Spurious Coin by Bernadette Longo (.PDF)
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Spurious Coin: A History of Science, Management, and Technical Writing (Studies in Scientific and Technical Communication) by Bernadette Longo
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Overview: Offers a narrative history of technical writing as a cultural practice and the system of scientific knowledge it controls.
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 coin 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. Because the stability of the scientific knowledge economy is at stake, scientists and technical writers often find themselves at odds over the value of scientific knowledge minted by non-scientists.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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