TY - JOUR
T1 - Playing with Techne
T2 - A Propaedeutic for Technical Communication
AU - Moeller, Ryan
AU - McAllister, Ken
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Frustrated by textbooks that push technical communication students prematurely into workplace scenarios, as well as theories that condemn techne in order to advance a particular agenda, we offer a perspective on techne that respects the formative-not professional-situation of technical writing students and emphasizes the importance for technical writers to attend to history, artistry, and well-developed social relations in their work. We offer historically grounded, creative meditations on techne that emphasize its manifold nature: it is conversational, ingenious, cunning, full of trickery, and unpredictably artistic. Such meditations can replace overly complex workplace scenarios in technical communication classrooms, particularly when an instructor wishes to emphasize knowledge making rather than the mechanics and politics of document production.
AB - Frustrated by textbooks that push technical communication students prematurely into workplace scenarios, as well as theories that condemn techne in order to advance a particular agenda, we offer a perspective on techne that respects the formative-not professional-situation of technical writing students and emphasizes the importance for technical writers to attend to history, artistry, and well-developed social relations in their work. We offer historically grounded, creative meditations on techne that emphasize its manifold nature: it is conversational, ingenious, cunning, full of trickery, and unpredictably artistic. Such meditations can replace overly complex workplace scenarios in technical communication classrooms, particularly when an instructor wishes to emphasize knowledge making rather than the mechanics and politics of document production.
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U2 - 10.1207/s15427625tcq1102_5
DO - 10.1207/s15427625tcq1102_5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85071208491
SN - 1522-6514
VL - 21
SP - 185
EP - 206
JO - International journal of phytoremediation
JF - International journal of phytoremediation
IS - 1
ER -