http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Articles/TC/Community-Building/Rhetoric A listing of the most recently indexed works about Articles and TC and Community Building and Rhetoric in the field of technical communication. en-us Copyright (c) 2005-10 by the EServer. All rights reserved. tclib-editorial@eserver.org (TC Library Editorial Board) webmaster@eserver.org (Geoffrey Sauer) http://tc.eserver.org/images/newlogo.gif http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Articles/TC/Community-Building/Rhetoric http://tc.eserver.org/29240.html http://tc.eserver.org/29240.html 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.