Designing Technical and Professional Communication
Designing Technical and Professional Communication

Author: Deborah C. Andrews

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-25

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 1000470407

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This concise and flexible core textbook integrates a design thinking approach, rhetorical strategies, and a global perspective to help students succeed as technical and professional communicators in today’s multimodal, mobile, and global community. Design thinking and good communication practices are rooted in empathy and human values. The integrated approach fosters students' ability to address the complex problems they will face in their careers, where they will collaborate with people who present diverse expertise, cultures, languages, and values. This book introduces the knowledge and skills as well as agile activities that help students communicate on projects within local and global communities. Parts 1 and 2 introduce the strategies for design thinking, audience analysis, communicating ethically, collaborating professionally, and managing projects to define problems and implement solutions. In Parts 3 and 4, students learn to compose content in text and visuals. They learn to structure and deliver content by choosing the right genre and selecting effectively from the communication options available in today's multimodal environment. Designing Technical and Professional Communication serves as a flexible core textbook for technical and professional communication courses. An instructor’s manual containing exercises, sample syllabus, and guidance for teaching in a variety of settings is available online at www.routledge.com/9780367549602.

Designing Technical and Professional Communication
Designing Technical and Professional Communication

Author: Deborah C. Andrews

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-10

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9781003093763

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This concise and flexible core textbook integrates a design thinking approach, rhetorical strategies, and a global perspective to help students succeed as technical and professional communicators in today's multimodal, mobile, and global community. Design thinking and good communication practices are rooted in empathy and human values. The integrated approach fosters students' ability to address the complex problems they will face in their careers, where they will collaborate with people who present diverse expertise, cultures, languages, and values. This book introduces the knowledge and skills as well as agile activities that help students communicate on projects within local and global communities. Parts 1 and 2 introduce the strategies for design thinking, audience analysis, communicating ethically, collaborating professionally, and managing projects to define problems and implement solutions. In Parts 3 and 4, students learn to compose content in text and visuals. They learn to structure and deliver content by choosing the right genre and selecting effectively from the communication options available in today's multimodal environment. Designing Technical and Professional Communication serves as a flexible core textbook for technical and professional communication courses. An instructor's manual containing exercises, sample syllabus, and guidance for teaching in a variety of settings is available online at www.routledge.com/9780367549602.

Design Thinking in Technical Communication
Design Thinking in Technical Communication

Author: Jason Tham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-18

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1000392309

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This book explicates the relationships between design thinking, critical making, and socially responsive technical communication. It leverages the recent technology-powered DIY culture called "the Maker Movement" to identify how citizen innovation can inform cutting-edge social innovation that advocates for equitable change and progress on today’s "wicked" problems. After offering a succinct account of the origin and recent history of design thinking, along with its connections to the design paradigm in writing studies, the book analyzes maker culture and its influences on innovation and education through an ethnographic study of three academic makerspaces. It offers opportunities to cultivate a sense of critical changemaking in technical communication students and practitioners, showcasing examples of socially responsive innovation and expert interviews that urge a disciplinary attention to social justice advocacy and an embrace of the design-thinking principle of radical collaboration. The value of design thinking methodologies for teaching and practicing socially responsible technical communication are demonstrated as the author argues for a future in the field that sees its constituents as leaders in radical innovation to solve wicked social problems. This book is essential reading for instructors, students, and practitioners of technical communication, and can be used as a supplemental text for graduate and undergraduate courses in usability and user-centered design and research.

Technical Communication
Technical Communication

Author: Jon Balzotti

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-02

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1000450287

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-Comprehensive textbook for introductory classes in technical and professional communication -Distinguished by its design-centric approach to topics ranging from document development, problem solving, writing for the web, and writing in collaborative teams -Accompanied by an innovative website providing immersive, interactive simulations in which students take on the role of technical communicators to respond to real-world professional challenges -Online resources for instructors also include video downloads, sample assignments, and other resources

Teaching Professional and Technical Communication
Teaching Professional and Technical Communication

Author: Tracy Bridgeford

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2018-09-21

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1607326809

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Teaching Professional and Technical Communication guides new instructors in teaching professional and technical communication (PTC). The essays in this volume provide theoretical and applied discussions about the teaching of this diverse subject, including relevant pedagogical approaches, how to apply practical aspects of PTC theory, and how to design assignments. This practicum features chapters by prominent PTC scholars and teachers on rhetoric, style, ethics, design, usability, genre, and other central concerns of PTC programs. Each chapter includes a scenario or personal narrative of teaching a particular topic, provides a theoretical basis for interpreting the narrative, illustrates the practical aspects of the approach, describes relevant assignments, and presents a list of questions to prompt pedagogical discussions. Teaching Professional and Technical Communication is not a compendium of best practices but instead offers a practical collection of rich, detailed narratives that show inexperienced PTC instructors how to work most effectively in the classroom. Contributors: Pam Estes Brewer, Eva Brumberger, Dave Clark, Paul Dombrowski, James M. Dubinsky, Peter S. England, David K. Farkas, Brent Henze, Tharon W. Howard, Dan Jones, Karla Saari Kitalong, Traci Nathans-Kelly, Christine G. Nicometo, Kirk St.Amant

Assembling Critical Components
Assembling Critical Components

Author: Joanna Schreiber

Publisher: Wac Clearinghouse

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781646422692

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Assembling Critical Components presents TPC as a collective identity and provides a framework for situating critical components of the field.

Effective Teaching of Technical Communication
Effective Teaching of Technical Communication

Author: Michael J. Klein

Publisher: CSU Open Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781646421893

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"Effective Teaching of Technical Communication broadens our understanding of current effective teaching and pedagogical methods by facilitating a discussion of important and innovative theories, concepts, and practices related to the teaching of technical communication"--

The Profession and Practice of Technical Communication
The Profession and Practice of Technical Communication

Author: Yvonne Cleary

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-07-30

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1000407349

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This practical text offers a research-based account of the technical communication profession and its practice, outlining emergent touchpoints of this fast-changing field while highlighting its diversity. Through research on the history and the globalization of technical communication and up-to-date industry analysis, including first-hand narratives from industry practitioners, this book brings together common threads through the industry, suggests future trends, and points toward strategic routes for development. Vignettes from the workplace and examples of industry practice provide tangible insights into the different paths and realities of the field, furnishing readers with a range of entry routes and potential career sectors, workplace communities, daily activities, and futures. This approach is central to helping readers understand the diverse competencies of technical communicators in the modern, globalized economy. The Profession and Practice of Technical Communication provides essential guidance for students, early professionals, and lateral entrants to the profession and can be used as a textbook for technical communication courses.

Designing Texts
Designing Texts

Author: Eva Brumberger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-14

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1351868136

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'Designing Texts' is an edited collection dedicated to teaching visual communication in non-visual disciplines, with a particular focus on the fields of technical and professional communication, rhetoric, and composition.

Designing Visual Language
Designing Visual Language

Author: Charles Kostelnick

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780205616404

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Written by two highly experienced teachers in the field of document design, Designing Visual Language, 2/e offers useful strategies and tools for document design of all types. A chief goal of the text is to enable students to extend the rhetorical approach they employ in writing and editing courses to the creation of various forms of visual communication. The text focuses on the kinds of situations and practical documents that occur in the workplace and blends this focus with a rhetorical approach that ties design to the audience, purpose, and context of messages.