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A Response To Mohan Limaye, Barbara Couture
A Response To Mohan Limaye, Barbara Couture
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Mohan Limaye presents two important concerns in his insightful response to my article [“Categorizing Professional Discourse: Engineering, Administrative, and Technical/Professional Writing,” Journal of Business and Technical Communication 6:1 (January 1992), pp. 5–37]. I wish to comment on these points and also to submit a correction to the text of the article.
Categorizing Professional Discourse: Engineering, Administrative, And Technical/Professional Writing, Barbara Couture
Categorizing Professional Discourse: Engineering, Administrative, And Technical/Professional Writing, Barbara Couture
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Rhetorical categories can and should be developed by scholars of professional writing to identify how values held within professions constrain the ways discourse is interpreted in organizational settings. Empirical research (conducted by the author and others), discourse theory, and pedagogical practice in professional writing strongly suggest that at least three categories of professional writing exist: engineering, administrative, and technical/professional writing. The author demonstrates this claim and distinguishes the characteristics of these three categories. Engineering writing is shown to respond to professional values of scientific objectivity and professional judgment as well as to corporate interests. Administrative writing reflects the locus of …