Three Keys to the Past

The History of Technical Communication
Herausgeber: Kynell, Teresa; Moran, Michael G.

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Produktbeschreibung

With an emphasis on key individuals and key movements, this book is the first attempt to provide a collection of critical essays on the history of technical communication designed to help guide future research. This collection consists of the classic; essays in the field that have made a major contribution to the development of the field, and the new; essays that contribute to our historical understanding of a specific element or period of technical communication. This, combined with an up-to-date bibliography of research in the area, make Three Keys to the Past as valuable to the experienced researcher in the field as to those just entering it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9781567503944
• ISBN-10: 1567503942
• Artikelnr.: 21092225

Autorenporträt

TERESA KYNELL is Associate Professor of English at Northern Michigan University. MICHAEL G. MORAN is Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia where he co=directs the freshman English Program. He has edited or co-edited six books. His interests include 18th century British literature, the history of rhetorical theory and practice, and the history of technical communication.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction PART I: KEY INDIVIDUALS IN THE HISTORY OF TECHNICAL
COMMUNICATION Landmark Essay: How Natural Philosophers Can Cooperate: The
Literacy Technology of Coordinated Investigation in Joseph Priestley's
History and Present State of Electricity, Charles Bazerman Landmark Essay:
Francis Bacon and the Historiography of Scientific Rhetoric, James P.
Zappen Oliver Evans and His Antebellum Wrestling with Rhetorical
Arrangement, R. John Brockmann Sada A. Harbarger's Contribution to
Technical Communication in the 1920s, Teresa Kynell PART II: KEY EUROPEAN
MOVEMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION The Emergence of Women
Technical Writers in the 17th Century: Changing Voices Within a Changing
Milieu, Elizabeth Tebeaux Landmark Essay: The Plain Style in Scientific and
Technical Writing, Merrill D. Whitburn Deconstructing Depression: A
Historical Study of the Metaphorical Aspects of an Illness, Henrietta
Nickels Shirk Renaissance Surveying Techniques and the 1590 Hariot-White-de
Bry Map of Virginia, Michael G. Moran PART III: KEY AMERICAN MOVEMENTS IN
THE HISTORY OF TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION Landmark Essay: The Rise of
Technical Writing Instruction in America, Robert J. Connors Interfacing:
Multiple Visions of Computer Use in Technical Communication, Johndan
Johnson-Eilola, Stuart A. Selber and Cynthia L. Selfe Refining a Social
Consciousness: Late 20th Century Influences, Effects, and Ongoing Struggles
in Technical Communication, Jo Allen PART IV: BIBLIOGRAPHY IN THE HISTORY
OF TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION Studies in the History of Business and Technical
Writing: A Bibliographical Essay, William Rivers Author Index Subject
Index.