Textual Dynamics of the Professions
Historical and Contemporary Studies of Writing in Professional Communities
Published on 1. April 1991
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-299-12590-5 (ISBN)
Description
How do discursive differences between legal professionals and jurors affect courtroom decisions? How does the DSM-III - the American Psychiatric Association's taxonomy of mental disorders - shape psychiatric practice? How can a narrative of social progress shape scientific theory? How do conflicting problem-solving strategies within a community contribute to technological disasters like Three Mile Island and the Shuttle Challenger? This book is a collection of 15 essays examining the real effects of texts on professional practice - in academic, scientific, and business settings. The authors describe textual dynamics as an interaction in which professional texts and discourses are constructed by, and in turn construct, social practices. This anthology treats a wide range of professional texts including case studies, student papers, medieval letters and product instructions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-299-12590-5 (9780299125905)
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Content
Part 1 Textual construction of the professions: how natural philosophers can co-operate, Charles Bazeman; stories and styles in two molecular biology review articles, Greg Myers; the rhetoric of literary criticism, Jeanne Fahnestock and Marie Secor; medieval art of letter writing, Les Perelman; the role of narrative structure on the transfer of ideas, Ann Harleman Stewart; scientific rhetoric in the 19th and early 20th centuries, James P.Zappen. Part 2 The dynamics of discourse communities: toward a sociocognitire model of literacy, Cheryl Geisler; social context and socially constructed texts, Carol Berkenkotter et al; meaning attribution in ambiguous texts on sociology, Robert A.Schwegler and Linda Shamoon; texts in oral context, Gail Stygall. Part 3 The operational force of texts: text and action, James Paradis; understanding failures in organizational discourse, Carl G.Herndl et al; creating a text - creating a company, Stephen Doheny-Farina; intertextuality in tax accounting, Amy J.Devitt; a psychiatrist using DSM-III, Lucille Parkinson McCarthy.