of Service Learning in Technical and Professional Communication. Bernadette Longo is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota and the author of Spurious Coin: A History of Science, Management, and Technical Writing, also published by SUNY Press. Katherine V. Wills is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University at Columbus and coeditor (with Marc Bousquet) of the eBook The Politics of Information: Electronic Mediation of Social Change.
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