| Series |
SUNY series, Studies in scientific and technical communication
SUNY series, Studies in scientific and technical communication. ^A456671
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| Contents |
Introduction--Transforming Language into Science -- What Is Science? What Is Technology? -- Minting the Coin of Scientific Knowledge -- How Credit for Scientific Knowledge Is Appraised -- Who Gets Credit? -- What Research Does Not See -- Looking at Technical Writing Through a Cultural Study Frame -- Putting Technical Writing Practices in Cultural Contexts -- Issues in Technical Writing Raised Through Cultural Study -- Technical Writing as the Lingua Franca in a Golden Age of Engineering -- What Kind of Knowledge Gets Deposited in Textbooks? -- The Utility of Experiential Knowledge -- The Development of Public Science -- Reforming Scholasticism -- The Rise of Experiential Knowledge and Technical Education -- John Locke, Language, Property Rights, and Coinage -- Defending Science and Technical Education -- Contributing to a General Fund of Scientific Knowledge -- Knowledge in Textbooks -- Technical Writing Practices in Power and Knowledge Systems -- Engineering Specialized Social Organizations -- Engineering as an Application of Pure Scientific Knowledge -- Designing Systematic Administration for Canals and Railroads -- Engineers Become Managers in Complex Social Organizations -- Engineering Management Systems -- Technical Writing as Management System Control -- Natural and Military Efficiency -- New Communication Technologies Support Systematized Management -- Technical Writing Textbook Codifies Systematized Management -- Technical Writers Mint Counterfeit Scientific Knowledge: Strained Relations between Technical Writers and Engineers. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Longo, Bernadette, 1949- Spurious coin. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000 0791445550 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 0585307970 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9780585307978 (electronic bk.) |
