04084nam 2200673Ia 450 991095674510332120200520144314.09780791486702079148670210.1515/9780791486702(CKB)2670000000241301(EBL)3408412(SSID)ssj0000778422(PQKBManifestationID)12352749(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000778422(PQKBWorkID)10763379(PQKB)11208402(Au-PeEL)EBL3408412(CaPaEBR)ebr10594739(OCoLC)923416494(DE-B1597)683194(DE-B1597)9780791486702(MiAaPQ)EBC3408412(Perlego)2674599(EXLCZ)99267000000024130120020813d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWriting power communication in an engineering center /Dorothy A. Winsor1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20031 online resource (184 p.)SUNY series, Studies in scientific and technical communicationDescription based upon print version of record.9780791457580 0791457583 9780791457573 0791457575 Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-170) and index.""Writing Power""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Vignette 1. Scenes in an Engineering Center(and Elsewhere)""; ""1. Using Writing to Negotiate Knowledge and Power""; ""Vignette 2. Two Hours in an Afternoonof a Manager: Doug""; ""2. Managing the Organization Through Powerful Texts""; ""Vignette 3. A Meeting with Engineers: John""; ""3. Negotiating Knowledge Across, Down, and Up the Hierarchy""; ""Vignette 4. Two Hours in a Technician�s Afternoon: Rich""; ""4. Amassing Knowledge in the Hands of the More Powerful""""Vignette 5. An Engineering Intern�s Morning: Kevin""""5. Entering Systems of Knowledge/Power""; ""6. Knowledge/Power/Texts in an Engineering Center""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""Winner of the 2004 Distinguished Publication on Business Communication presented by the Association of Business CommunicationWriting Power examines the way that texts, knowledge, and hierarchy generate and support one another within a for-profit corporation. By encouraging us to see texts and writing as powerful operators in the corporate world, this book presents a case study focused on how one engineering organization uses texts to create and maintain its knowledge and power structure. Based on over five years of observations, the book describes the co-generation of power/knowledge/text from several points of view, including that of managers, engineers, interns, and blue-collar workers. These groups of people use texts to build knowledge within their own areas and establish control over their work when it is passed along to the other groups. Employing Bourdieu's notion that people possess different kinds of "capital" that can be converted to one another under the right circumstances, the book demonstrates that text is one of the major ways that this conversion of capital takes place, and is thus one of the major ways that power and knowledge are generated and accumulated.SUNY Series, Studies in Scientific and Technical CommunicationCommunication in engineeringTechnical writingCommunication in engineering.Technical writing.620/.001/4Winsor Dorothy A1814754MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910956745103321Writing power4368830UNINA