Busting the Myth of the Communication Metaphor

Busting the Myth of the Communication MetaphorTraces the linguistic, rhetorical, historical, cultural, and economic origins of our most basic beliefs and practices for successful technical writing to initiate a reckoning about who they serve and who they harm. Busting the Myth of the Communication Metaphor is a transdisciplinary approach to making visible and explaining the multiple origins of why our most basic beliefs about what makes scientific and technical writing successful are wrong,

along with the increasing sophistication of experimental techniques

Chronicles the author's personal and professional journey within the American educational system

the book integrates traditional narratives of disenchantment and re-enchantment

Both sides recall the Nakba (catastrophe)

In Part II

drawing primarily upon the work of Alexis de Tocqueville

The current political climate has generated uncertainty among citizens

Ahead of its time and largely unrecognized upon publication

It also argues that the legitimization of power should be thought of in terms of a moral order that in turn defines the societal boundaries of different symbolic/moral universes

It focuses on the relationship between dancing and national identity construction

film and architecture

where some of the same issues linger