Power and Legitimacy in Technical Communication
Historical and Contemporary Struggle for Professional Status
Published on 15. June 2003
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-0-89503-246-1 (ISBN)
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Power and Legitimacy in Technical Communication, Volume I: The Historical and Contemporary Struggle for Professional Status evaluates the historical and contemporary factors that have shaped the professionalization of the discipline of technical communication in the United States. The book focuses on the development of social status for the field, development of a professional consciousness, and ways in which those in the evolving discipline have dealt and continue to deal with issues of legitimacy in both the workplace and academe.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amityville
United States
Weight
498 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89503-246-1 (9780895032461)
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Teresa Kynell-Hunt | Gerald Savage
Power and Legitimacy in Technical Communication
Historical and Contemporary Struggle for Professional Status
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Power and Legitimacy in Technical Communication
Historical and Contemporary Struggle for Professional Status
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Content
Dedication
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Toward Professional Status in Technical Communication Gerald J. Savage
PART I. HISTORICAL ROOTS OF THE STRUGGLE FOR STATUS
CHAPTER 1 Instructions as "Inventions": When the Patent Meets the Prose Katherine T. Durack
CHAPTER 2 Plain Talk from Rudolf Flesch: Making a Science of Writing Bernadette Longo
CHAPTER 3 Status and the Technical Communicator: Utilitarianism, Prestige, and the Role of Academia in Creating our Professional Persona Teresa Kynell-Hunt
PART II. THE CONTEMPORARY STRUGGLE FOR STATUS
CHAPTER 4 A Critical Look at Professional Organizations in Technical Communication Saul Carliner
CHAPTER 5 Inside Out/Outside In: Transcending the Boundaries that Divide the Academy and Industry George F. Hayhoe
CHAPTER 6 Moving from the Periphery: Conceptions of Ethos, Reputation, and Identity for the Technical Communicator Dale L. Sullivan, Michael S. Martin, and Ember R. Anderson
CHAPTER 7 The Process and Prospects for Professionalizing Technical Communication Gerald J. Savage
PART III. ENVISIONING EMPOWERED PRACTICE FOR TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION
CHAPTER 8 The Technical Communicator as Author: Meaning, Power, Authority Jennifer Daryl Slack, David James Miller, and Jeffrey Doak
CHAPTER 9 The Technical Communicator as Author? A Critical Postscript Jennifer Daryl Slack
CHAPTER 10 Universities, Corporate Universities, and the New Professionals: Professionalism and the Knowledge Economy Brenton Faber and Johndan Johnson-Eilola
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Toward Professional Status in Technical Communication Gerald J. Savage
PART I. HISTORICAL ROOTS OF THE STRUGGLE FOR STATUS
CHAPTER 1 Instructions as "Inventions": When the Patent Meets the Prose Katherine T. Durack
CHAPTER 2 Plain Talk from Rudolf Flesch: Making a Science of Writing Bernadette Longo
CHAPTER 3 Status and the Technical Communicator: Utilitarianism, Prestige, and the Role of Academia in Creating our Professional Persona Teresa Kynell-Hunt
PART II. THE CONTEMPORARY STRUGGLE FOR STATUS
CHAPTER 4 A Critical Look at Professional Organizations in Technical Communication Saul Carliner
CHAPTER 5 Inside Out/Outside In: Transcending the Boundaries that Divide the Academy and Industry George F. Hayhoe
CHAPTER 6 Moving from the Periphery: Conceptions of Ethos, Reputation, and Identity for the Technical Communicator Dale L. Sullivan, Michael S. Martin, and Ember R. Anderson
CHAPTER 7 The Process and Prospects for Professionalizing Technical Communication Gerald J. Savage
PART III. ENVISIONING EMPOWERED PRACTICE FOR TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION
CHAPTER 8 The Technical Communicator as Author: Meaning, Power, Authority Jennifer Daryl Slack, David James Miller, and Jeffrey Doak
CHAPTER 9 The Technical Communicator as Author? A Critical Postscript Jennifer Daryl Slack
CHAPTER 10 Universities, Corporate Universities, and the New Professionals: Professionalism and the Knowledge Economy Brenton Faber and Johndan Johnson-Eilola
Contributors
Index