The Paradise
Read and answer the context: The Paradis article allows some very practical assembly of several concepts we’ve studied so far – the role of the technical writer, legality, genre, ethics, and technology.
The endnotes describe some of the origins of the stun gun, which may suggest it is not inherently a construction technology… but the question that hovers around this article for me is “who is responsible?
Mirel’s piece constitutes an argument for a rhetorical understanding and pedagogy of data reports – no surprise, again, given our previous readings.
I wonder – is there a problem in technical communication that cannot be blithely answered by asking for a more rhetorical-critical-contextual understanding of documents, data, and the people assembling and composing them?