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Peer reviewedHenson, Leigh – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1994
Discusses the rhetorical elements of technical copywriting, including its shared communicative aims with technical writing; authorship considerations such as ethics, education, and professionalism; and the concerns of promotional strategy, audience analysis, choice of media and materials, writing strategy, and style. (SR)
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Ethics, Rhetoric
Peer reviewedFarkas, David K. – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1999
Explains the rhetorical implications of actions and states in various models of procedural discourse and in specific writer strategies. Considers more flexible alternatives to the "streamlined-step" model. States that one goal of technical communicators may be to help ensure that systems are designed, developed, implemented, and supported with…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Modes, Higher Education
