Technical Communication Quarterly Oct 1997

Experimenting at Home: Writing for the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Workplace

Gail Lippincott

Abstract

This article examines selected texts by Ellen Swallow Richards, a nineteenth-century scientist who wrote for a variety of audiences. Her audience awareness anticipates modem technical communication practices and alerts us to examine gender, class, and other social issues in historical documents as well as current pragmatic discourse.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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1997-10-01
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10.1207/s15427625tcq0604_1
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