Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0874215749 ISBN 13: 9780874215748

Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of UP Colorado, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication offers a variety of activities, projects, and approaches to energize pedagogy in technical communication and to provide a constructive critique of current practice. A practical collection, the approaches recommended here are readily adaptable to a range of technological and institutional contexts, as well as being theoretically grounded and pedagogically sound. Throughout the collection, its editors and contributors demonstrate the importance of critically engaging students through creative and innovative pedagogies. Programs in technical writing, technical communication, and/or professional communication have recently grown in enrollment as the demand among employers for formally prepared technical writers and editors has grown. In response, scholarly treatments of the subject and the teaching of technical writing are also burgeoning, and the body of research and theory being published in this field is many times larger and more accessible than it was even a decade ago. Although many theoretical and disciplinary perspectives can potentially inform technical communication teaching, administration, and curriculum development, the actual influences on the field's canonical texts have traditionally come from a rather limited range of disciplines. Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication brings together a wide range of scholars/teachers to expand the existing canon. The editors and authors in this volume suggest that, for various reasons, the field has not been as flexible or open to innovation as it needs to be. Given pervasive technological and workplace changes and changing cultural attitudes, they say, new and more dynamic pedagogies in technical communication are warranted, and they are addressing this collection to that need. Contributing authors include a number of scholars with a strong record of work in composition, technical writing, professional communication, and allied areas (e.g., Selfe, Wahlstrom, Kalmbach, Duin, Hansen), who deliver a variety of approaches that are grounded in current theory and represent pedagogical creativity and innovation.

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INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO TEACHING TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Contents

Introduction: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication Tracy Bridgeford, Karla Saari Kitalong, and Dickie Selfe.................................................................................................................................................................................................................11 The Status of Service in Learning James Dubinsky..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................152 Breaking Viewing Habits: Using a Self-Conscious, Participatory Approach in the ITV Classroom Sam Racine and Denise Dilworth...................................................................................................................................................................................................................313 Bilingual Professional Writing: An Option for Success Elaine Fredericksen.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................474 Examining Discipline-Specific Instruction in Technical Communication W. J. Williamson and Philip Sweany.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................605 Technical Writing, Service Learning, and a Rearticulation of Research, Teaching, and Service Jeffrey T. Grabill...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................816 Notes toward a "Reflective Instrumentalism": A Collaborative Look at Curricular Revision in Clemson University's MAPC Program Kathleen Yancey, Sean Williams, Barbara Heifferon, Susan Hilligoss, Tharon Howard, Martin Jacobi, Art Young, Mark Charney, Christine Boese, Beth Daniell, Carl Lovitt, and Bernadette Longo.....................937 Story Time: Teaching Technical Communication as a Narrative Way of Knowing Tracy Bridgeford...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1118 Hypermediating the Resume James Kalmbach......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1359 Using Role-Plays to Teach Technical Communication Barry Batorsky and Laura Renick-Butera......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................14810 Who are the Users? Media Representations as Audience-Analysis Teaching Tools Karla Saari Kitalong.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................16811 What's Up, Doc? Approaching Medicine as a Cultural Institution in the Technical Communication Classroom by Studying the Discourses of Standard and Alternative Cancer Treatments Michael J. Zerbe.............................................................................................................................................18312 Learning with Students: Technology Autobiographies in the Classroom Dickie Selfe..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................19713 A Pedagogical Framework for Faculty-Student Research and Public Service in Technical Communication Brad Mehlenbacher and R. Stanley Dicks.....................................................................................................................................................................................................21914 At the Nexus of Theory and Practice: Guided, Critical Reflection for Learning Beyond the Classroom in Technical Communication Craig Hansen....................................................................................................................................................................................................23815 (Re)Connecting Theory and Practice: Academics Collaborating with Workplace Professionals-the NIU/Chicago Chapter STC Institute for Professional Development Christine Abbott..................................................................................................................................................................25416 Making Connections in Secondary Education: Document Exchange Between Technical Writing Classes and High School English Classes Annmarie Guzy and Laura A. Sullivan............................................................................................................................................................................27217 Ongoing Research and Responsive Curricula in the Two-Year College Gary Bays...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................29118 Extreme Pedagogies: Teaching in Partnership, Teaching at a Distance Billie...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of UP Colorado
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0874215749
• ISBN 13: 9780874215748
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
• Herausgeber: Bridgeford Tracy, Kitalong Karla Saari, Selfe Dickie
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