From Logocentrism to Ethnocentrism: Historicizing Critiques of Writing Research.

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  • Author(s): Charney, Davida
  • Language:
    English
  • Source:
    Technical Communication Quarterly. Win 1998 7(1):9-32.
  • Publication Date:
    1998
  • Document Type:
    Information Analyses
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Evaluative
  • Additional Information
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • Source:
      24
    • Subject Terms:
      Research Methodology; Scholarship; Technical Writing; Writing Research
    • ISSN:
      1057-2252
    • Abstract:
      Traces attitude shifts toward empirical research on writing since the 1960s, in light of changes in writing research, psychology, and rhetoric of science. Suggests postmodernist denunciations of scientific methods as immoral have Romanticist overtones. Finds critiques in technical communication suggest empirical methods should not be employed. Suggests these critiques too tightly circumscribe values that may be considered humanist. (PA)
    • Publication Date:
      1998
    • Accession Number:
      EJ563776