Today’s Plan:
- Miller’s Humanism
- Project 2 Teams
Miller’s Humanism
My initial questions:
- What is positivism? Why is it a problem for technical writing? What does Miller identify as the most problematic dimension of a non-rhetorical approach to scientific communication?
- Miller identifies 4 problems for technical writing pedagogy that stem from the positivist tradition. How do we avoid them?
- How does Miller–writing in 1979–describe the epistemology that is replacing positivism?
- What does it mean to teach technical writing from a communalist perspective? Why might some students reject a communalist approach to teaching writing?
Project 2 Teams
We will spend most of our time today (and in the next three weeks) working in this document, the spring 2021 Project Workspace.
Homework
Your homework for the next couple weeks is listed in the tables in that document above. Submit any materials marked as a Deliverable to Canvas (there is not a deliverable for every class session).
