Power and Legitimacy in Technical Communication

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