Power and Legitimacy in Technical Communication - Teresa Kynell-Hunt, Gerald J Savage

Power and Legitimacy in Technical Communication

Strategies for Professional Status
Buch | Hardcover
228 Seiten
2004
Baywood Publishing Company Inc (Verlag)
978-0-89503-247-8 (ISBN)
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Sets out to redefine and reconceive the role of the technical communicator. This volume challenges 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.
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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.6.2004
Reihe/Serie Baywood's Technical Communications
Verlagsort Amityville
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
Technik
ISBN-10 0-89503-247-3 / 0895032473
ISBN-13 978-0-89503-247-8 / 9780895032478
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