By Dorothy A. Winsor
Writing strength examines the best way that texts, wisdom, and hierarchy generate and aid each other inside a for-profit company. by way of encouraging us to work out texts and writing as robust operators within the company global, this publication provides a case examine concerned with how one engineering association makes use of texts to create and preserve its wisdom and gear constitution. in line with over 5 years of observations, the booklet describes the co-generation of power/knowledge/text from a number of issues of view, together with that of managers, engineers, interns, and blue-collar staff. those teams of individuals use texts to construct wisdom inside of their very own parts and determine keep an eye on over their paintings whilst it really is handed alongside to the opposite teams. making use of Bourdieu’s suggestion that individuals own other forms of “capital” that may be switched over to each other below the precise conditions, the e-book demonstrates that textual content is likely one of the significant ways in which this conversion of capital happens, and is therefore one of many significant ways in which energy and data are generated and accumulated.
Dorothy A. Winsor is Professor of English at Iowa kingdom college. She is the writer of Writing Like an Engineer: A Rhetorical Education.
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