Spurious Coin : A History of Science, Management, and Technical Writing

, by Longo, Bernadette

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ISBN: 9780791445556 | 0791445550
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/1/2000

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Author Biography

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Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction-Transforming Language into Science

What Is Science? What Is Technology?

Minting the Coin of Scientific Knowledge

xii

How Credit for Scientific Knowledge Is Appraised

(20)

Who Gets Credit?

(1)

What Research Does Not See

(3)

Looking at Technical Writing Through a Cultural Study Frame

(6)

Putting Technical Writing Practices in Cultural Contexts

(7)

Issues in Technical Writing Raised Through Cultural Study

(2)

Technical Writing as the Lingua Franca in a Golden Age of Engineering

(23)

What Kind of Knowledge Gets Deposited in Textbooks?

(7)

The Utility of Experiential Knowledge

(4)

The Development of Public Science

(6)

Reforming Scholasticism

(4)

The Rise of Experiential Knowledge and Technical Education

(18)

John Locke, Language, Property Rights, and Coinage

(7)

Defending Science and Technical Education

(7)

Contributing to a General Fund of Scientific Knowledge

(16)

Knowledge in Textbooks

(6)

Technical Writing Practices in Power and Knowledge Systems

(2)

Engineering Specialized Social Organizations

(22)

Engineering as an Application of Pure Scientific Knowledge

(2)

Designing Systematic Adminstration for Canals and Railroads

(3)

Engineers Become Managers in Complex Social Organizations

(6)

Engineering Management Systems

(6)

Technical Writing as Management System Control

100

(22)

Natural and Military Efficiency

104

(5)

New Communication Technologies Support Systematized Management

109

(5)

Technical Writing Textbook Codifies Systematized Management

114

(8)

Technical Writers Mint Counterfeit Scientific Knowledge: Strained Relations between Technical Writers and Engineers

122

(40)

Office Management Becomes a Specialized Field

126

(9)

The Practicality of Engineering in Tension with the Enjoyment of Literature

135

(9)

Technical Writing Moves from Engineering to English

144

(9)

English Embraces Science

153

(9)

Whose Knowledge Is Powerful?

162

(7)

Toward a Humanistic Technical Writing

164

(5)

Notes

169

(10)

References

179

(16)

Index

195

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