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From Deliberation to Responsibility: Ethics, Invention, and Bonhoeffer in Technical Communication

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ABSTRACT To make technical communication scholarship more reflective of the complexity of work done by such communicators, a new concept that marries recent parallel turns to ethics and invention is… Click to show full abstract

ABSTRACT To make technical communication scholarship more reflective of the complexity of work done by such communicators, a new concept that marries recent parallel turns to ethics and invention is needed. German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a stranger to the field, offers such a concept: responsibility. It covers more explanatory ground than the most cited of ethical concepts, deliberation, and most importantly, centers ethics and invention squarely within the technical communicator’s relationship to language.

Keywords: deliberation; technical communication; ethics invention; responsibility

Journal Title: Technical Communication Quarterly
Year Published: 2017

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