Reshaping Technical Communication

Reshaping Technical Communication
Author: Barbara Mirel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2002-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135660611

This collection offers a broad examination of technical communication as a discipline and a profession, and provides insights on its future directions. Intended for students, scholars, and practitioners in technical communication and education.

Reshaping Technical Communication

Reshaping Technical Communication
Author: Barbara Mirel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2002-06-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135660603

This anthology brings together voices from industry and academia in a call for elevating the status, identity, value, and influence of technical communicators. Editors Barbara Mirel and Rachel Spilka assert that technical communicators must depart from their traditional roles, moving instead in a more influential and expansive direction. To help readers explore the possibilities, contributions from innovative thinkers and leaders in technical communication propose ways to redefine the field's identity and purposes and to expand the parameters of its work. The chapters included here all point toward new directions for greater growth and influence of the field. Contributors depart from traditional ideas and solutions and discuss new and in some cases radical points, provoking further thought and discussion. Its exploration of fresh territory uncovers new research topics and directions, and provides an examination of both internal, industry-academia relationships and external relationships between technical communicators and other professionals. In its entirety, this collection represents an inclusive vision for the future, targeting such wide-ranging issues as creating effective professional organizations, disseminating research to diverse audiences, transitioning to more influential job roles, exerting leadership in usability, and creating hybrid identities and collaborative programs between industry and academic to support them. The diverse voices from industry and academia will inspire readers to think differently about the discipline's identity and direction, and to build on the ideas they find herein to effect change within their own spheres. As required reading for academics and professionals in technical communication, this collection is a critical step in reshaping and reinvigorating the technical communication field to ensure its survival and growth in the 21st century.

Reshaping Communications

Reshaping Communications
Author: Paschal Preston
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2001-03-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780803985636

Thirty years ago, one writer complained that 'to admire technology is all out of fashion'. Today excited claims are made for the impact that these technologies are having on social, political and economic life. But how are we to assess these claims? This book critically interrogates many of the prevailing ideas offers a fresh perspective on this new`digital age'. Reshaping Communications: · Provides an alternative and more grounded account of the complex interplay between new technology and information structures and changes in society · Illuminates the fundamental continuities as well as changes in socioeconomic and political processes · Draws on an interdisciplinary perspective and

Digital Literacy for Technical Communication

Digital Literacy for Technical Communication
Author: Rachel Spilka
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 573
Release: 2009-12-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135236755

Digital Literacy for Technical Communication helps technical communicators make better sense of technology’s impact on their work, so they can identify new ways to adapt, adjust, and evolve, fulfilling their own professional potential. This collection is comprised of three sections, each designed to explore answers to these questions: How has technical communication work changed in response to the current (digital) writing environment? What is important, foundational knowledge in our field that all technical communicators need to learn? How can we revise past theories or develop new ones to better understand how technology has transformed our work? Bringing together highly-regarded specialists in digital literacy, this anthology will serve as an indispensible resource for scholars, students, and practitioners. It illuminates technology’s impact on their work and prepares them to respond to the constant changes and challenges in the new digital universe.

Civic Engagement and Technical Communication

Civic Engagement and Technical Communication
Author: James M. Dubinsky
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2023-04-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000948048

This special issue on civic engagement and technical communication focuses on the ways educators can help students become actively engaged members of society, particularly a "rhetorical democracy." The first essay examines the concept of community as a locus for civic engagement and question some of the definitions of community seen embedded in current pedagogical practices. The next article seeks to shape understanding of practice. The tension of developing students' civic awareness and engagement is the topic of the third paper. The fourth article helps students gain skills and organization awareness and improves the perceived relevance of the work. The final two essays approach the issue of civic engagement from slightly different angles--one examining the role of teacher as both rhetor and instructor and the other looking to the past for possible solutions for the future. By continuing the conversation about the relationship between technical communication and the public good and focusing specifically on pedagogical strategies and their theoretical and historical underpinnings, the authors in this special issue clarify roles that technical communication and technical communicators play in civil society, as well as ways curricula can be shaped to prepare students to fill those roles.

A Research Primer for Technical Communication

A Research Primer for Technical Communication
Author: George F Hayhoe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2009-03-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1135595518

This practical volume provides a thorough introduction to conducting and critically reading research in technical communication, complete with exemplars of research articles for study. Offering a solid grounding in the research underpinnings of the technical communication field, this resource has been developed for use in master’s level and upper-division undergraduate research methods courses in technical and professional communication.

Business and Technical Communication

Business and Technical Communication
Author: Debra L. Hull
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1987
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780810819719

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Role of Attitudes in Teaching Technical Communication:A Study of Students,Faculty,and Administrators in a Northwest Chinese University(态度研究与技术传播)

Role of Attitudes in Teaching Technical Communication:A Study of Students,Faculty,and Administrators in a Northwest Chinese University(态度研究与技术传播)
Author: 王西玲(Xiling Wang)
Publisher: 社会科学文献出版社
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 7509790344

該博士論文是一項針對中國學生、教師、以及教學管理人員對在中國高校開設“英語技術傳播(寫作)”課程主要問題所持態度的定量研究。此項研究旨在調查在評定教授“技術傳播(寫作)”和該課程及相關專業設置可行性中研究物件態度所起的作用。作者通過對中國西北地方一所高校中三組人員(共1197人)的現場調查,旨在回答以下兩個研究問題: 1. 態度調查法是否有助於“英語技術傳播(寫作)”課程可行性研究?如果答案是肯定的,應如何實用態度調查法確定該課程和相關專業的設計? 2. 此項研究中使用的態度調查法可否成為一種有效的、可供效仿的概括性課程和專業規劃手段?

Assessment in Technical and Professional Communication

Assessment in Technical and Professional Communication
Author: Margaret Hundleby
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1351845861

A collection of essays that focuses on both how and why assessment serves as a key element in the teaching and practice of technical and professional communication. It offers teachers, students, scholars, and practitioners evidence of the increasingly valuable role of assessment in the field, as it supports and enriches our thinking and practice.