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Tom Wright, a PhD candidate in my department, has asked me to come and speak to his students in “WRIT 3001 Introduction to Scientific and Technical Communication” on November 29 about technical communication in the law. I had originally suggested to Tom that we have the students read an interesting article about the denial of rhetoric in legal discourse for which I’m hoping soon to post an annotation (Wetlaufer 1990). After talking to Tom today, though, I think I want to take a different tack (and I think he’d prefer that, too). What we discussed today is that I would provide a Read More …

Thralls and Blyler Thralls, C., & Blyler, N. R. (1993). The Social Perspective and Professional Communication. In C. Thralls & N. Blyler (Eds.), Professional Communication: The Social Perspective (pp. 3-34). Newbury Park, C.A.: Sage Publications, Inc. Describes three strands of social theory in professional communication research: Social constructionist: “the social constructionist approach focuses on community, viewing communal entities as the sources of knowledge maintained by consensual agreement; as the respositories of discourse conventions by which communities are defined and shaped; and as the bodies to which nonmembers must—through collaboration—be acculturated.” (p. 131) Ideologic: “ideologic crictics have differed significantly with the Read More …