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Spurious Coin - A History of Science, Management, and Technical Writing (Hardcover) Loot Price: R566
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Spurious Coin - A History of Science, Management, and Technical Writing (Hardcover): Bernadette Longo

Spurious Coin - A History of Science, Management, and Technical Writing (Hardcover)

Bernadette Longo

Series: SUNY series, Studies in Scientific and Technical Communication

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Spurious Coin constructs a cultural history of technical writing in the United States and the system of scientific knowledge and power it controls. Embedded in this history are tensions between scientific and liberal arts knowledge-making that render technical writing both the genuine and counterfeit corn of scientific knowledge within our culture. When scientific knowledge is made by scientists and engineers, it can circulate as genuine currency in an economy where communication makes knowledge. When scientific knowledge is made by liberal-arts trained technical writers, however, it circulates as spurious currency and threatens the purity of the knowledge economy.

Longo constructs this cultural history around a framework of five intellectual trends: the use of clear, correct English, maximum efficiency of production and operation; the need to contribute to a general fund of scientific knowledge for the betterment of the human condition; the tension between the role of science and art within a culture; and a redemptive urge to purify language and standardize practice.

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Imprint: State University of New York Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: SUNY series, Studies in Scientific and Technical Communication
Release date: May 2000
Authors: Bernadette Longo
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-4555-6
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Writing & editing guides > General
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LSN: 0-7914-4555-0
Barcode: 9780791445556

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