Busting the Myth of the Communication Metaphor: How Technical Writing Conventions Perpetuate Injustice - Hardcover
by Sarah Read
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sarah ReadSeries:Suny Series, Studies in Technical CommunicationPublish date:7/1/2025Pages:250
Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9798855802894UPC:9798855802894Book Category:Technology & Engineering, Computers, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Technical Writing, Documentation & Technical Writing, WritingBook Topic:Business AspectsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.1199Product ID:SC38B0CMQW
Traces the linguistic, rhetorical, historical, cultural, and economic origins of our most basic beliefs and practices for successful technical writing to initiate a reckoning about who they serve and who they harm.
Busting the Myth of the Communication Metaphor is a transdisciplinary approach to making visible and explaining the multiple origins of why our most basic beliefs about what makes...
Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9798855802894UPC:9798855802894Book Category:Technology & Engineering, Computers, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Technical Writing, Documentation & Technical Writing, WritingBook Topic:Business AspectsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.1199Product ID:SC38B0CMQW
Sarah Read is Associate Professor of English and Director of Professional and Technical Writing at Portland State University.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
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