Research as social practice a case study of research on technical and professional communication

Written Communication

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 258-296

  Herndl, Carl G ^a   Nahrwold, Cynthia A ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342509119     PISSN: 07410883     EISSN: 15528472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741088300017002004     Document Type: Article

References (92)

1. Altheide, D., & Johnson, J. (1994). Criteria for assessing interpretive validity in qualitative research. In Y. S. Lincoln & N. K. Denzin (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp.485-499). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2. Alverson, M., & Willmott, H. (1992). Critical theory and management studies. In M. Alverson & H. Willmott (Eds.), Critical management studies (pp.1-20). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
3. American Psychiatrie Association. (1980). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (3rd ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
4. Anderson, P. V., Brockmann, R J., & Miller, C. R. (Eds.). (1983). New essays in technical and scientific communication: Research, theory, practice. Farmingdale, NY: Baywood.
5. Bauman, Z. (1992). Intimations ofpostmodernity. New York: Routledge.
6. Bauman, Z. (1993). Postmodern ethics. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell.
7. Bazerman, C., & Paradis, J. (Eds.). (1991). Textual dynamics of the professions: Historical andcontemporary studies of imtinginprofessionalcommunities. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
8. Behar, R, & Gordon, D. (1995). Women writing culture. Berkeley: University of California Press.
9. Berlin, J. (1988). Rhetoric and ideology in the writing class. College English, 50, 47-494.
10. Bennstein, R J. (1971). Praxis and action: Contemporary philosophies of human activity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
11. Blakeslee, A. M., Cole, C. M., & Conefrey, T. (1996). Evaluating qualitative inquiry in technical and scientific communication: Toward a practical and dialogic validity. Technical Communication Quarterly, 5, 12-149.
12. BIyler, N. R (1995). Research as ideology in professional communication. Technical Communication Quarterly, 4, 28-313.
13. BIyler, N. R, Graham, M. B., & Thralls, C. (1997). Scholarship, tenure, and promotion in professional communication. In R C. Gebhardt & B.G.S. Gebhardt (Eds.), Academic advancement in composition studies: Scholarship, publication, promotion, tenure (pp.71-86). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
14. Bourdieu, P. (1977). Outline of a theory of practice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
15. Bourdieu, P. (1984). Homoacademicus (P. Collier, Trans.). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
16. Bowers, C. A., & Flinders, D. J. (1990). Responsive teaching: An ecological approach to classroom patterns of language, culture, and thought. New York: Teachers College Press.
17. Butler, J. (1990). Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge.
18. Carroll, J. M. (1984, November 1). Minimalist training. Datamation, pp. 125-136.
19. Cintron, R (1993). Wearing a pith helmet at a sly angle: Or, can writing researchers do ethnography in a postmodern era? Written Communication, 10, 37-412.
20. Clifford, J., & Marcus, G. E. (Eds.). (1986). Writing culture: The poetics and politics of ethnography. Berkeley: University of California Press.
21. Connors, R (1982). The rise of technical writing instruction in America. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 12, 32-351.
22. Dautermann, J. (1997). Writing at Good Hope: A study of negotiated composition in a community of nurses. Greenwich, CT: Ablex.
23. de Beauvoir, S. (1973). The second sex (E. M. Parshley, Trans.). New York Vintage.
24. Denzin, N. (1997). Performance texts. In W. G. Tiemey & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Representation and the text: Re-framing the narrative voice (pp.179-218). Albany: State University of New York Press.
25. Doheny-Farina, S. (1993). Research as rhetoric Confronting the methodological and ethical problems of research on writing in nonacademic settings. In R Spilka (Ed.), Writing in the workplace: New research perspectives (pp.253-267). Carbondale: Southem Illinois University Press.
26. Dorazio, P., & Stovall, J. (1997). Research in context: Ethnographic usability. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 17, 57-67.
27. Duin, A. H., & Hanson, C. J. (Eds.). (1996). Nonacademic writing: Social theory and technology. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
28. Ebert, T. (1991). Political semiosis in/or American cultural studies. American Journal of Semiotics, 8, 11-135.
29. Feenberg, A. (1991). Critical theory of technology. New York: Oxford University Press.
30. Fonow, M. M., & Cook, J. (1991). Beyond methodology: Feminist scholarship as lived research. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
31. Foucault, M. (1972). The archaeology of knowledge (A. M. Sheridan Smith, Trans.). New York: Pantheon.
32. Giddens, A. (1984). The constitution of society: Outline of a theory of structuration. Berkeley: University of California Press.
33. Goffman, E. (1971). Relations in public: Microstudies of the public order. New York: Basic Books.
34. Gordon, D. A. (1995). Border work: Feminist ethnography and the dissemination of literacy. In R. Behar & D. A. Gordon (Eds.), Women writing culture (pp.373-389). Berkeley: University of California Press.
35. Cuba, E. G., & Lincoln, Y. S. (1989). Fourth generation evaluation. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
36. Cuba, E. G., & Lincoln, Y. S. (1994). Competing paradigms in qualitative research. In N. K. Denzen & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp.105-117). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
37. Harding, S. (1986). The science question in feminism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
38. Hartstock, N. (1987). Rethinking modernism: Minority vs. majority theories. Cultural Critique, 7, 18-206.
39. Harvey, D. (1990). The condition ofpostmodernity. Cambridge, UK: Basil Blackwell.
40. Heidegger, M. (1977). The question concerning technology. In D. F. Krell (Ed.), Martin Heidegger: Basic writings (pp.284-317). New York: Harper & Row.
41. Henry, J. (in press). Writing workplace cultures: A preliminary archaeology of professional writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
42. Herndl, C. G. (1991). Writing ethnography: Representation, rhetoric, and institutional practices. College English, 53, 32-332.
43. Herndl, C. G. (1993). Teaching discourse and reproducing culture: A critique of research and pedagogy in professional and nonacademic writing. College Composition and Communication, 44, 34-363.
44. Herndl, C. G. (1996). Tactics and the quotidian: Resistance and professional discourse. A Journal of Composition Theory, 16, 45-470.
45. Jones, S. B. (1996). Specialized language as a barrier to automated information technologies. In P. Sullivan & J. Dautermann (Eds.), Electronic literacies in the workplace: Technologies of writing (pp.23-40). Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.
46. Keller, E. F. (1985). Reflections on gender and science. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
47. Kent, T. (1995). Speaking the idiom: Joining the conversation in professional communication research. In E. Tebeaux (Ed.), Issues in promotion and tenure for faculty in technical communication: Guidelines and perspectives (pp.33-42). N.p.: Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. (Also available in PDG via Adobe Acrobat Reader at http://english.ttu.edu/attw/books.html)
48. Kirsch, G. (1992). Methodological pluralism. In G. Kirsch & P. Sullivan (Eds.), Methods and methodology in composition researcli (pp.247-269). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
49. Kühn, T. (1970). The structure of scientific revolutions (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
50. Laclau, E., & Mouffe, C. (1985). Hegemony and socialist strategy: Towards a radical democratic politics. London: Verso.
51. Lather, P. (1991). Gelling smart: Feminist research and pedagogy with/in the postmodern. New York: Routledge.
52. Latour, B., & Woolgar, S. (1979). Laboratory life: The social construction of scientific facts. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
53. Loehr, L. (1995). Composing in groups: The concept of authority in cross functional project team work. IEEE Transactions in Professional Communication, 38, 83-94.
54. Lyotard, J. (1984). The postmodern condition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
55. Marcuse, H. (1964). One-dimensional man. Boston: Beacon.
56. Matalene, C. B. (Ed.). (1989). Worlds of writing: Teaching and learning in discourse communities of work. New York: Random House.
57. McCarthy, L. P. (1991). A psychiatrist using DSM-Ilh The influence of a charter document in psychiatry. In C. Bazerman & J. Paradis (Eds.), Textual dynamics of the profession (pp.358-378). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
58. McCarthy, L. P., & Gerring, J. P. (1994). Revising psychiatry's charter document: DSM-/V. Written Communication, 11, 14-192.
59. Miller, C. R. (1989). What's practical about technical writing? In B. E. Fearing & W. K. Sparrow (Eds.), Technical writing: Theory and practice (pp.14-24). New York: Modern Language Association.
60. Miller, T. P. (1991). Treating professional writing as social praxis. Journal of Advanced Composition, 11, 57-72.
61. Odell, L., & Goswami, D. (Eds.). (1985). Writing in nonacademic settings. New York: Guilford.
62. Olsen, L. A. (1993). Research on discourse communities: An overview. In R Spilka (Ed.), Writing in the workplace: New research perspectives (pp.181-194). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
63. Pare, A. (1993). Discourse regulations and the production of knowledge. In R. Spilka (Ed.), Writing in the workplace: New research perspectives (pp.111-123). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
64. Sauer, B. A. (1993). Sense and sensibility in technical documentation: How feminist interpretation strategies can save lives in the nation's mines. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 7, 63-83.
65. Sauer, B. A. (1998). Embodied knowledge: The textual representation of embodied sensory information in a dynamic and uncertain material environment. Written Communication, 15, 13-169.
66. Saussure, F. de (1966). In C. Bally & A. Sechehaye (Eds.), Course in general linguistics (W. Baskin, Trans.). New York: McGraw-Hill. (Original work published in 1915)
67. Schratz, M., & Walker, R. (1995). Research as social change: New opportunities for qualitative research. New York: Routledge.
68. Schwandt, T. (1994). Constructivist, interpretivist approaches to human inquiry. In N. K. Denzen & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp.118-137). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
69. Schwandt, T. (1997). Textual gymnastics, ethics, and angst. In W. Tierney & Y. Lincoln (Eds.), Representation and the text: Re-framing the narrative voice (pp.305-312). Albany: State University of New York Press.
70. Segal, J., Paré, A., Brent, D., & Vipond, D. (1998). The researcher as missionary: Problems with rhetoric and reform in the disciplines. College Composition and Communication, 50, 71-90.
71. Seife, C., & Seife, R. (1996). Writing as democratic social action in a technological world: Politicizing and inhabiting virtual landscapes. In A. H. Duin & C. J. Hansen (Eds.), Nonacademic writing: Social theory and technology (pp.325-358). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
72. Smith, J. K. (1989). The nature of social and educational inquiry: Empiricism versus interpretation. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
73. Smith, P. (1988). Discerning the subject. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
74. Spanos, W. (1987). Repetitions: The postmodern occasion in literature and culture. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press.
75. Spilka, R. (1993a). Influencing workplace practice: A challenge for professional writing specialists in academia. In R. Spilka (Ed.), Writing in the workplace: New research perspectives (pp.207-219). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
76. Spilka, R. (Ed.). (1993b). Writing in the workplace: New research perspectives. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
77. Sullivan, D. L. (1990). Political-ethical implications of defining technical communication as a practice. Journal of Advanced Composition, 10, 37-386.
78. Sullivan, R J. (1997). Dysfunctional workers, functional texts: The transformation of work in institutional procedure manuals. Written Communication, 14, 31-359.
79. Sullivan, P. (1992). Feminism and methodology in composition studies. In G. Kirsch & P. Sullivan (Eds.), Methods and methodology in composition research (pp.37-61). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
80. Sullivan, P., & Porter, J. (1997). Opening spaces: Writing technologies and critical research practices. Greenwich, CT: Ablex.
81. Sullivan, P., & Spilka, R. (1992). Qualitative research in technical communication: Issues of value, identity and use. Technical Communication, 39, 59-606.
82. Tanaka, G. (1997). Pico college. In W. G. Tierney & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Representation and the text: Re-framing the narrative voice. Albany: State University of New York Press.
83. Tebeaux, E. (1995). Foreward. In E. Tebeaux (Ed.), Issues in promotion and tenure for faculty in technical communication: Guidelines andperspectives (pp.1-6). N.p.: Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. (Also available in PDG via Adobe Acrobat Reader atttp://english.ttu.edu/attw/books.html)
84. Tyler, S. (1987). The unspeakable: Discourse, dialogue, and rhetoric in the postmodern world. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
85. Van Maanen, J. (1988). Tales of the field: On writing ethnography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
86. Vitanza, V. (1991). Three countertheses: Or, a critical in(ter)vention into composition theories and pedagogies. In P. Harkin & J. Schilb (Eds.), Contending with words: Composition and rlietoric in a postmodern age (pp.139-172). New York: Modern Language Association.
87. Waddell, C. (1996). Saving the Great Lakes: Public participation in environmental policy. In C. G. Herndl &S. C. Brown (Eds.), Green culture: Environmental rhetoric in contemporary America (pp.141-165). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
88. Wells, S. (1996). What do we want from public writing? College Composition and Communication, 47, 32-341.
89. Williams, R (1961). The long revolution. London: Penguin.
90. Williams, R (1977). Marxism and literature. New York: Oxford University Press.
91. Winsor, D. A. (1999). Genre and activity systems: The role of documentation in maintaining and changing engineering activity systems. Written Communication, 16, 20-224.
92. Zimmerman, B. (1993). Metaphor, frame, and nonverbal communication: An ethnographic study of a technical writing classroom. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 36, 13-143.