TY - JOUR
T1 - Representation in Engineering Practice
T2 - A Case Study of Framing in a Student Design Group
AU - Weedon, J. Scott
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.
PY - 2017/10/2
Y1 - 2017/10/2
N2 - This article presents a case study using ethnographic and visual methods to investigate the framing activity of engineering students. Findings suggest students use the rhetorical figure of hypotyposis to produce the vivid images needed to frame engineering constraints. Data reveal students multimodally inducing collaboration between group members to construct images as ways to configure engineering constraints. The author argues for the usefulness of hypotyposis for understanding the framing of engineers, technical communicators, and other designers.
AB - This article presents a case study using ethnographic and visual methods to investigate the framing activity of engineering students. Findings suggest students use the rhetorical figure of hypotyposis to produce the vivid images needed to frame engineering constraints. Data reveal students multimodally inducing collaboration between group members to construct images as ways to configure engineering constraints. The author argues for the usefulness of hypotyposis for understanding the framing of engineers, technical communicators, and other designers.
KW - Engineering communication
KW - ethnography
KW - rhetoric of technology
KW - rhetorical theory
KW - visual rhetoric
KW - visualization techniques
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85031090245&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10572252.2017.1382258
DO - 10.1080/10572252.2017.1382258
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85031090245
SN - 1057-2252
VL - 26
SP - 361
EP - 378
JO - Technical Communication Quarterly
JF - Technical Communication Quarterly
IS - 4
ER -