This paper explores the unique role of the rewriter of institutional texts within the cultural theory of texts. The project employs ideas and theories from the fields of linguistic philosophy, natural selection and evolution, and contemporary rhetoric to discuss different qualities of institutionalized texts as well as the interactions between author and text. Three editions of the Boy Scout Handbook are used as examples of institutional texts.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Ohlson, Jonathan Fuller

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 03D014M

Advisor

• Trimbur, John

Year

• 2003

Date created

• 2003-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Scientific and Professional Communication, Technical

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved