Spurious coin:a history of science, management, and technical writing

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Longo Bernadette 1949-
Published: State University of New York Press,
Publisher Address: Albany
Publication Dates: c2000.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: SUNY series, Studies in scientific and technical communication
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Carrier Form: xv, 204 p.: ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 0791445550 (hc : alk. paper)
0791445569 (pb : alk. paper)
Index Number: H052
CLC: H052
Call Number: H052/L856
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1: How credit for scientific knowledge is appraised -- Chapter 2: Technical writing as the Lingua Franca in a golden age of engineering -- Chapter 3: The rise of experiential knowledge and technical education -- Chapter 4: Contributing to a general fund of scientific knowledge -- Chapter 5: Engineering specialized social organizations -- Chapter 6: Technical writing as management system control -- Chapter 7: Technical writers mint counterfeit scientific knowledge: strained relations between technical writers and engineers -- Chapter 8: Whose knowledge is powerful?