"Teaching content management in technical and professional communication offers a comprehensive overview of approaches to teaching the complex subject of content management. The book defines and explains content management and its accompanying competencies, providing teaching examples in areas including content strategy, topic-based writing, usability studies, and social media. It covers tasks associated with content management such as analyzing audiences and using information architecture languages including XML and DITA. The book also highlights the communal aspects of content management, focusing on the work of writing stewardship and project management, and the characteristics of content management in global contexts. It concludes with a look to the future and the forces that shape content management today. The editor situates the collection within a pedagogical exigency, providing sound instructional approaches to teaching content management from a rhetorical perspective. The book is an essential resource for both instructors new to teaching technical and professional communication, and for experienced instructors who are interested in upgrading their pedagogies to include content management"--
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Known for its treatment of the rhetorical situation and coverage of usability and persuasion, this edition contains new chapters and an innovative, visually oriented design that will engage today's students.
What are you going to say to Wells ? You do not know how you are going to compare his data with Bergman's stuff . You cannot do anything about the fact that Wells's figures are for 1982 and Bergman's for 1983.
On May 17 , Lester Mont , a 20 - year - old AAU student , receives approval to register for his second year of Management Science , which is to commence in September . Telephone registration starts at 8 A.M. on Monday , June 5 .
This is a core textbook suitable for undergraduate courses in technical and professional communication.
All descriptions of and instructions for creating technical documents are accompanied by clear, annotated model documents. In addition, graphic illustrations appear throughout the book to make abstract concepts easy to understand.
At the same time, we are seeing remarkable growth in jobs devoted to these other content-centric skills. This book provides a roadmap including best practices, pedagogies for teaching, and implications for research in these areas.
Divided into two flexible parts--Principles and Applications--the text lays a strong foundation in the rhetoric principles before examining the principle types of workplace documents with checklists for use in preparing them.
In the workplace, no one wants to read what you write. This book gives students the tools that they will need to get their message across in today's busy and complex workplace.