Technical Communication, Deliberative Rhetoric, and Environmental Discourse
Subtitle: Connections and Directions (ATTW Contemporary Studies in Technical Communication)
Contributors: Nancy W. Coppola (Editor); Bill Karis (Editor)
Publisher: Ablex Publishing
Published: February 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781567504804
Subjects: Communication Studies; Discourse analysis; Rhetoric; The Environment; General; Technical Writing; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Communication; Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication; Communication in the environme; Communication in the environmental sciences; Communication of technical inf; Communication of technical information
First sentence: In his 1989 essay on the history of technical writing instruction, James Souther suggests that "the scope of the profession [of technical communication] has been broadened by three mandates requiring effective communication of technical information to the public": 1) environmental legislation; 2) the consumer movement; and 3) the advent of the personal computer (pp. 2-3).