Signs, Genres, and Communities in Technical Communication

by M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Michael K. Gilbertson, Michael Gilbertson

Book Overview

This important new text invites readers to step back from their busy professional lives and look at technical communication philosophically, to ask fundamental questions such as what does it mean to communicate? and how do language and graphics - the ""signs"" or ""tools"" of the technical communicator - relate to action in a technological world? Through this excursion in the theory of technical discourse, you will discover a fresh approach to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415784689
• ISBN13: 9780415784689
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"