Innovative approaches to teaching technical communication /

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...

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Other Authors: Bridgeford, Tracy, 1960-, Kitalong, Karla Saari, 1952-, Selfe, Dickie, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The status of service in learning
  • 2. Breaking viewing habits: using a self-conscious, participatory approach in the ITV classroom
  • 3. Bilingual professional writing: an option for success
  • 4. Examining discipline-specific instruction in technical communication
  • 5. Technical writing, service learning, and a rearticulation of research, teaching, and service
  • 6. Note toward a "reflective instrumentalism": a collaborative look at curricular revision in Clemson University's MAPC program
  • 7. Story time: teaching technical communication as a narrative way of knowing
  • 8. Hypermediating the resume
  • 9. Using role-plays to teach technical communication
  • 10. Who are the users: media representations as audience-analysis teaching tools
  • 11. 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
  • 12. Learning with students: technology autobiographies in the classroom
  • 13. A pedagogical framework for faculty-student research and public service in technical communication
  • 14. At the nexus of theory and practice: guided, critical reflection for learning beyond the classroom in technical communication
  • 15. (Re)connecting theory and practice: academics collaborating with workplace professionals-the NIU/Chicaol Chapter STC Institute for Professional Development
  • 16. Making connections in secondary education: document exchange between technical writing classes and high school English classes
  • 17. Ongoing research and responsive curricula in the two-year college
  • 18. Extreme pedagogies: teaching in partnership, teaching at a distance.
  • INTRODUCTION Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication; PART ONE Pedagogical Perspectives; PART TWO Pedagogical Practices; PART THREE Pedagogical Partnerships; ENDNOTES; REFERENCES; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.