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Spurious Coin A History of Science, Management, and Technical Writing

Paperback • 2000 • English

Spurious Coin A History of Science, Management, and Technical Writing

By Bernadette Longo

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About the book

Spurious Coin constructs a cultural history of technical writing in the United States and the system of scientific knowledge and power it controls. Embedded in this history are tensions between scientific and liberal arts knowledge-making that render technical writing both the genuine and counterfeit coin of scientific knowledge within our culture. When scientific knowledge is made by scientists and engineers, it can circulate as genuine currency in an economy where communication makes knowledge...Show more

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9780791445563

Publisher

SUNY Press

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

Spurious Coin A History of Science, Management, and Technical Writing

Format

Paperback

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