This volume examines rhetorical practices relating to situations of risk, and how documents and communication succeed or fail in these contexts. For scholars in technical communication, rhetoric, and related areas.

Contents: Editor's Introduction. Introduction: The Rhetoric of Risk. Part I: The Problem of Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments. Regulating Hazardous Environments: The Problem of Documentation. Moments of Transformation: The Cycle of Technical Documentation in Large Regulatory Industries. Acknowledging Uncertainty: Rethinking Rhetoric in a Hazardous Environment. Part II: Moments of Transformation. Reconstructing Experience: The Rhetorical Interface Between Agencies and Experience. Learning From Experience: Enlarging the Agency's Perspective in Training and Instruction. Warrants for Judgment: The Textual Representation of Embodied Sensory Experience. Part III : Documenting Experience. Embodied Experience: Representing Risk in Speech and Gesture. Manual Communication: The Negotiation of Meaning Embodied in Gesture. Part IV: Transforming Experience. Capturing Experience: The Moment of Transformation. Conclusion: The Last Canary?