Signs, Genres, and Communities in Technical Communication

Looks at technical communication philosophically, asks 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?

M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Michael Gilbertson

Foreword Joe Chew Acknowledgments List of Tables and Figures Introduction: A Three-Part Theory of Technical Communication PART I. SIGNS A General Theory of Signs Representation in Document Design PART II. GENRES Genres of Technical Communication Generic Audiences in Technical Communication Generic Authors in Technical Communication PART III. COMMUNITIES Style and Human Action in Technical Writing Communities of Discourse Management and the Writing Process The Range of Instrumental Discourse Bibliography Index