Power and Legitimacy in Technical Communication: Strategies for Professional Status (Baywood's Technical Communications) - Hardcover

Kynell-Hunt, Teresa; Savage, Gerald J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0895032473 ISBN 13: 9780895032478

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

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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ABOUT THE EDITORS

Teresa Kynell-Hunt is a professor of English at Northern Michigan University and has a Ph.D. in rhetoric and technical communication from Michigan Technological University. She is currently chair of the NCTE Committee on Technical and Scientific Communication and serves on the Executive Committee of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. She is the author of a variety of articles in the field and the book, Writing in a Milieu of Utility: The Move to Technical Communication in American Engineering Programs, 1850-1950. With Michael Moran (University of Georgia) she co-edited the collection, Three Keys to the Past: The History of Technical Communication. With Wendy Stone she wrote the text Scenarios for Technical Communication: Critical Thinking and Writing.

Gerald J. Savage has a Ph.D. in rhetoric and technical communication from Michigan Technological University and is an associate professor in the English Department at Illinois State University, where he teaches technical communication and technical editing. He is co-editor with Dale L. Sullivan of Writing a Professional Life: Stories of Technical Communicators On and Off the Job. He has published articles on technical communication in Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, and Journal of Business and Technical Communication.

Review:

The book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in technical and business communication. -- Jane Erskine, Editor, Book News Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0895032473
• ISBN 13: 9780895032478
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228