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Abstract This article explores the writing of archaeologists to argue that the metaphor of context-as-rhetorical-situation may understate the power that context has to shape scientific discourse. The author offers instead the metaphor of context-as-active-agent in the rhetorical situation—one that sometimes reifies values that are dangerous to the archaeologists' belief systems. As scholars of technical writing, we must develop a greater understanding of the subtle but powerful influences that context wields on the writing we read and help to produce.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
Published
2003-10-01
DOI
10.1207/s15427625tcq1204_3
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  1. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  2. Technical Communication Quarterly
  3. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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