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.…mehr
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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