Bernadette Longo is Assistant Professor of English at Clemson University.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction-Transforming Language into Science

ix

What Is Science? What Is Technology?

xi

Minting the Coin of Scientific Knowledge

xii

How Credit for Scientific Knowledge Is Appraised

1

(20)

Who Gets Credit?

2

(1)

What Research Does Not See

3

(3)

Looking at Technical Writing Through a Cultural Study Frame

6

(6)

Putting Technical Writing Practices in Cultural Contexts

12

(7)

Issues in Technical Writing Raised Through Cultural Study

19

(2)

Technical Writing as the Lingua Franca in a Golden Age of Engineering

21

(23)

What Kind of Knowledge Gets Deposited in Textbooks?

23

(7)

The Utility of Experiential Knowledge

30

(4)

The Development of Public Science

34

(6)

Reforming Scholasticism

40

(4)

The Rise of Experiential Knowledge and Technical Education

44

(18)

John Locke, Language, Property Rights, and Coinage

48

(7)

Defending Science and Technical Education

55

(7)

Contributing to a General Fund of Scientific Knowledge

62

(16)

Knowledge in Textbooks

70

(6)

Technical Writing Practices in Power and Knowledge Systems

76

(2)

Engineering Specialized Social Organizations

78

(22)

Engineering as an Application of Pure Scientific Knowledge

83

(2)

Designing Systematic Adminstration for Canals and Railroads

85

(3)

Engineers Become Managers in Complex Social Organizations

88

(6)

Engineering Management Systems

94

(6)

Technical Writing as Management System Control

100

(22)

Natural and Military Efficiency

104

(5)

New Communication Technologies Support Systematized Management

109

(5)

Technical Writing Textbook Codifies Systematized Management

114

(8)

Technical Writers Mint Counterfeit Scientific Knowledge: Strained Relations between Technical Writers and Engineers

122

(40)

Office Management Becomes a Specialized Field

126

(9)

The Practicality of Engineering in Tension with the Enjoyment of Literature

135

(9)

Technical Writing Moves from Engineering to English

144

(9)

English Embraces Science

153

(9)

Whose Knowledge Is Powerful?

162

(7)

Toward a Humanistic Technical Writing

164

(5)

Notes

169

(10)

References

179

(16)

Index

195

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