What's Civic About Technical Communication? Technical Communication and the Rhetoric of 'Community'
http://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15427625tcq1303_2
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Ornatowski, Cezar M. and Linn K. Bekins
Technical Communication Quarterly
2004

Abstract:

Although the concept of community has been advanced in technical communication as a moral reference point for civic rhetorical action, this concept is typically used in romantic, redemptive, and essentializing ways. This article argues for a radical and symbolic/rhetorical view of community, regarding it a discursive construct purposefully invoked by technical writers for strategic reasons.