Twisted Rails, Sunken Ships
The Rhetoric of Nineteenth Century Steamboat and Railroad Accident Investigation Reports, 1833-1879
Contemporary disaster investigation reports into the Shuttle, Three Mile Island, or the World Trade Centre did not happen by chance, but were the result of an evolution of the discourse communities involved with investigating technological accidents. The relationships of private companies, coroners, outside experts, and government investigators all had to be developed and experimented with before a genre of investigation reports could exist. This book is the story of the evolution of these investigation discourse communities in published reports written between 1833 and 1879. Using the reports generated by seven different accidents on railroa…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-351-84088-0
- EAN: 9781351840880
- Produktnummer: 33681451
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 152'832 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Professor R. John Brockmann has been a member of the English Department, Concentration in Business and Technical Writing, University of Delaware, for 20 years. He received the Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching technical communication from the Society for Technical Communication in 2003. He was elected a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication in 1995, and received the Joseph T. Rigo Award, 1986 from the Association of Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group for Documentation of Computers (ACM SIGDOC), for his significant contributions to the knowledge and understanding of software technical writing.
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