Worlds of writing : teaching and learning in discourse communities of work / edited by Carolyn B. Matalene.

Part I. Comparing worlds : academic and nonacademic writers and writing -- Coming to terms with different standards of excellence for written communication / Kristin R. Woolever -- A case study of one adult writing in academic and nonacademic discourse communities / Stephen Doheny-Farina -- Process and genre / Mary Ann Eiler -- From the garret to the fishbowl : thoughts on the transition from literary to technical writing / William E. Rivers -- Part II. Integrating worlds : academic instruction for nonacademic work -- Adaptation : business writing as catalyst in a liberal arts curriculum / Janette S. Lewis -- Rhetoric and the discourse of technology / Theresa Enos -- Part III. Understanding cultures : writers as agents of conservation and change -- Writers in organizations and how they learn the image : theory, research, and implications / Jean Ann Lutz -- The text and the trade association : a story of documents at work / Elisabeth M. Alford -- The file cabinet has a sex life : insights of a professional writing consultant / Lee Clark Johns -- Writing in the military : a different mission / Nancy G. Wilds -- Part IV. Writing in the world of industry -- Storyboarding an industrial proposal : a case study of teaching and producing writing / Muriel Zimmerman and Hugh Marsh -- Written communication : the industrial context / J.C. Mathas -- The discourse communities and group writing practices of management students / Janis Forman -- Part V. Writing in the world of journalism -- Don't profess : coach / Donald M. Murray -- A writing teacher in the newsroom / Carolyn B. Matalene -- Part VI. Writing in the world of finance -- Teaching writing to C.P.A.'s - or anyone else for that matter / Dan Dieterich -- Consulting with "discursive regimes" : using personality theory to analyze and intervene in business communities / George H. Jensen -- How to appear reliable without being liable : C.P.A. writing in its rhetorical context / Aletha S. Hendrickson -- Part VII. Writing in the world of computers -- Bridging the gap : in which the author, and English major, recounts his travels in the land of the techies / Edward Gold -- Writing for an on line age : the influence of electric text on writing / Philip Rubens -- Part VIII. Writing in the world of law -- In the law the text is king / Teresa Godwin Phelps -- To English professors : on what to do with a lawyer / John Warnock -- Rhetoric and Bricolage : theory and its limits in legal and other sorts of discourse / James C. Raymond.

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