Discussion Post
The Paradis article allows some very practical assembly of several concepts we've studied so far - the role of the technical writer, legality, genre, ethics, and technology. The endnotes describe some of the origins of the studgun, which may suggest it is not inherently a construction technology... but the question that hovers around this article for me is "who is responsible?
Mirel's piece constitutes an argument for a rhetorical understanding and pedagogy of data reports - no surprise, again, given our previous readings. I wonder - is there a problem in technical communication that cannot be blithely answered by asking for a more rhetorical-critical-contextual understanding of documents, data, and the people assembling and composing them?
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