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When viewed through a political lens, the act of defining terms in natural language arguably transforms knowledge into values. This unique volume explores how corporate, military, academic, and professional values shaped efforts to define computer terminology and establish an information engineering profession as a precursor to what would become computer science.

The goal of this book is to introduce students and practicing engineers to all the components of writing in the workplace. Readers will learn how considerations of audience and purpose govern the structure of their documents. The handbook is broken up into two sections: Writing in Engineering Organizations and What Can You Do With Writing? The first section helps readers approach their writing in a logical and persuasive way as well as analyze their purpose for writing. The second section demonstrates how to distinguish rhetorical situations and the generic forms to inform, train,...