Signs, Genres, and Communities in Technical Communication

by M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Michael K Gilbertson

Overview

This important new text invites readers to step back from their busy professional lives and look at technical communication philosophically, to ask fundamental questions such as what does it mean to communicate? and how do language and graphics - the ""signs"" or ""tools"" of the technical communicator - relate to action in a technological world? Through this excursion in the theory of technical discourse, you will discover a fresh approach to reports, manuals, and proposals produced and consumed daily in business, government, and research organizations around the world. The authors examine familiar genres in two relatively new ways.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351841740
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/20/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Michael Gilbertson

Table of Contents

Foreword Joe Chew

Acknowledgments

List of Tables and Figures

Introduction: A Three-Part Theory of Technical Communication

PART I. SIGNS
 A General Theory of Signs
 Representation in Document Design

PART II. GENRES
 Genres of Technical Communication
 Generic Audiences in Technical Communication
 Generic Authors in Technical Communication

PART III. COMMUNITIES
 Style and Human Action in Technical Writing
 Communities of Discourse
 Management and the Writing Process
 The Range of Instrumental Discourse
 Bibliography
 Index