The Rhetoric of Risk: Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments

by Beverly Sauer

Book Overview

The crash of an Amtrak train near Baltimore, the collapse of the Hyatt hotel in Kansas City, the incident at Three Mile Island, and other large-scale technological disasters have provided powerful examples of the ways that communication practices influence the events and decisions that precipitate a disaster. These examples have raised ethical questions about the responsibility of writers within agencies, epistemological questions about the nature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805836861
• ISBN13: 9780805836868
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"