Writing Power: Communication in an Engineering Center - Rilegato

Winsor, Dorothy A.

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ISBN 10: 0791457575 ISBN 13: 9780791457573

Casa editrice: State Univ of New York Pr, 2003

Riassunto

Winner of the 2004 Distinguished Publication on Business Communication presented by the Association of Business Communication

Writing Power examines the way that texts, knowledge, and hierarchy generate and support one another within a for-profit corporation. By encouraging us to see texts and writing as powerful operators in the corporate world, this book presents a case study focused on how one engineering organization uses texts to create and maintain its knowledge and power structure. Based on over five years of observations, the book describes the co-generation of power/knowledge/text from several points of view, including that of managers, engineers, interns, and blue-collar workers. These groups of people use texts to build knowledge within their own areas and establish control over their work when it is passed along to the other groups. Employing Bourdieu's notion that people possess different kinds of "capital" that can be converted to one another under the right circumstances, the book demonstrates that text is one of the major ways that this conversion of capital takes place, and is thus one of the major ways that power and knowledge are generated and accumulated.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Dorothy A. Winsor is Professor of English at Iowa State University. She is the author of Writing Like an Engineer: A Rhetorical Education.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: State Univ of New York Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0791457575
• ISBN 13: 9780791457573
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile