Technical Communication in the Twenty-first Century
Technical Communication in the Twenty-first Century

Author: Sidney I. Dobrin

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780131172883

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TCTC addresses the essential knowledge of what technical communication is, what it does, how it is produced, and how it reaches audiences. Readers will also learn how technical communication relates to issues of professionalism, ethics, technology, community, and personal responsibility. This book shows how today's workers take on active roles in complex communities, both professional and public, that affect writing and communication. Using a problem solving approach and a case studies approach, this book encourages readers to solve workplace communications problems by thinking through the choices you need to make in various writing scenarios.Integrates ethics and technology as considerations inextricably linked to the production and interpretation of all technical documents. Focuses on the role of making rhetorical and professional choices in writing. Professionals in any field.

Key Theoretical Frameworks
Key Theoretical Frameworks

Author: Angela M. Haas

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2018-10-17

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1607327589

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Drawing on social justice methodologies and cultural studies scholarship, Key Theoretical Frameworks offers new curricular and pedagogical approaches to teaching technical communication. Including original essays by emerging and established scholars, the volume educates students, teachers, and practitioners on identifying and assessing issues of social justice and globalization. The collection provides a valuable resource for teachers new to translating social justice theories to the classroom by presenting concrete examples related to technical communication. Each contribution adopts a particular theoretical approach, explains the theory, situates it within disciplinary scholarship, contextualizes the approach from the author’s experience, and offers additional teaching applications. The first volume of its kind, Key Theoretical Frameworks links the theoretical with the pedagogical in order to articulate, use, and assess social justice frameworks for designing and teaching courses in technical communication. Contributors: Godwin Y. Agboka, Matthew Cox, Marcos Del Hierro, Jessica Edwards, Erin A. Frost, Elise Verzosa Hurley, Natasha N. Jones, Cruz Medina, Marie E. Moeller, Kristen R. Moore, Donnie Johnson Sackey, Gerald Savage, J. Blake Scott, Barbi Smyser-Fauble, Kenneth Walker, Rebecca Walton

Digital Literacy for Technical Communication
Digital Literacy for Technical Communication

Author: Rachel Spilka

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-04

Total Pages: 573

ISBN-13: 1135236755

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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.

Reshaping Technical Communication
Reshaping Technical Communication

Author: Barbara Mirel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-06

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1135660611

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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.

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"--

Lean Technical Communication
Lean Technical Communication

Author: Meredith A. Johnson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-20

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1134968191

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Winner of the 2020 CCCC Research Impact Award Lean Technical Communication: Toward Sustainable Program Innovation offers a theoretically and empirically-grounded model for growing and stewarding professional and technical communication programs under diverse conditions. Through case studies of disruptive innovations, this book presents a forward-looking, sustainable vision of program administration that negotiates short-term resource deficits with long-term resilience. It illustrates how to meet many of the newest challenges facing technical communication programs, such as building and maintaining change with limited resources, economic shortfalls, technology deficits, and expanding/reimagining the role of our programs in the 21st century university. Its insights benefit those involved in the development of undergraduate and graduate programs, including majors, service courses, minors, specializations, and certificates.

Plain Language and Ethical Action
Plain Language and Ethical Action

Author: Russell Willerton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-05-22

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1317752090

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Plain Language and Ethical Action examines and evaluates principles and practices of plain language that technical content producers can apply to meet their audiences’ needs in an ethical way. Applying the BUROC framework (Bureaucratic, Unfamiliar, Rights-Oriented, and Critical) to identify situations in which audiences will benefit from plain language, this work offers in-depth profiles show how six organizations produce effective plain-language content. The profiles show plain-language projects done by organizations ranging from grassroots volunteers on a shoe-string budget, to small nonprofits, to consultants completing significant federal contacts. End-of-chapter questions and exercises provide tools for students and practitioners to reflect on and apply insights from the book. Reflecting global commitments to plain language, this volume includes a case study of a European group based in Sweden along with results from interviews with plain-language experts around the world, including Canada, England, South Africa. Portugal, Australia, and New Zealand. This work is intended for use in courses in information design, technical and professional communication, health communication, and other areas producing plain language communication. It is also a crucial resource for practitioners developing plain-language technical content and content strategists in a variety of fields, including health literacy, technical communication, and information design.

Fostering 21st Century Digital Literacy and Technical Competency
Fostering 21st Century Digital Literacy and Technical Competency

Author: Cartelli, Antonio

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2013-02-28

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1466629444

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The 21st century has seen an expansion in digital technology and the ways in which it affects everyday life. These technologies have become essential in the growth of social communication and mass media. Fostering 21st Century Digital Literacy and Technical Competency offers the latest in research on the technological advances on computer proficiency in the educational system and society. This collection of research brings together theories and experiences in order to create a common framework and is essential for educators and professionals in the technology fields.