Call for Editor for Marketing: WAC Clearinghouse International Exchanges on the Study of Writing Series The WAC Clearinghouse International Exchanges (IE) on the Study of Writing series is seeking an...

We are thrilled to invite proposals for our special issue of Technical Communication and Social Justice (TCSJ) on the topic of Unjust “Permission Structures” in/as Technical Communication. While the process of permission structuring originates from controlling access and user roles within computer networks, this technical term has been appropriated to describe a rhetorical strategy whereby communicators use the audience's existing beliefs and values to persuade them to accept novel opinions and/or take action. Permission structures thereby aim to facilitate a change of opinion by building “a process that helps them see [a new] point of view more clearly” (Pfeiffer qtd. in Holland & Bohan, 2013). In other words, people are more likely to change their minds if the new belief is “structured” to connect to their original belief.

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