Ethics in Technical Communication provides students and
practitioners with a clear introduction to ethics--from Aristotle
through the present--and suggests how these accounts can help
technical communicators think through the kinds of dilemmas that
inevitably arise in their working lives. Markel critiques current
scholarship linking ethics and technical communication, then
presents a flexible model for ethical decision-making that draws on
the values of rights, justice, utility, and care. He then applies
the model in examining the technical communicator's obligations in
five critical areas: truthtelling, liability, multicultural
communication, intellectual property, and codes of conduct. Markel
first defines key terms, justifies the examination of ethics and
technical communication, surveys the scholarly literature on the
subject, and describes some of the basic assumptions underlying a
serious study of ethics. Next, he presents concise overviews of
Kantian rights and utilitarianism, the transitional ethical
theories of the early 20th century, and several strands of
contemporary ethical theory, including virtue ethics, the ethic of
care, and postmodern ethics. He then explores his own approach,
which calls for a fluid, non-hierarchical analysis conducted in an
open-, non-coercive environment, as described in contemporary
accounts of discourse ethics. This approach is used in the second
part of the book, which focuses on truthtelling, liability,
multiculturalism, intellectual property, and codes of conduct. In
each of these chapters, Markel defines the problem, summarizes and
critiques the scholarly literature, presents an approach to
thinking about the problem sensitively andrealistically, and
concludes with a case and a response to it.
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