Textual dynamics of the professions : historical and contemporary studies of writing in professional communities
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Textual dynamics of the professions : historical and contemporary studies of writing in professional communities
（Rhetoric of the human sciences）
University of Wisconsin Press, c1991
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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How do discursive differences between legal professionals and jurors affect courtroom decisions? How does the DSM-III - the American Psychiatric Association's taxonomy of mental disorders - shape psychiatric practice? How can a narrative of social progress shape scientific theory? How do conflicting problem-solving strategies within a community contribute to technological disasters like Three Mile Island and the Shuttle Challenger? This book is a collection of 15 essays examining the real effects of texts on professional practice - in academic, scientific, and business settings. The authors describe textual dynamics as an interaction in which professional texts and discourses are constructed by, and in turn construct, social practices. This anthology treats a wide range of professional texts including case studies, student papers, medieval letters and product instructions.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Textual construction of the professions: how natural philosophers can co-operate, Charles Bazeman
- stories and styles in two molecular biology review articles, Greg Myers
- the rhetoric of literary criticism, Jeanne Fahnestock and Marie Secor
- medieval art of letter writing, Les Perelman
- the role of narrative structure on the transfer of ideas, Ann Harleman Stewart
- scientific rhetoric in the 19th and early 20th centuries, James P.Zappen. Part 2 The dynamics of discourse communities: toward a sociocognitire model of literacy, Cheryl Geisler
- social context and socially constructed texts, Carol Berkenkotter et al
- meaning attribution in ambiguous texts on sociology, Robert A.Schwegler and Linda Shamoon
- texts in oral context, Gail Stygall. Part 3 The operational force of texts: text and action, James Paradis
- understanding failures in organizational discourse, Carl G.Herndl et al
- creating a text - creating a company, Stephen Doheny-Farina
- intertextuality in tax accounting, Amy J.Devitt
- a psychiatrist using DSM-III, Lucille Parkinson McCarthy.
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