Baehr 5371 CW Ch 1 & 2 notes

CW Ch 1 Connors

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technical writer vs. technician who write
tech wtg teachers vs. tchr in a technical discipline who teaches writing

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late 19th century rse in engineering schools

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circa 1900: complaints re: wrtg quality

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Earle: 3 starred key points TYPE UP
cultural split

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1910-20 Basic TW curriculum developed

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many Ts of TW in Eng depts were not interested in being there
Eng depts. critted tech colleagues

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1920s TW growing
txts; Ts who saw self as TW Ts

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depression hit field 1930s
still low status for TW folks
1930s: tech forms approach popular w/teachers
field grows, status static

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during WW2, tech report writing became a job
corps liek GM opened up TW depts

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forms, genre grows

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STW formed
1954 Mill's & Walter's TW: rhet approach; does it work?

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50s-60s
more audience awareness; TW moves beyond engineering
still no academic respect; Sputnik 1957 increased respect/status of TW for a period

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R. Hays & W. E. Britton def of TW GET QUOTE
professionalism/ self-awareness gorwing
prof/academic respect NOT growing: mostly grad Ss & low-level faculty teaching it

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proposal writing became a more serious form
late 60s: Engineering Ss numbers shrank & TW classes shrank

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JTWC started in 1970
1971 Hbk of TW practitioners
1973 ATTW formed
1976 MLA recognized TW

Industry still needed specialists

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1970s growth in classes/texts
1980s scholarship is thriving



Ch 2
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GET Winterowd's Comp/Rhet: synth for TW teacher

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what TW is GET QUOTE
parts of TW: lrng to think well AND be useful to others

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TW needs to associate more w/liberal education
focus on better contextualization of the discipline

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being & knowing over doing & willing
QUintillian: character precedes action
Bacon: induction

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Thomas Huxley: applied science & tech needs pure science

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TC can't afford to exaggerate the importance or perfection of science
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history of scientific community: 17th century mails; experiments; small group of men
1881 in Britain: technical education opened up
1862 in US: Morrill Act: land grant colleges

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remembering & ujnderstanding history of TW enables use of strengths & to cut dead weight
writing creates its own version of reality

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tw: produce writing that accomodates technology to user

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TC puts knowledge into practice

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just as important to master craft is to work well with others
TC as collaboration

Geertz: culture as a set of control mechanisms
=don't get lost in idea of culture--it's a big diea

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rtrn TC to rhetoric & liberal arts

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be articulate citizens
use rhetoric in an active life/living