Three premises of the humanities and writing scholarship—1. that relation
ships between humanitieslarts and science/technology are cyclical; 2. that a
discourse continuum is a more useful way to analyze prose than a discourse
taxonomy; 3. that context creates meaning—when related to the theory of
knowledge in Vico's New Science (1744), enable us to view technical writing
as a medium of Art and Science, and as a human activity engaging both the
cognitive self and its interpretive communities.
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