Power and Legitimacy in Technical Communication

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