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Comprised of a study spanning over five years, this text looks at
four engineering co-op students as they write at work. Since the
contributors have a foot in both worlds -- work and school -- the
book should appeal to people who are interested in how students
learn to write as well as people who are interested in what writing
at work is like. Primarily concerned with whether engineers see
their writing as rhetorical or persuasive, the study attempts to
describe the students' changing understanding of what it is they do
when they write.
Two features of engineering practice that have particular impact
on the extent to which engineers recognize persuasion are
identified:
* a reverence for data, and
* the hierarchical structure of the organizations in which
engineering is most commonly done.
Both of these features discourage an open recognition of
persuasion. Finally, the study shows that the four co-op students
learned most of what they knew about writing at work by engaging in
situated practice in the workplace, rather than by attending formal
classes.
Comprised of a study spanning over five years, this text looks at
four engineering co-op students as they write at work. Since the
contributors have a foot in both worlds -- work and school -- the
book should appeal to people who are interested in how students
learn to write as well as people who are interested in what writing
at work is like. Primarily concerned with whether engineers see
their writing as rhetorical or persuasive, the study attempts to
describe the students' changing understanding of what it is they do
when they write.
Two features of engineering practice that have particular impact
on the extent to which engineers recognize persuasion are
identified:
* a reverence for data, and
* the hierarchical structure of the organizations in which
engineering is most commonly done.
Both of these features discourage an open recognition of
persuasion. Finally, the study shows that the four co-op students
learned most of what they knew about writing at work by engaging in
situated practice in the workplace, rather than by attending formal
classes.
Adds to our understanding of the powerful nature of texts and
writing. Writing Power examines the way that texts, knowledge, and
hierarchy generate and support one another within a for-profit
corporation. By encouraging us to see texts and writing as powerful
operators in the corporate world, this book presents a case-study
focused on how one engineering organization uses texts to create
and maintain its knowledge and power structure. Based on over five
years of observations, the book describes the co-generation of
power/knowledge/text from several points of view. including that of
managers, engineers, interns, and blue-collar workers. These groups
of people use texts to build knowledge within their own areas and
establish control over their work when it is passed along to the
other groups. Employing Bourdieu's notion that people possess
different kinds of "capital" that can be converted to one another
under the right circumstances, the book demonstrates that text is
one of the major ways that this conversion of capital takes place,
and is thus one of the major ways that power and knowledge are
generated and accumulated.
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