Code and Professional Writing

One thing to think about in my projects for 841 may how web design/authoring works into professional writing.  The avenue to answer  this question may be answered by discovering how code can be rhetorical.  

PW T&R ideas

How can I apply rhetorical, discursive analysis to professional writing/technical communication.  It may be through some sense of usability or workplace studies.  Looking at the user as the audience, it would be easy to take rhetorical theory and apply it to my research.  I have already done part of that work in my senior thesis project at Mount Union College.  So that may be an interesting place to go.    

Theory

This notion of theory of something that can be a force that causes some sense of inertia or motion and as something that can be malleable itself is quite interesting.  I am referring to the Literary Theory:  A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler.  On page three he states  "the main effects of theory is the disputing of 'common sense': common-sense views about meaning, writing, literature, experience."  Thus theory seems to go through a particular process.  In its genesis it is malleable.  It offers a conceptual mapping of the common place.  Then its life life and teachings, it is forceful, inertia inspiring.  It acts on previous conceptions of the common place or forces a new kind of reflection in a meta-discursive sense.  I can imagine Foucault seeing the prison system as panoptic system of power that balances and normalizes societal inertia.  And then he told someone about it.  Genesis to inertia.