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Subject:Re: History of Tech Writing From:Stan Dicks <w4ag -at- M1 -dot- SPRYNET -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 14 Jan 1998 20:16:13 -0500
Deborah Turton wrote:
> Hey,
> I've searched the archives, our local library, the web and I
> can't seem
> to find a book about Tech writing history. Has anyone read one or
> written one they could recommend?
>
John Brockmann at the U. of Delaware and former Chair of SIGDOC has
written a history of technical writing, _From Millwrights to Shipwrights
to the Twenty-First Century : Explorations in a History of Technical
Communication in the United States_, published by Hampton Press. The
book should be out any day now. Amazon is taking orders but not
delivering yet.
Cheers,
Stan Dicks
Rhetoric and Technical Communication
North Carolina State University
