Technical Communication Quarterly Dec 2009

Posthuman Rhetorics and Technical Communication

Andrew Mara North Dakota State University ; Byron Hawk George Mason University

Abstract

This special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly brings posthuman perspectives to bear on the kinds of metarhetorical, organizational, and intertextual problems that are central to technical...

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2009-12-29
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10.1080/10572250903373031
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