1st Edition

Humanistic Aspects of Technical Communication

By Paul. M. Dombrowski Copyright 1994

    This book has two audiences and purposes. The first audience comprises teachers of technical communication and graduate and undergraduate students, commonly from English programs and without technical backgrounds. The purpose for them is to introduce technical communication from the avenue of humanities with which many are familiar and allied. The book serves them as an adjunct to conventional textbooks. The second audience comprises scholars and practicing professionals already familiar with technical communication. The purpose for them is to provide a handy collection, with introduction, of significant essays on recent humanistic developments.

    Preface

    Acknowledgments

    CHAPTER 1 HUMANISM AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION

    CHAPTER 2 RHETORIC OF SCIENCE
     Assent, Dissent, and Rhetoric in Science R. Allen Harris
    Discourse on Method: The Rhetorical Analysis of Scientific Texts Alan G. Gross

    CHAPTER 3 SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
     Challenger and the Social Contingency of Meaning: Two Lessons for the Technical Communication Classroom Paul M. Dombrowski
    Some Perspectives on Rhetoric, Science, and History Carolyn R. Miller


    CHAPTER 4 FEMINIST CRITIQUES OF SCIENCE AND GENDER ISSUES
     Feminist Theory and the Redefinition of Technical Communication Mary M. Lay
    Gender Issues in Technical Communication Studies: An Overview of the Implications for the Profession, Research, and Pedagogy Jo Allen

    CHAPTER 5 ETHICS
     A Basic Unit on Ethics for Technical Communicators Mike Markel
    Political-Ethical Implications of Defining Technical Communication as a Practice Dale L. Sullivan
    Contributors
     Index 

     

    Biography

    P M Dombrowski (Author)