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Subject:Re: History of Tech Writing From:Dianne K Phelan <Dianne_K_Phelan -at- CCM -dot- RR -dot- INTEL -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 15 Jan 1998 09:35:00 PST
Deborah Turton asked about books on technical writing history.
The latest Baywood catalog (publishers of the Journal of Technical
Writing and Communication) lists The Emergence of a Tradition: Technical
Writing in the English Renaissance 1475 - 1640, by Elizabeth Tebeaux,
ISBN: 0-89503-175-2, Price $44.95 + $4.00 p/h. Info is at: http://Literary.COM/baywood/pages/ETTW/index.html
--Dianne Phelan
dianne_phelan -at- ccm -dot- intel -dot- com
I speak for myself, not for Intel.
