Table of Contents

Foreword - Charles Bazerman
PART ONE: HISTORY, THEORY AND RESEARCH
Overviews
The Social Perspective and Professional Communication - Charlotte Thralls and Nancy Roundy Blyler
Diversity and Directions in Research
Rhetoric Unbound - Bruce Herzberg
Discourse, Community and Knowledge
Interpretations
Ideology and the Map - Ben F Barton and Marthalee S Barton
Toward a Postmodern Visual Design Practice
Formalism, Social Construction and the Problem of Interpretive Authority - Thomas Kent
Generic Constraints and Expressive Motives - Joseph J Comprone
Rhetorical Perspectives on Textual Dialogues
You Are What You Cite - Carol Berkenkotter and Thomas N Huckin
Novelty and Intertextuality in a Biologist's Experimental Article
The Role of Law, Policy and Ethics in Corporate Composing - James E Porter
Toward a Practical Ethics for Professional Writing
Conflict in Collaborative Decision-Making - Rebecca E Burnett
Validity and Reliability as Social Constructions - Janice M Lauer and Patricia Sullivan
PART TWO: PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE
Overviews
Collaboration and Conversation in Learning Communities - Jone Rymer
The Discipline and the Classroom
Postmodern Practice - Richard C Freed
Perspectives and Prospects
Interpretations
Gender Studies - Mary M Lay
Implications for the Professional Communication Classroom
The Group Writing Task - Meg Morgan
A Schema for Collaborative Assignment Making
Viewing Functional Pictures in Context - Charles Kostelnick