The Origins of the Art and Practice of Professional Writing
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9729-7 (ISBN)
The Origins of the Art and Practice of Professional Writing addresses the classic divide in teaching written skills between rhetoric/composition and technical/professional communication (TPC). It explores a body of texts that were created earlier than any yet identified by either field: ancient Mesopotamian documents, produced in the eighth century BCE. The book debunks two myths: it shows that rhetoric was practiced consciously and taught systematically long before the Greek civilization existed; and because a large swathe of the public, while not fully literate, had access to the services of scribes, not just men, but women, merchants, and even slaves utilized writing as a tool for social justice. From their earliest writings, humans consciously applied principles of persuasion to the documents that they produced. Rather than being two distinct fields, rhetoric and professional communication are intertwined in their histories.
Kathryn Rosser Raign is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Texas. She is the coauthor of Write and Communicate Like a Professional and coauthor of Writing for Result.
List of Illustration
Acknowledgments
Preface
Prologue
Introduction: Expanding the History and Purpose of Technical Communication
1. Cylinder Seals: Written Communication's First Technological Breakthrough
2. Ancient Technical Manuals and Letters: The Origins of Instructional Writing
3. Finding Our Missing Pieces: Women Technical Writers in Ancient Mesopotamia
4. Decentering the History of the Writing Center: A Case for the Mesopotamian Edubba as an Early Writing Center
5. Mythos, Nomos, Logos: Evidence of Sophistic Reasoning before the Sophists
6. Myth, Magic, and Medicine: Medical Writing in Ancient Mesopotamia
7. Writing as Social Justice
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.09.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | SUNY series, Studies in Technical Communication |
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 31 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 227 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-9729-6 / 1438497296 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-9729-7 / 9781438497297 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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