Commentary 15 References Brockmann, R. J. and Rook, F. (1989) Technical Communication and Ethics. Brockmann, R. J. (1988, 89) "A Historical Consideration of Ethics and the Technical Writer: From 1880's to the 1980's" In Proceedings of the 35th International Technical Communication Conference, Washington DC: Society for Technical Communication, 1988; reprinted In Technical Communication and Ethics, Alexandria, VA: Sodety for Technical Communication, pp. 107-114. Herndl, C.G., Fennel, B.A., and Miller, C.R. (1991) Understanding Failures in Organizational Discourse. In C. Bazerman and J. Paradis (Eds.), Textual Dynamics of the Professions (pp. 279-305). Madison, Wh University of Wisconsin Press. The Rhetoric of Ethics Compromised by Michael Davis Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL 60616 The title of Gregory Clark's article identifies it as a contribution to the field of technical communications ethics. Though I have written on business and professional ethics, including technical communications between engineers and managers, I know little about the ethics of technical communicators. My comments here are therefore necessarily those of an outsider, someone unaware of much that specialists in technical communications take for granted. I am bound to stumble. But perhaps I can also shed revealm g
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