• DocumentCode
    1163363
  • Title

    Exploring quality: what Robert Pirsig´s `Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance can teach us about technical communication

  • Author

    Jones, Daniel R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of English, Central Florida Univ., FL, USA
  • Volume
    32
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1989
  • fDate
    9/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    154
  • Lastpage
    158
  • Abstract
    The author argues that the major reason why Robert Pirsig´s `Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance´, first published in 1974, continues to attract so much interest lies in the way Pirsig challenges our values. Pirsig shows that we have lost our understanding of quality, and he explores how we can restore a sense of quality to our lives. The author suggests that technical communication could benefit from Pirsig´s idea
  • Keywords
    economic and sociologic effects; technical presentation; Zen Buddhism; quality; technical communication; Art; Autobiographies; Books; Chaos; Ear; Motorcycles; Professional communication; Seminars; Subspace constraints; Writing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0361-1434
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/47.31622
  • Filename
    31622
    • Link To Document
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