Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Apr 1983

Bibliography of Articles on the History of Technical Writing

R. John Brockmann

Abstract

This collection of thirty-six articles exposes the problem and the promise of historical research in technical writing. The central problem is that historical research in technical writing has too often been focused only on celebrated authors or scientists as technical writers. The central promise contained in some very recent essays is that historical research in technical communications is beginning to consider the slow evolution of technical communication taking place across a broad spectrum of both celebrated and uncelebrated writers. This historical approach, though more difficult to carry out, is immensely more accurate and meaningful.

Journal
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Published
1983-04-01
DOI
10.2190/1lar-4plu-ekq3-302w
Topics
technical communication

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (7)

  1. HAGGE (1995)
    Early Engineering Writing Textbooks and the Anthropological Complexity of Disci…
    Written Communication
  2. RIVERS (1994)
    Studies in the History of Business and Technical Writing
    Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  3. Tebeaux et al. (1992)
    Expanding and redirecting historical research in technical writing: In search o…
    Technical Communication Quarterly
  4. TEBEAUX (1991)
    Visual Language
    Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  5. Allen (1991)
    Thematic Repetition as Rhetorical Technique
    Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
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  1. Hagge (1990)
    The First Technical Writer in English: A Challenge to the Hegemony of Chaucer
    Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
  2. Brockmann (1988)
    Does Clio Have a Place in Technical Writing? Considering Patents in a History o…
    Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

Cites in this index (8)

  1. Lipson (1982)
    Descriptions and Instructions in Medieval Times: Lessons to be Learnt from Geof…
    Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
  2. Sesto (1981)
    The Science Journalist and Early Popular Magazine Coverage of Nuclear Energy
    Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
  3. Tebeaux (1981)
    Franklin's <i>Autobiography</i> — Important Lessons in Tone, Syntax, and Persona
    Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
  4. Kilgore (1981)
    Moby-Dick: A Whale of a Handbook for Technical Writing Teachers
    Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
  5. Strauss (1981)
    Does Teaching Involve Informing?
    Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
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  1. Gresham (1979)
    George Washington Carver and the Art of Technical Communication
    Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
  2. Gresham (1977)
    Benjamin Franklin's Contributions to the Development of Technical Communication
    Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
  3. Novozhilov et al. (1976)
    Fifty Years after the Death of Flammarion, the Science Popularizer
    Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
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  3. Jones Richard F., Science and English Prose Style in the Third Quarter of the Seventeenth Century, Publicatio…
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