2006
DOI: 10.1207/s15427625tcq1501_6
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Cars, Culture, and Tactical Technical Communication

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“…Kimball (2006) (p. 72) argues that practices can "operate in material and in linguistic and rhetorical terms, " which means that both obser vations of behaviors and talk about those behaviors should be considered in analysis. The intermingling of recreators' bodies and behaviors with the material world around them and the discourse about their experiences and expectations for them selves and others perpetuate a perception of outdoor recreation as inherently risky.…”
Section: Contrived Making Do As Rhetorical Practice In Outdoor Recreamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Kimball (2006) (p. 72) argues that practices can "operate in material and in linguistic and rhetorical terms, " which means that both obser vations of behaviors and talk about those behaviors should be considered in analysis. The intermingling of recreators' bodies and behaviors with the material world around them and the discourse about their experiences and expectations for them selves and others perpetuate a perception of outdoor recreation as inherently risky.…”
Section: Contrived Making Do As Rhetorical Practice In Outdoor Recreamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This change may still result in motivated readers, only now they identify with the real author (as depicted in the text) rather than the ideal reader. Kimball's (2006) analysis of independently created automotive manuals explored these kinds of personal narratives. These manuals are examples of what he called, following de Certeau's (1984) language, ''tactical narratives.''…”
Section: Narrative and Procedural Discoursementioning
confidence: 99%
“…In determining how to engage with the community of Instructables.com and what purposes they might have for participating in the site, students engage with the aspects of ''practical wisdom'' that Miller advocated. Lastly, asking students to write for Web 2.0 documentation sites like Instructables.com better prepares them for the contemporary rhetorical situation that Selber (2010) and Kimball (2006) have identified, when technical communication reaches an increasing number of people outside of traditional corporate or institutional channels.…”
Section: Implications For Teachingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…(See Bowdon's [2004] discussion of technical communication for a community organization's HIV-prevention study; Grabill's [2007] work on how infrastructures [global] are created locally through the everyday technological practices of community members' interactions with information technology; Kimball's [2006] study of people who commune through technical texts about cars using ''extra-institutional documentation'' that ''can help us understand not only our own field, but also the relationship between technology, discourse, and people's lives'' [p. 84]; Koerber's [2006] examination of rhetorical agency of mothers and breastfeeding advocates through resistance; Scott's [2003] study of the rhetoric of HIV testing; and Simmons's [2007] demonstration of the tactical public adoption of technical communication in her case study of citizens challenging chemical weapons disposal.) The groundwork that these researchers establish to consider local practices of technical communication outside of workplaces, as Grabill (2007) stated, addresses the ''incomplete maps of what people actually do with writing and technologies in their day-to-day lives'' (p. 3).…”
Section: Chains Of Reception: a Framework For User-centered Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%