Professional Communication
The Social Perspective
1st Edition
Published on 9. December 1992
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-0-8039-3934-9 (ISBN)
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I am pleased at the exceptional quality . . . of the articles. . . . Well-crafted, thoroughly researched. . . . Wonderful to assign to graduate students who need an overview of both accepted and cutting-edge thought on the social perspective in professional writing. . . . All of the overview essays were thoroughly intriguing. . . . This collection blends well the theoretical and the practical, points out the ideological nature of rhetoric and writing in professional environments, and presents new research in the field. I believe this is a strong collection for readers (and researchers) new to social constructionism (and collaboration), for example, graduate students or novice teachers. For experts in the field, this collection provides a few outstanding articles. --Technical Communication Quarterly "For anyone interested in the theory and criticism of technical communication, Professional Communication: The Social Perspective is essential reading. Building on articles submitted to the Journal of Business and Technical Communication during their foudning editorship of that instantly successful journal, Nancy Roundy Blyler and Charlotte Thralls have put together a first-rate collection of mediations and studies on the social perspective in technical communication research and theory." --Jimmie Killingsworth, Ph.D.,
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Content
Foreword - Charles Bazerman
PART ONE: HISTORY, THEORY AND RESEARCH
Overviews
The Social Perspective and Professional Communication - Charlotte Thralls and Nancy Roundy Blyler
Diversity and Directions in Research
Rhetoric Unbound - Bruce Herzberg
Discourse, Community and Knowledge
Interpretations
Ideology and the Map - Ben F Barton and Marthalee S Barton
Toward a Postmodern Visual Design Practice
Formalism, Social Construction and the Problem of Interpretive Authority - Thomas Kent
Generic Constraints and Expressive Motives - Joseph J Comprone
Rhetorical Perspectives on Textual Dialogues
You Are What You Cite - Carol Berkenkotter and Thomas N Huckin
Novelty and Intertextuality in a Biologist's Experimental Article
The Role of Law, Policy and Ethics in Corporate Composing - James E Porter
Toward a Practical Ethics for Professional Writing
Conflict in Collaborative Decision-Making - Rebecca E Burnett
Validity and Reliability as Social Constructions - Janice M Lauer and Patricia Sullivan
PART TWO: PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE
Overviews
Collaboration and Conversation in Learning Communities - Jone Rymer
The Discipline and the Classroom
Postmodern Practice - Richard C Freed
Perspectives and Prospects
Interpretations
Gender Studies - Mary M Lay
Implications for the Professional Communication Classroom
The Group Writing Task - Meg Morgan
A Schema for Collaborative Assignment Making
Viewing Functional Pictures in Context - Charles Kostelnick
PART ONE: HISTORY, THEORY AND RESEARCH
Overviews
The Social Perspective and Professional Communication - Charlotte Thralls and Nancy Roundy Blyler
Diversity and Directions in Research
Rhetoric Unbound - Bruce Herzberg
Discourse, Community and Knowledge
Interpretations
Ideology and the Map - Ben F Barton and Marthalee S Barton
Toward a Postmodern Visual Design Practice
Formalism, Social Construction and the Problem of Interpretive Authority - Thomas Kent
Generic Constraints and Expressive Motives - Joseph J Comprone
Rhetorical Perspectives on Textual Dialogues
You Are What You Cite - Carol Berkenkotter and Thomas N Huckin
Novelty and Intertextuality in a Biologist's Experimental Article
The Role of Law, Policy and Ethics in Corporate Composing - James E Porter
Toward a Practical Ethics for Professional Writing
Conflict in Collaborative Decision-Making - Rebecca E Burnett
Validity and Reliability as Social Constructions - Janice M Lauer and Patricia Sullivan
PART TWO: PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE
Overviews
Collaboration and Conversation in Learning Communities - Jone Rymer
The Discipline and the Classroom
Postmodern Practice - Richard C Freed
Perspectives and Prospects
Interpretations
Gender Studies - Mary M Lay
Implications for the Professional Communication Classroom
The Group Writing Task - Meg Morgan
A Schema for Collaborative Assignment Making
Viewing Functional Pictures in Context - Charles Kostelnick