Document (#18454)

Author

Cooper, M.M.

Title

¬The postmodern space of operator's manuals

Source

Technical communication quarterly. 5(1996) no.4, S.386-410

Year

1996

Abstract

Most operator's manuals are examples of failed rhetoric: discourse that fails to inform, to persuade, or even to be read. By moving from a tacit reliance on a modernist model of communication that emphasizes the transfer of information to a post-modern model that emphasizes the communication of understanding and by applying 2 principles of negotiating understanding, technical writers can construct manuals that are more likely to succeed rhetorically and legally

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