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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