Busting The Myth Of The Communication Me

Name: Busting The Myth Of The Communication Me
Brand: State University of New York Press

State University of New York Press

Busting the Myth of the Communication MetaphorHow Technical Writing Conventions Perpetuate Injustice\nAuthor(s): Sarah Read\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9798855802894, 979-8855802894\nSynopsis\nTraces the linguistic, rhetorical, historical, cultural, and economic origins of our most basic beliefs and practices for successful technical writing to initiate a reckoning about who they serve and who they harm.\n\nBusting the Myth of the Communication Metaphor is a transdisciplinary approach to making visible and explaining the multiple origins of why our most basic beliefs about what makes scientific and technical writing successful are wrong, ineffective, and harmful. These tacitly held beliefs and practices, collectively called the Communication Metaphor, stand in as symbolic for a messier, more reality-based understanding of how writing and communication works. By starting from con.