Routledge Studies in Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Culture
About the Book Series
This series promotes innovative, interdisciplinary research in the theory and practice of technical communication, broadly conceived as including business, scientific, and health communication. Technical communication has an extensive impact on our world and our lives, yet the venues for long-format research in the field are few. This series serves as an outlet for scholars engaged with the theoretical, practical, rhetorical, and cultural implications of this burgeoning field. The editors welcome proposals for book-length studies and edited collections involving qualitative and quantitative research and theoretical inquiry into technical communication and associated fields and topics, including user-centered design; information design; intercultural communication; risk communication; new media; social media; visual communication and rhetoric; disability/accessibility issues; communication ethics; health communication; applied rhetoric; and the history and current practice of technical, business, and scientific communication.
The series is proud to congratulate Ehren Pflugfelder on winning the 2018 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication for the book Communicating Technology and Mobility: A Material Rhetoric for Persuasive Transportation!
Humanizing Visual Design: The Rhetoric of Human Forms in Practical Communication
1st Edition
By Charles Kostelnick
December 18, 2020
This book analyzes the role that human forms play in visualizing practical information and in making that information understandable, accessible, inviting, and meaningful to readers—in short, "humanizing" it.Although human figures have long been deployed in practical communication, their uses in ...
Scientific Communication: Practices, Theories, and Pedagogies
1st Edition
Edited
By Han Yu, Kathryn M. Northcut
September 30, 2020
This book addresses the roles and challenges of people who communicate science, who work with scientists, and who teach STEM majors how to write. In terms of practice and theory, chapters address themes encountered by scientists and communicators, including ethical challenges, visual displays, and ...
Posthuman Praxis in Technical Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Kristen R. Moore, Daniel P. Richards
December 17, 2019
This collection, aimed at scholars, teachers, and practitioners in technical communication, focuses on the praxis-based connections between technical communication and theoretical movements that have emerged in the past several decades, namely new materialism and posthumanism. It provides a much ...
Rhetoric and Communication Perspectives on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault: Policy and Protocol Through Discourse
1st Edition
By Amy D. Propen, Mary Schuster
December 17, 2019
This book brings rhetorical, legal, and professional communication perspectives to the discourse surrounding policy-making efforts within the United States around two types of violent crimes against women: domestic violence and sexual assault. The authors propose that such analysis adds to our ...
Writing Postindustrial Places: Technoculture amid the Cornfields
1st Edition
By Michael J. Salvo
December 12, 2019
Exploring the relationship between postindustrial writing and developments in energy production, manufacturing, and agriculture, Michael J. Salvo shows how technological and industrial innovation relies on communicative and organizational suppleness. Through representative case studies, Salvo ...
Commonplaces of Scientific Evidence in Environmental Discourses
1st Edition
By Denise Tillery
December 10, 2019
This book focuses on the uses of scientific evidence within three types of environmental discourses: popular nonfiction books about the environment; traditional and social media texts created by a grassroots environmental group; and a set of data displays that make arguments about global warming in...
The Neuroscience of Multimodal Persuasive Messages: Persuading the Brain
1st Edition
By Dirk Remley
December 10, 2019
In this book, Dirk Remley applies his model of integrating multimodal rhetorical theory and multi-sensory neural processing theory pertaining to cognition and learning to multimodal persuasive messages. Using existing theories from multimodal rhetoric and specific findings from neurobiological ...
Topic-Driven Environmental Rhetoric
1st Edition
Edited
By Derek G. Ross
December 10, 2019
Common topics and commonplaces help develop arguments and shape understanding. When used in argumentation, they may help interested parties more effectively communicate valuable information. The purpose of this edited collection on topics of environmental rhetoric is to fill gaps in scholarship ...
Communicating Mobility and Technology: A Material Rhetoric for Persuasive Transportation
1st Edition
By Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder
June 28, 2018
Winner of the 2018 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Book in Technical or Scientific CommunicationResponding to the effects of human mobility and crises such as depleting oil supplies, Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder turns specifically to automobility, a term used ...
Visible Numbers: Essays on the History of Statistical Graphics
1st Edition
Edited
By Miles A. Kimball, Charles Kostelnick
December 22, 2017
Bringing together scholars from around the world, this collection examines many of the historical developments in making data visible through charts, graphs, thematic maps, and now interactive displays. Today, we are used to seeing data portrayed in a dizzying array of graphic forms. Virtually any...
Computer Games and Technical Communication: Critical Methods and Applications at the Intersection
1st Edition
By Jennifer deWinter, Ryan M. Moeller
February 07, 2017
Taking as its point of departure the fundamental observation that games are both technical and symbolic, this collection investigates the multiple intersections between the study of computer games and the discipline of technical and professional writing. Divided into five parts, Computer Games and ...