The Rhetoric of Risk: Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments (Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society): Amazon.de: Beverly J. Sauer, Sauer: Englische Bücher

Gebundene Ausgabe: 384 Seiten
Verlag: Mallory International (13. Dezember 2002)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0805836853
ISBN-13: 978-0805836851
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 2,3 x 1,6 x 0,3 cm
Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 996.469 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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The crash of an Amtrak train near Baltimore, the collapse of the Hyatt hotel in Kansas City, the incident at Three Mile Island, and other large-scale technological disasters have provided powerful examples of the ways that communication practices influence the events and decisions that precipitate a disaster. These examples have raised ethical questions about the responsibility of writers within agencies, epistemological questions about the nature of representation in science, and rhetorical questions about the nature of expertise and experience as grounds for judgments about risk. In The Rhetoric of Risk: Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments, author Beverly Sauer examines how the dynamic uncertainty of the material environment affects communication in large regulatory industries. Sauer's analysis focuses specifically on mine safety, which provides a rich technical and historical context where problems of rhetorical agency, narrative, and the negotiation of meaning have visible and tragic outcomes. But the questions Sauer asks have larger implication for risk and safety: How does writing function in large regulatory industries? What can we learn from experience? Why is this experience so difficult to capture in writing? What information is lost when agencies rely on written documentation alone? Given the uncertainties, how can we work to improve communication in hazardous and uncertain environments? By exploring how individuals make sense of the material, technical, and institutional indeterminancies of their work in speech and gesture, The Rhetoric of Risk helps communicators rethink their frequently unquestioned assumptions about workplace discourse and the role of writers in hazardous worksites. It is intended for scholars and students in technical writing and communication, rhetoric, risk analysis and risk communication, as well as a wide range of engineering and technical fields concerned with risk, safety, and uncertainty.

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This work examines rhetorical practice relating to situations of risk and how documents and communication succeed or fail in these contexts. It should be of use to scholars in technical communication, rhetoric, and related areas.

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Good introduction to issues of technical reports 5. Mai 2008

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I found this book to be a good introduction to issues of documenting accidents as well as the creation of technical reports by engineers from the narratives of people who are not engineers but with a great deal of tacit knowledge about risky environments. While the primary focus of the research documented in this book is for the coal mining idustry, the material has applications to other types of hazardous industries as well as to any project which involves people of differing specialities. For me this book pulled together some other readings on the construction of social reality and the transformation of information derived from different, non-scientific viewpoints into a technical report suitable for managers and engineers. Of especial interest to me was the section on gestures and how gestures provide information in a visual way that is seldom captured with any degree of accuracy within technical reports.

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