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Ethics in Technical Communication (Part of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication)

By Paul M. Dombrowski, Sam Dragga

ISBN-10: 0-205-27462-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-205-27462-8What's this?

Published by Longman

© 2000

Pub. Date: Nov 11, 1999

Format: Paper

Table of Contents

Most chapters conclude with “Conclusion,” “Recommended Websites,” and/or “Topics for Papers and Discussion.”

I.THEORY AND HISTORY.

1.Nature of Ethics.

Why Study Ethics?

What Is Ethics?

Our Expectations.

Assumptions.

Perspectives.

Scope.

Organization.

2.Ethics in Rhetoric as Communication.

Limitations of History.

Ethics and Rhetoric Linked.

3.The Ethics Tradition.

Introduction.

Aristotle.

Kant.

Utilitarianism.

Feminist and Care Perspectives.

Other Views.

II.APPLICATIONS: REAL CASES.

4.Nazi Records: The Origin and Use of Information.

Organization, Dissemination, and Use of Nazi Information.

Nazi Technical Memorandum.

Graphical Images.

Ethical Appraisal.

5.Challenger Disaster.

Two Governmental Reports.

Two Crucial Shifts in Meaning.

“Smoking Gun” Memorandum.

Graphical Images.

Ethical Appraisal.

6.Tobacco and Death: When Is a Cause Not a Cause.

Cause.

Documents.

A Single Word.

Graphical Images.

Ethical Appraisal.

7.Star Wars: Hope vs. Reality.

Context.

Overview of SDI.

Congressional Office of Technology Assessment.

Congressional Hearing.

SDI Documents, Pro & Con.

Star Wars Boycott Pledge.

Patriot: Small Scale SDI.

Technical Claims about Air Operations.

Ethical Appraisal.

III.APPLICATIONS: HYPOTHETICAL CASES.

8.Ethics Exercises.

Introduction.

Case One: Laser Glitches.

Case Two: Freedom.

Case Three: Confidentiality.

Case Four: Buried Information.

Case Five: Whistleblowing.

Case Six, Government Ethics.

Appraisals, Cases 1-6.

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