Six Critical Moments of Rhetorical Transformation

This framework enables us to identify Six Critical Moments of Rhetorical Transformation in large regulatory industries. At these moments, writers must extract information that is presented in one rhetorical modality (oral testimony, for example) and literally change the form so that the information can be re-represented for a different audience (1) when oral testimony and embodied experience are captured in writing (2) when the information in accident reports is re-represented in statistical records (3) when statistical accounts are re-represented as arguments for particular policies (4) when policies and standards are transformed into procedures (5) when written procedures are transformed into training and (6) when training is re-represented to workers at local sites. (Chapter 2 describes the cycle in detail.)... 

Chapter 2 describes the cycle of technical documentation within large regulatory agencies. This framework allows us to identify Six Critical Moments of Rhetorical Transformation when knowledge in one modality (oral... 

This framework allows us to identify six critical moments of rhetorical transformation within the Cycle. At these moments, writers extract informa-... 

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