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Technical communication

an ethos in technical writing that treats efficiency and technical success as the highest good, which can strip moral judgment from documents.

In technical communication, ethic of expediency refers to an ethos in technical writing that treats efficiency and technical success as the highest good, which can strip moral judgment from documents. This meaning comes from Katz (1992) in College English.[1]

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Katz, S. B. (1992). The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust. College English, 54(3), 255-275. https://doi.org/10.58680/ce19929392

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