read “A Humanistic Rationale For Technical Writing” and post to the forum. This is a short piece, but it is quite challenging, and something I’ve not really exposed you to as of yet. My hope was to share with you some of the academic discourse surrounding te

I’m working on a english question and need a sample draft to help me learn.

 read “A Humanistic Rationale For Technical Writing” and post to the forum. This is a short piece, but it is quite challenging, and something I’ve not really exposed you to as of yet. My hope was to share with you some of the academic discourse surrounding technical writing, and give you the opportunity to reflect upon what we’ve discussed within the class. 

Here are some questions to consider:

What does it mean to teach students how to conform to workplace conventions? When we teach technical writing, are we encouraging students to reproduce the cultural and institutional power structures which we actually would prefer students would question and perhaps challenge in the workplace? 

Beyond these deeper philosophical questions, you might just offer your general understandings of the article and how it applies to what we’ve discussed in the course. Why does Miller make a distinction between learning skills and understanding? How does writing a form of participating in a community? Why does this make technical writing a powerful tool for discourse?