Scientific and Technical Communication: Theory, Practice, and Policy (Digital Edition)
http://www.faculty.english.vt.edu/Collier/stc/

Collier, James H. and David M. Toomey
Virginia Tech
1997

Abstract:

Scientific and technical communication can be defined as a process of gathering, organizing, presenting and refining information. It is also a process of persuasion which often appeals to objectivity to convince an audience. Finally, it is a process inevitably shaped by its contexts, and which is improved when it recognizes its contexts.