Marxism, ideology, power and scientific and technical writing

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

Volumn 28, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 133-161

  Ding, Dan ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347572108     PISSN: 00472816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/C4D3-6LB2-19Q3-FV02     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. M. Richardson and S. Liggett, Power Relations, Technical Writing Theory, and Workplace Writing, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 7:1, pp. 112-137, 1993.
2. P. M. Dombrowski, Challenger Through the Eyes of Feyerabend, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 24:1, pp. 7-18, 1994.
3. C. Thralls and N. R. Blyler, The Social Perspective and Pedagogy in Technical Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, 2:3, pp. 249-270, 1993.
4. A. Baker (Graham) and C. David, The Rhetoric of Power: Political Issues in Management Writing, Technical Communication Quarterly, 3:2, pp. 165-178, 1994.
5. G. Savage, Redefining the Responsibilities of Teachers and the Social Position of the Technical Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, 5:3, pp. 309-327, 1996.
6. N. R. Blyler, Research as Ideology in Professional Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, 4:3, pp. 285-313, 1995.
7. P. M. Dombrowski, Post-Modern as the Resurgence of Humanism in Technical Communication Studies, Technical Communication Quarterly, 4:2, pp. 165-185, 1995.
8. J. E. Porter, The Role of Law, Policy, and Ethics in Corporate Company: Toward a Practical Ethics for Professional Writing, in Professional Communication: The Social Perspective, N. R. Blyler and C. Thralls (eds.), Sage, Newbury Park, California, pp. 128-143, 1993.
9. T. Eagleton, Marxism and Literary Criticism, Methuen & Co Ltd., London, 1976.
10. L. Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, Western Printing Services Ltd., Bristol, 1971.
11. Doheny-Farina, Creating a Text/Creating a Company, in Textual Dynamics of the Professions: Historical and Contemporary Studies of Writing in Profession Communities, C. Bazerman and J. Paradis (eds.), The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, pp. 306-335.
12. Plato, The Republic, H. D. P. Lee (trans.), Penguin Books, Baltimore, Maryland, 1964.
13. Aristotle, Natural Science, Aristotle, P. Wheelwright (ed.), Bobbs-Merrill Education Publishing, Indianapolis, pp. 3-63, 1978.
14. R. L. Gates, Classical Rhetoric and the Corporate Content, The Technical Writing Teacher, 17:1, pp. 50-60, 1990.
15. W. A. Wallace, Aitia: Causal Reasoning in Composition and Rhetoric, in Rhetoric and Praxis: The Contribution of Classified Rhetoric to Practical Reasoning, J. D. Moss (ed.), Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., pp. 107-133, 1986.
16. F. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, in Selected Writings of Francis Bacon, H. G. Dick (ed.), The Modern Library, New York, pp. 155-392, 1955.
17. R. F. Jones, Ancients and Moderns: A Study of the Rise of the Scientific Movement in the Seventeenth-Century England, Washington University Studies, St. Louis, 1961.
18. T. Sprat, History of the Royal Society, Washington University Studies, St. Louis, Missouri, 1958.
19. T. H. Huxley, On the Method of Studying Zoology, in The Culture Demanded by Modern Life: A Series of Addresses and Arguments on the Claims of Scientific Education, E. L. Youmans (ed.), D. Appleton and Company, New York, pp. 117-145, 1872.
20. C. Bibby (ed.), T. H. Huxley: Scientist, Humanist and Educator, Horizon Press, New York, 1960.
21. T. S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1962.
22. T. S. Kuhn, The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1977.
23. C. Bazerman, Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Articles in Science, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1988.
24. J. J. Murphy, Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: A History of Rhetorical Theory from Saint Augustine to the Renaissance, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1974.
25. M. Richardson, The Dictamen and Its Influence on Fifteenth Century English Prose, Rhetorica, 2:3, pp. 207-226, 1984.
26. L. Perelman, The Medieval Art of Letter Writing: Rhetoric as Institutional Expression, in Textual Dynamics of the Professions: Historical and Contemporary Studies of Writing in Professional Communities, C. Bazerman and J. Paradis (eds.), The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, pp. 97-119, 1991.
27. J. H. Fisher, M. Richardson, and J. Fisher, in An Anthology of Chancery English, The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1984.
28. M. Richardson, Medieval English Vernacular Correspondence: Notes Toward an Alternative Rhetoric, Allegorica, 10, pp. 95-118, 1989.
29. J. E. Harmer, Anglo-Saxon Writs, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1952.
30. J. Ellicott, A Description of Two Methods, by Which the Irregularity of the Motion of a Clock, Arising from the Influence of Heat and Cold upon the Rod of the Pendulum, May Be Preserved, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 47, pp. 479-494, 1751-1752.
31. C. Bazerman, Modern Evolution of the Experimental Report in Physics: Spectroscopic Articles in Physical Review, 1893-1980, Social Studies of Science, 15, pp. 163-196, 1984.
32. L. Rodman, The Active Voice in Scientific Articles: Frequency and Discourse Functions, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 24:3, pp. 309-331, 1994.
33. J. E. Harmon, An Analysis of Fifty Citation Superstars from the Scientific Literature, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 22:1, pp. 17-37, 1992.
34. D. Atkinson, The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675-1975: A Sociohistorical Discourse Analysis, Language in Society, 25, pp. 333-371, 1996.
35. D. Ding, Rationality Reborn: Historical Roots of the Passive Voice in Scientific Discourse, in Essays in the Study of Scientific Discourse: Methods, Practice, and Pedagogy, J. Battalio (ed.), Ablex Publishing Corporation, Greenwich, Connecticut, pp. 117-134, 1998.
36. A. Easthope, Science, Ideology, Literary Criticism, Critical Quarterly, 21:2, pp. 73-74, 1979.
37. R. Kelso, The Doctrine of the English Gentleman in the Sixteenth Century, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1929.
38. S. Shapin, "A Scholar and a Gentleman": The Problematic Identity of the Scientific Practitioner in Early Modern England, History of Science, 29, pp. 279-327, 1995.
39. P. Dear, Totius in Verba: Rhetoric and Authority in the Early Royal Society, ISIS, 76:282, pp. 145-161, 1985.
40. D. Sless, Reading Semiotics, Information Design Journal, 4:3, pp. 178-199, 1986.
41. P. Fisher and D. Sless, Information Design Methods and Productivity in the Insurance Industry, Information Design Journal, 6:2, pp. 103-129, 1990.
42. D. A. Winsor, The Construction of Knowledge in Organizations: Asking the Right Questions about the Challenger, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 4:2, pp. 7-26, 1990.
43. M. Maier, "Red Flag," "Smart People," "Flawed Decisions": Motion Thiokol and the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, The State University of New York, Binghamton, 1992.
44. R. C. Pace, Technical Communication, Group Differentiation, and the Decision to Launch the Space Shuttle Challenger, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 18:3, pp. 207-220, 1988.
45. D. A. Winsor, Communication Failure Contributing to the Challenger Accident: An Example for Technical Communicators, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, PC-31:3, pp. 101-107, 1988.
46. E. C. Stewart and M. J. Bennett, American Cultural Patterns: A Cross-Cultural Perspectives, Intercultural Press, Inc., Yarmouth, Maine, 1991.
47. N. R. Blyler, Habermas, Empowerment, and Professional Discourse, Technical Communication Quarterly, 3:2, pp. 125-145, 1994.
48. L. Faigley, Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 1992.
49. C. G. Herndl, Teaching Discourse and Reproducing Culture: A Critique of Research and Pedagogy in Professional and Non-Academic Writing, College Composition and Communication, 44:3, pp. 349-363, 1993.
50. J. Trimbur, Consensus and Difference in Collaborative Learning, College English, 51:6, pp. 602-616, 1989.
51. R. Rutter, History, Rhetoric, and Humanism: Toward a More Comprehensive Definition of Technical Communication, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 21:2, pp. 133-153, 1991.