Critical Power Tools
by Scott, J. Blake; Longo, Bernadette; Wills, Katherine V.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-06-01
Publisher(s): STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
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Summary
The first book to focus on the intersection of cultural studies and technical communication, Critical Power Tools draws on various traditions of cultural studies to develop new or expanded theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical approaches to technical communication. Offered as a sourcebook for the field, the book is organized into three parts. The first section, emphasizing theory building, reconceptualizes key concepts or practices, such as usability, through a cultural studies lens. The second section illustrates alternative research methods through several case studies. The third section offers critical and productive pedagogical approaches, including specific assignments, applicable to both undergraduate and graduate courses. Book jacket.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Introduction: Why Cultural Studies? Expanding Technical Communication's Critical Toolbox | p. 1 |
| Theory | |
| The Technical Communicator as Author: Meaning, Power, Authority | p. 25 |
| Extreme Usability and Technical Communication | p. 47 |
| The Phantom Machine: The Invisible Ideology of Email (A Cultural Critique) | p. 71 |
| Research | |
| An Approach for Applying Cultural Study Theory to Technical Writing Research | p. 111 |
| The Rhetorical Work of Institutions | p. 133 |
| The Study of Writing in the Social Factory: Methodology and Rhetorical Agency | p. 151 |
| Living Documents: Liability versus the Need to Archive, or, Why (Sometimes) History Should Be Expunged | p. 171 |
| Pedagogy | |
| Writing Workplace Cultures-Technically Speaking | p. 199 |
| Rhetoric as Productive Technology: Cultural Studies in/as Technical Communication Methodology | p. 219 |
| Extending Service-Learning's Critical Reflection and Action: Contributions of Cultural Studies | p. 241 |
| Designing Students: Teaching Technical Writing with Cultural Studies Approaches | p. 259 |
| Afterword | p. 271 |
| Contributors | p. 275 |
| Index | p. 279 |
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