1st Edition
The Rhetoric of Risk Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments
By Beverly A. Sauer
Copyright 2003
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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The crash of an Amtrak train near Baltimore, the collapse of the Hyatt hotel in Kansas City, the incident at Three Mile Island, and other large-scale technological disasters have provided powerful examples of the ways that communication practices influence the events and decisions that precipitate a disaster. These examples have raised ethical questions about the responsibility of writers within... Read more
Contents: Editor's Introduction. Introduction: The Rhetoric of Risk. Part I: The Problem of Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments. Regulating Hazardous Environments: The Problem of Documentation. Moments of Transformation: The Cycle of Technical Documentation in Large Regulatory Industries. Acknowledging Uncertainty: Rethinking Rhetoric in a Hazardous Environment. Part II: Moments of Transformation. Reconstructing Experience: The Rhetorical Interface Between Agencies and Experience. Learning From Experience: Enlarging the Agency's Perspective in Training and Instruction. Warrants for Judgment: The Textual Representation of Embodied Sensory Experience. Part III : Documenting Experience. Embodied Experience: Representing Risk in Speech and Gesture. Manual Communication: The Negotiation of Meaning Embodied in Gesture. Part IV: Transforming Experience. Capturing Experience: The Moment of Transformation. Conclusion: The Last Canary?
Biography
Beverly A. Sauer
