Spurious Coin

Spurious CoinOffers a narrative history of technical writing as a cultural practice and the system of scientific knowledge it controls. Spurious Coin constructs a cultural history of technical writing in the United States and the system of scientific knowledge and power it controls. Embedded in this history are tensions between scientific and liberal arts knowledge making that render technical writing both the genuine and counterfeit coin of scientific knowledge

providing a rounded view of trials conducted according to different procedures within contrasting legal systems

This self-contained book is ideal for study at graduate and advanced levels

the collection contains writings by both established writers

and other animal factors

classic prints

literary references

The former school stresses the inexpressible ultimate

not just differently than others

and for several centuries afterward

Sartwell has relentlessly insisted on an ethos rooted in unadorned honesty with oneself and a healthy skepticism of others

and the ideal of objectivity which conquered that doubt

identifying gaps in R&D value chains