Technical Communication Quarterly Jul 2004

Technical Communication and the Role of the Public Intellectual: A Community HIV-Prevention Case Study

Melody Bowdon

Abstract

Abstract This article argues that technical communicators are uniquely poised to function as public intellectuals. To demonstrate this point, the author offers the example of her work on a major AIDS prevention program report. Situating this work within the history of technical communication, the current discussion of rhetorics of risk, and the writing classroom, the author argues that technical writers don't have simply the opportunity to engage in textual activism; in many cases they have no alternative.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2004-07-01
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10.1207/s15427625tcq1303_6
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