The Origins of the Art and Practice of Professional Writing
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The Origins of the Art and Practice of Professional Writing

The Written Word as a Tool for Social Justice Then and Now

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The Origins of the Art and Practice of Professional Writing

The Written Word as a Tool for Social Justice Then and Now

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The Origins of the Art and Practice of Professional Writing addresses the classic divide in teaching written skills between rhetoric/composition and technical/professional communication (TPC). It explores a body of texts that were created earlier than any yet identified by either field: ancient Mesopotamian documents, produced in the eighth century BCE. The book debunks two myths: it shows that rhetoric was practiced consciously and taught systematically long before the Greek civilization existed; and because a large swathe of the public, while not fully literate, had access to the services of scribes, not just men, but women, merchants, and even slaves utilized writing as a tool for social justice. From their earliest writings, humans consciously applied principles of persuasion to the documents that they produced. Rather than being two distinct fields, rhetoric and professional communication are intertwined in their histories.

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Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9781438497303
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Communication Studies
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Preface
  8. Prologue
  9. Introduction: Expanding the History and Purpose of Technical Communication
  10. Chapter 1 Cylinder Seals: Written Communication’s First Technological Breakthrough
  11. Chapter 2 Ancient Technical Manuals and Letters: The Origins of Instructional Writing
  12. Chapter 3 Finding Our Missing Pieces: Women Technical Writers in Ancient Mesopotamia
  13. Chapter 4 Decentering the History of the Writing Center: A Case for the Mesopotamian Edubba as an Early Writing Center
  14. Chapter 5 Mythos, Nomos, Logos: Evidence of Sophistic Reasoning before the Sophists
  15. Chapter 6 Myth, Magic, and Medicine: Medical Writing in Ancient Mesopotamia
  16. Chapter 7 Writing as Social Justice
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. Back Cover