Technical Writing and the Recreation of Reality

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Jan 1985

Technical Writing and the Recreation of Reality

Marilyn Schauer Samuels

Abstract

Technical writing is one kind of creative writing. Using knowledge of facts, audience, and situation, the technical writer recreates reality in a technical report. Concepts of reality and creativity currently operative in philosophy, the physical sciences, cognitive and developmental psychology, history of science, rhetoric, and linguistics provide a theoretical basis for this creative approach to technical writing and confirm that imagining and reasoning are related rather than mutually exclusive thought processes.

Journal: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Published: 1985-01-01
DOI: 10.2190/v6m7-43g5-9pt7-c5bh
Topics: technical communication creative writing

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