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Toward a rhetoric of engineering: Explorations in the practices of engineers and the implications for the teaching of technical communication.

机译：迈向工程学的口号：探索工程师的实践及其对技术交流教学的启示。

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This dissertation addresses the lack of a theoretically rich, rhetorical understanding of the inventive and knowledge producing practices of working engineers. Even though the growing discipline of professional and technical communication has begun to focus on the discourse practices of engineers, technical communication scholarship has produced only research and pedagogy that is attentive to audience awareness. My research instead shows the ways that rhetoric is embedded in all engineering activities. I develop a rhetoric of engineering that I define as an iterative, recursive, and epistemic process, and claim the communications and discourse required for a successful engineering project are rhetorical. Recursion promotes revision to engineering documentation and compels engineers to reassess their world view of a project. That is, rhetorical engineering can actually prevent solipsistic engineering practices common in all of the major disciplines. The rhetoric of engineering's recursivity spawns multiple iterations or versions of the texts necessary for a successful project. These iterations effectively create an archive for an engineering project that serves as an external memory device for an engineering team. Chapter one contains a rhetorical analysis of software requirement specifications for a professionally developed software application from the medical industry. I demonstrate how the text from this pre-engineering design document becomes embedded in the final material product that is the saleable software application. In chapter two I adapt Aristotle's special topics to serve an engineering audience. I apply my new special topics of engineering to real-life engineering situations provided in the form of profiles that document a calendar day of a working engineer. I critique the major textbooks used to teach engineers communication skills in chapter three and propose my own curriculum in chapter four. I believe that the challenges of interdepartmental collaboration necessitated by English writing instructors teaching engineering students provides an important site for theoretical and pedagogical innovation. My findings make an important contribution to the ongoing debate about the nature, definition, and role of technical communication and about appropriate instructional methodologies for teaching engineers communication.
机译：本文解决了对工作工程师的发明和知识生产实践缺乏理论上丰富的修辞理解的问题。尽管不断增长的专业和技术交流学科已开始将重点放在工程师的话语实践上，但技术交流奖学金仅产生了关注受众意识的研究和教学法。相反，我的研究显示了将言辞嵌入所有工程活动中的方式。我开发了一种工程术语，我将其定义为迭代，递归和认知过程，并声称成功的工程项目所需的交流和话语是修辞性的。递归促进了对工程文档的修订，并迫使工程师重新评估他们对项目的世界观。也就是说，修辞工程学实际上可以阻止所有主要学科中普遍采用的固执的工程学实践。工程学递归性的措辞催生了成功项目所需的多次迭代或文本版本。这些迭代有效地为工程项目创建了存档，该存档可用作工程团队的外部存储设备。第一章对医疗行业专业开发的软件应用程序的软件需求规范进行了详尽的分析。我将演示该工程前设计文档中的文本如何嵌入到最终的材料产品（即可销售的软件应用程序）中。在第二章中，我将亚里士多德的特殊主题应用于服务于工程学的读者。我将我的工程学新的特殊主题应用于以文档形式记录工作工程师的日历的现实生活中的工程情况。在第三章中，我批评了用来教工程师交流技巧的主要教科书，在第四章中，提出了我自己的课程。我认为，英语写作讲师在工程学专业的教学中所需要的部门间协作的挑战为理论和教学创新提供了重要的场所。我的发现为正在进行的有关技术交流的性质，定义和作用以及有关工程师交流的适当教学方法的辩论做出了重要贡献。

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  • 作者

    Ballentine, Brian Douglas.;

  • 作者单位

    Case Western Reserve University.;

  • 授予单位 Case Western Reserve University.;
  • 学科 Language Rhetoric and Composition.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2006
  • 页码 203 p.
  • 总页数 203
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 语言学;
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