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Sommario
Preface
Introduction
PART I: KEY INDIVIDUALS IN THE HISTORY OF TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION
Landmark Essay: How Natural Philosophers Can Cooperate: The Literacy Technology of Coordinated Investigation in Joseph Priestley's History and Present State of Electricity, Charles Bazerman
Landmark Essay: Francis Bacon and the Historiography of Scientific Rhetoric, James P. Zappen
Oliver Evans and His Antebellum Wrestling with Rhetorical Arrangement, R. John Brockmann
Sada A. Harbarger's Contribution to Technical Communication in the 1920s, Teresa Kynell
PART II: KEY EUROPEAN MOVEMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION
The Emergence of Women Technical Writers in the 17th Century: Changing Voices Within a Changing Milieu, Elizabeth Tebeaux
Landmark Essay: The Plain Style in Scientific and Technical Writing, Merrill D. Whitburn
Deconstructing Depression: A Historical Study of the Metaphorical Aspects of an Illness, Henrietta Nickels Shirk
Renaissance Surveying Techniques and the 1590 Hariot-White-de Bry Map of Virginia, Michael G. Moran
PART III: KEY AMERICAN MOVEMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION
Landmark Essay: The Rise of Technical Writing Instruction in America, Robert J. Connors
Interfacing: Multiple Visions of Computer Use in Technical Communication, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Stuart A. Selber and Cynthia L. Selfe
Refining a Social Consciousness: Late 20th Century Influences, Effects, and Ongoing Struggles in Technical Communication, Jo Allen
PART IV: BIBLIOGRAPHY IN THE HISTORY OF TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION
Studies in the History of Business and Technical Writing: A Bibliographical Essay, William Rivers
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TERESA KYNELL is Associate Professor of English at Northern Michigan University.
MICHAEL G. MORAN is Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia where he co=directs the freshman English Program. He has edited or co-edited six books. His interests include 18th century British literature, the history of rhetorical theory and practice, and the history of technical communication.
