Is Technical Communication "Literature"? Current Writing Scholarship and Vico's Cycles of Knowledge
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Iowa State Journal of Business and Technical Communication
- Vol. 1 (1) , 48-67
- https://doi.org/10.1177/105065198700100105
Abstract
Three premises of the humanities and writing scholarship—1. that relation ships between humanitieslarts and science/technology are cyclical; 2. that a discourse continuum is a more useful way to analyze prose than a discourse taxonomy; 3. that context creates meaning—when related to the theory of knowledge in Vico's New Science (1744), enable us to view technical writing as a medium of Art and Science, and as a human activity engaging both the cognitive self and its interpretive communities.Keywords
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