Christine Barabas, Kathryn Borman

Technical Writing in a Corporate Culture

A Study of the Nature of Information

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With the growing interest in real-world (nonacademic) writing, critics are suggesting that the composition skills taught in schools may have little to do with the written communication skills students later need in their careers. There is a need for studies that examine writing in nonacademic contexts and that look at writing from a social perspective in order to examine the interrelationships among writing processes, texts, readers, and the functions writing serves within specific organizational settings. This volume is an attempt to increase our understanding of the nature of technical writing within an R&D organization by analyzing the three-match among writer intentions, texts, and reader expectations. Part One traces the interest in real-world writing and explores the differences between writing in an academic versus a real-world setting. Part Two provides a theoretical and conceptual background by discussing traditional and emerging models of technical communication, and by exploring different theories about the nature of science, technology, knowledge, information, language, and progress. Part Three describes the objectives, methodologies, findings, and conclusions of the study which investigated the match among the types of information that researchers (scientists and engineers) intend to include in their technical progress reports, the types of information actually contained in their reports, and the types of information that their supervisor readers expect in these reports.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 698g
• ISBN-13: 9780893916039
• ISBN-10: 089391603X
• Artikelnr.: 25610757

Autorenporträt

Christine P. Barabas

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables List of Appendices and Figures Acknowledgments About the
Author Preface to the Series Introduction PART I. WRITING IN ACADEMIC VS.
REAL-WORLD SETTINGS The Growing Interest in Real-World Writing Academic
Views of Writing: Product, Process, and Context Culture, Community, and
Communication Written Communication and Organizational Culture PART II.
EXPLORATIONS IN SCIENCE: TECHNOLOGY, AND COMMUNICATION Scientific and
Technical Writing: What We Know and What We Need to Know Theoretical
Background Toward a Conceptual Framework for the Present Study PART III. A
STUDY OF PROGRESS REPORTS IN AN R&D ORGANIZATION: WRITER INTENTIONS, TEXTS,
AND READER EXPECTATIONS Overview of the Study Phase 1: Interviews with
Writers and Readers Phase 2: The Informational Content of Progress Reports
Phase 3: Identification and Evaluations of Information in Progress Reports
Conclusions References Author Index Subject Index