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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812761103321

Autore

Killingsworth M. Jimmie

Titolo

Signs, Genres, and Communities in Technical Communication / / by M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Michael K Gilbertson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2018]

©1992

ISBN

1-315-22372-4

0-89503-501-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Collana

Baywood's technical communications series

Disciplina

808/.0666

Soggetti

Technical writing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-251) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Signs -- pt. II. Genres -- pt. III. Communities.

Sommario/riassunto

This important new text invites readers to step back from their busy professional lives and look at technical communication philosophically, to ask fundamental questions such as what does it mean to communicate? and how do language and graphics - the ""signs"" or ""tools"" of the technical communicator - relate to action in a technological world? Through this excursion in the theory of technical discourse, you will discover a fresh approach to reports, manuals, and proposals produced and consumed daily in business, government, and research organizations around the world. The authors examine familiar genres in two relatively new ways.