Winner of the 2004 Distinguished Publication on Business Communication presented by the Association of Business Communication Writing Power examines the way that texts knowledge and hierarchy generate and support one another within a for profit corporation By encouraging us to see texts and writing as powerful operators in the corporate world this book presents a case study focused on how one engineering organization uses texts to create and maintain its knowledge and power structure Based on over five years of observations the book describes the co generation of power knowledge text from several points of view including that of managers engineers interns and blue collar workers These groups of people use texts to build knowledge within their own areas and establish control over their work when it is passed along to the other groups Employing Bourdieu s notion that people possess different kinds of capital that can be converted to one another under the right circumstances the book demonstrates that text is one of the major ways that this conversion of capital takes place and is thus one of the major ways that power and knowledge are generated and accumulated

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