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Critical Power Tools Technical Communication and Cultural Studies

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ISBN-10: 0791467767

ISBN-13: 9780791467763

Edition: 2006

Authors: J. Blake Scott, Bernadette Longo, Katherine V. Wills, Bernadette Longo, Katherine V. Wills

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The first book to focus on the intersection of cultural studies and technical communication,
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 6/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Foreword
Introduction: Why Cultural Studies? Expanding Technical Communication's Critical Toolbox
Theory
The Technical Communicator as Author: Meaning, Power, Authority
Extreme Usability and Technical Communication
The Phantom Machine: The Invisible Ideology of Email (A Cultural Critique)
Research
An Approach for Applying Cultural Study Theory to Technical Writing Research
The Rhetorical Work of Institutions
The Study of Writing in the Social Factory: Methodology and Rhetorical Agency
Living Documents: Liability versus the Need to Archive, or, Why (Sometimes) History Should Be Expunged
Pedagogy
Writing Workplace Cultures-Technically Speaking
Rhetoric as Productive Technology: Cultural Studies in/as Technical Communication Methodology
Extending Service-Learning's Critical Reflection and Action: Contributions of Cultural Studies
Designing Students: Teaching Technical Writing with Cultural Studies Approaches
Afterword
Contributors
Index