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Brockmann R. John (1982)
Technical Communication
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This article describes the stylistic changes in a short prose passage written by Joseph Glanvill in 1676. One…
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10.1109/TEWS.1965.6594555
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(1978)
Technical Communication
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This short article examines the diction of an article published by Davy in 1816 and points out how it exempli…
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Connaughton, Michael., Technical Writing in America: A Historical Perspective, in Technical Writing: Past, Pr…
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This ground-breaking article describes the place of historical considerations in the discipline of technical …
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Sesto (1981)
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
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*This article is a sample of science and technology stories about the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, drawn …
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10.1126/science.197.4306.827
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Thinking with pictures is an essential strand in the intellectual history of technological development in the…
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Ferguson Richard W. “Fear God and Take Your Own Part.” Ethical Imperatives and Technical Writing — Some Turn-…
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*Unlike the pluralistic view which dominates our perception of our society today, many of our predecessors he…
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Freedman William A. (1961)
Society of Technical Writers and Publisher Review
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*Before the current technological era, the appellation “technical writer” and the term “instruction manual,” …
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Gresham (1977)
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
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*Addressing the professional communicator, the technical writing teacher and the interested student, this art…
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Gresham Stephen L.
Proceedings of the 24th International Technical Communications Conference
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*The modern technical communicator needs to be aware of the legacy of scientific and technical writing in Ame…
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Gresham Stephen L. (1978)
Technical Communication
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*Technical writing was born in the military manual mills of World War II, according to a popular notion, but …
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Gresham (1979)
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
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*The achievements of great men like George Washington Carver are often perpetuated by myth; but more often th…
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Thus, this article seeks to identify Carver's achievements as a technical communicator through a brief analys…
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Gresham Stephen L. (1981)
Courses, Components, and Exercises in Technical Communication
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*Many students in technical writing classes are absorbed in the immediate developments within their technical…
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Hargis Charles C. (1961)
Society of Technical Writers and Publishers Review
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*Benjamin Franklin was an editor, a publisher, and a printer, but first of all he was a writer. His technical…
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Harris Elizabeth (1981)
Language and History in the Sciences and Technologies: Towards a Hierarchical Semantics o…
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A historical understanding of a technical or scientific document allows one to understand the conceptual para…
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Jones Richard F., Science and English Prose Style in the Third Quarter of the Seventeenth Century, Publicatio…
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This article traces the impact of the Royal Society's linguistic reformers — Sprat, Petty, Wilkins, et al. — …
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Kilgore (1981)
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
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*Moby-Dick is a classic of technical literature as well as a classic of American literature. But for the tech…
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Kelley Shari A. (1980)
Technical Communication
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This short article discusses how the nineteenth century British geologist Sir Charles Lyell effectively commu…
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Lay Mary M. (1980)
Technical Communication
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This brief article discusses how John Snow's 1824 paper, “The Prevention of Cholera,” exemplifies the rhetori…
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Lipson Carol, I Am But a Lewd Compilator: Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe as Translation, Neuphilo-logisc…
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*This article looks at the extent of Chaucer's dependence on sources; it finds inapplicable the common design…
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Lipson (1982)
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
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*This paper examines Chaucer's place in the manual tradition of the period. It looks at the strengths of his …
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Markel Michael H. (1979)
Technical Communication
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*Modern technical communicators can learn a thing or two by studying the work of pioneers in the field. Analy…
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Masse Roger E. (1977)
Technical and Professional Communication
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The two authors discuss how they introduce students to the “long and great” tradition of technical and scient…
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Miller Walter James (1975)
The Teaching of Technical Writing
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*Passages from the works of technical writers of the past are presented and discussed by the author, who stat…
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Novozhilov et al. (1976)
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
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*The fiftieth anniversary of the death of Camille Flammarion, the great French astronomer, is the occasion fo…
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Ovitt George, A Late Medieval Technical Directive: Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe, Proceedings of the 28…
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*Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe, which is the oldest treatment of a technical subject in English, was wr…
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Paradis James G., The Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, and Some Origins of the Modern Technical Paper, Proceed…
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*The interaction of science and literary tradition in the mid-seventeenth century is an important source of t…
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Paradis James G. (1983)
New Essays in Scientific and Technical Writing and Communication
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Although largely based on the vernacular, scientific language draws much of its vocabulary from distinct lexi…
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Scott Geoffrey (1982)
Technical Communication
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*Eramus Darwin (1731–1802) was a renowned English physician and scientist. He was also the author of extremel…
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Shulman Joel J. (1960)
Society of Technical Writers and Publishers
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This article discusses the activities of people whose primary work has been technical writing from Babylonian…
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Shulman Joel J. (1960)
Society of Technical Writers and Publishers
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*Once in a rare while a person achieves stature as a scientist on the basis of work that is primarily a colle…
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Shulman Joel J. (1963)
Society of Technical Writers and Publishers Review
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*A dedication to learning was one of the outstanding characteristics of the Puritan religious movement in Eng…
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10.2190/NETC9
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During their careers, Renaissance scientists such as Paracelsus, Bacon, Galileo, Kepler, and Copernicus disco…
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Tebeaux (1981)
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
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*Having students read selected portions of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography provides unique and effective ma…
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Whittaker Delia A. (1979)
Technical Communication
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This short article investigates the personal stylistic attributes of an experiment written up by Joseph Pries…
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Zappen James P.
Proceedings of the 24th International Technical Communications Conference
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*The topics of classical rhetoric are familiar methods in the communication of scientific and technical infor…
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10.2307/356123
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*Bacon's comments on logic and rhetoric reveal a comprehensive view of the communication process. In particul…
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Internship Programs: Current Practices and Future Changes, Proceedings of the Council for Programs in Technic…
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Strauss (1981)
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
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(1981)
American Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for System's Documentation Newsletter
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A Reformed Writer in 1676, Technical Communications, Fall 1982.
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Cases for Composition Versus Casebook Rhetoric, Teaching English in the Two Year College, Spring 1982.