Read and answer the context:The Paradis article allows some very practical assembly of several concepts weve studied so far – the role of the technical writer, legality, genre, ethics, and technology. The endnotes describe some of the origins of the studgun, which may suggest it is not inherently a construction technology… but the question that hovers around this article for me is who is responsible?Mirels piece constitutes an argument for a rhetorical understanding and pedagogy of data reports – no surprise, again, given our previous readings. I wonder – is there a problem in technical communication that cannot be blithely answered by asking for a more rhetorical-critical-contextual understanding of documents, data, and the people assembling and composing them?
