Power and Legitimacy in Technical Communication
Strategies for Professional Status
Published on 15. June 2004
Book
Hardback
228 pages
978-0-89503-247-8 (ISBN)
Description
In ""Strategies for Professional Status, Volume II of Power and Legitimacy in Technical Communication"", the contributors-well-known academics and practitioners in technical communications - set out to redefine and reconceive the role of the technical communicator. The chapters in this volume challenge some of our contemporary notions about what it means to be a technical communicator, so that practitioners might gain the power and status necessary to make decisions and to function in a socially and ethically responsible manner.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amityville
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
430 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89503-247-8 (9780895032478)
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Strategies for Professional Status
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Content
Dedication
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION Creating Strategies for Status in Technical Communication Gerald J. Savage
PART I. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES FOR PRESENT AND FUTURE STRATEGIES
CHAPTER 1 Technical Communication from 1850-1950: Where Have We Been? Teresa Kynell-Hunt
CHAPTER 2 Returning to Our Roots: Gaining Power through the Culture of Engagement Elizabeth Tebeaux
CHAPTER 3 Points of Reference Contributing to the Professionalization of Technical Communication Elizabeth Overman Smith
PART II. STRATEGIES FOR CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE
CHAPTER 4 Shaping the Future of Our Profession Marjorie T. Davis
CHAPTER 5 Reconfiguring the Professor-Practitioner Relationship Louise Rehling
CHAPTER 6 (Deeply) Sustainable Programs, Sustainable Cultures, Sustainable Selves: Essaying Growth in Technical Communication Robert R. Johnson
PART III. STRATEGIES FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES
CHAPTER 7 Toward a Definition of Best Practices in Policy Discourse Carolyn D. Rude
CHAPTER 8 Critical Interpretive Research in Technical Communication: Issues of Power and Legitimacy Nancy Roundy Blyler
CHAPTER 9 Tricksters, Fools, and Sophists: Technical Communication as Postmodern Rhetoric Gerald J. Savage
CHAPTER 10 Technical Communication in the 21st Century: Where Are We Going? M. Jimmie Killingsworth
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION Creating Strategies for Status in Technical Communication Gerald J. Savage
PART I. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES FOR PRESENT AND FUTURE STRATEGIES
CHAPTER 1 Technical Communication from 1850-1950: Where Have We Been? Teresa Kynell-Hunt
CHAPTER 2 Returning to Our Roots: Gaining Power through the Culture of Engagement Elizabeth Tebeaux
CHAPTER 3 Points of Reference Contributing to the Professionalization of Technical Communication Elizabeth Overman Smith
PART II. STRATEGIES FOR CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE
CHAPTER 4 Shaping the Future of Our Profession Marjorie T. Davis
CHAPTER 5 Reconfiguring the Professor-Practitioner Relationship Louise Rehling
CHAPTER 6 (Deeply) Sustainable Programs, Sustainable Cultures, Sustainable Selves: Essaying Growth in Technical Communication Robert R. Johnson
PART III. STRATEGIES FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES
CHAPTER 7 Toward a Definition of Best Practices in Policy Discourse Carolyn D. Rude
CHAPTER 8 Critical Interpretive Research in Technical Communication: Issues of Power and Legitimacy Nancy Roundy Blyler
CHAPTER 9 Tricksters, Fools, and Sophists: Technical Communication as Postmodern Rhetoric Gerald J. Savage
CHAPTER 10 Technical Communication in the 21st Century: Where Are We Going? M. Jimmie Killingsworth
Contributors
Index