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Power and Legitimacy in Technical Communication, Volume Iand Contemporary Struggle for Professional Status evaluates the historical and contemporary factors that have shaped the professionalization of the discipline of technical communication in the United States. The book focuses on the development of social status for the field, development of a professional consciousness, and ways in which those in the evolving discipline have dealt and continue to deal with issues of legitimacy in both the workplace and academe.
Contents
Dedication Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION Toward Professional Status in Technical Communication Gerald J. Savage PART I. HISTORICAL When the Patent Meets the Prose Katherine T. Durack CHAPTER 2 Plain Talk from Rudolf Flesch: Making a Science of Writing Bernadette Longo CHAPTER 3 Status and the Technical Communicator: Utilitarianism, Prestige, and the Role of Academia in Creating our Professional Persona Teresa Kynell-Hunt PART II. THE CONTEMPORARY STRUGGLE FOR STATUS CHAPTER 4 A Critical Look at Professional Organizations in Technical Communication Saul Carliner CHAPTER 5 Inside Out/Outside In: Transcending the Boundaries that Divide the Academy and Industry George F. Hayhoe CHAPTER 6 Moving from the Periphery: Conceptions of Ethos, Reputation, and Identity for the Technical Communicator Dale L. Sullivan, Michael S. Martin, and Ember R. Anderson CHAPTER 7 The Process and Prospects for Professionalizing Technical Communication Gerald J. Savage PART III. ENVISIONING EMPOWERED PRACTICE FOR TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION CHAPTER 8 The Technical Communicator as Author: Meaning, Power, Authority Jennifer Daryl Slack, David James Miller, and Jeffrey Doak CHAPTER 9 The Technical Communicator as Author? A Critical Postscript Jennifer Daryl Slack CHAPTER 10 Universities, Corporate Universities, and the New Professionals: Professionalism and the Knowledge Economy Brenton Faber and Johndan Johnson-Eilola Contributors Index
