Spurious Coin: A History of Science, Management, and Technical WritingSUNY Press, 2000. máj. 4. - 204 oldal Spurious Coin constructs a cultural history of technical writing in the United States and the system of scientific knowledge and power it controls. Embedded in this history are tensions between scientific and liberal arts knowledge-making that render technical writing both the genuine and counterfeit coin of scientific knowledge within our culture. When scientific knowledge is made by scientists and engineers, it can circulate as genuine currency in an economy where communication makes knowledge. When scientific knowledge is made by liberal-arts trained technical writers, however, it circulates as spurious currency and threatens the purity of the knowledge economy. Because the stability of the scientific knowledge economy is at stake, scientists and technical writers often find themselves at odds over the value of scientific knowledge minted by non-scientists. Longo constructs this cultural history around a framework of five intellectual trends: the use of clear, correct English; maximum efficiency of production and operation; the need to contribute to a general fund of scientific knowledge for the betterment of the human condition; the tension between the role of science and art within a culture; and a redemptive urge to purify language and standardize practice. She also explores the role of mechanical engineers in designing management systems which rely on technical writing to control operations and profits. |
Tartalomjegyzék
How Credit for Scientific Knowledge Is Appraised | 1 |
WHO GETS CREDIT? | 2 |
WHAT RESEARCH DOES NOT SEE | 3 |
LOOKING AT TECHNICAL WRITING THROUGH A CULTURAL STUDY FRAME | 6 |
PUTTING TECHNICAL WRITING PRACTICES IN CULTURAL CONTEXTS | 12 |
ISSUES IN TECHNICAL WRITING RAISED THROUGH CULTURAL STUDY | 19 |
Technical Writing as the Lingua Franca in a Golden Age of Engineering | 21 |
WHAT KIND OF KNOWLEDGE GETS DEPOSITED IN TEXTBOOKS? | 23 |
DESIGNING SYSTEMATIC ADMINISTRATION FOR CANALS AND RAILROADS | 85 |
ENGINEERS BECOME MANAGERS IN COMPLEX SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS | 88 |
ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS | 94 |
Technical Writing as Management System Control | 100 |
NATURAL AND MILITARY EFFICIENCY | 104 |
NEW COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES SUPPORT SYSTEMATIZED MANAGEMENT | 109 |
TECHNICAL WRITING TEXTBOOK CODIFIES SYSTEMATIZED MANAGEMENT | 114 |
Technical Writers Mint Counterfeit Scientific Knowledge Strained Relations between Technical Writers and Engineers | 122 |
THE UTILITY OF EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE | 30 |
THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC SCIENCE | 34 |
REFORMING SCHOLASTICISM | 40 |
The Rise of Experiential Knowledge and Technical Education | 44 |
JOHN LOCKE LANGUAGE PROPERTY RIGHTS AND COINAGE | 48 |
DEFENDING SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION | 55 |
Contributing to a General Fund of Scientific Knowledge | 62 |
KNOWLEDGE IN TEXTBOOKS | 70 |
TECHNICAL WRITING PRACTICES IN POWER AND KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS | 76 |
Engineering Specialized Social Organizations | 78 |
ENGINEERING AS AN APPLICATION OF PURE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE | 83 |
OFFICE MANAGEMENT BECOMES A SPECIALIZED FIELD | 126 |
THE PRACTICALITY OF ENGINEERING IN TENSION WITH THE ENJOYMENT OF LITERATURE | 135 |
TECHNICAL WRITING MOVES FROM ENGINEERING TO ENGLISH | 144 |
ENGLISH EMBRACES SCIENCE | 153 |
Whose Knowledge Is Powerful? | 162 |
TOWARD A HUMANISTIC TECHNICAL WRITING | 164 |
Notes | 169 |
References | 179 |
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