Faculty have used Anderson's TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION: A READER-CENTERED APPROACH to prepare thousands of students for the writing they will do in their careers. Known for its rhetorical treatment of workplace writing and speaking, this text helps students learn practical, flexible strategies for creating useful and persuasive communications on the job. Reorganized and streamlined to enhance student learning, the ninth edition includes greatly expanded attention to social media. It also introduces to technical communication pedagogy a set of exercises and instruction that help students transfer their technical communication knowledge and skills from school to workplace. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
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The book is structured in four parts, offering an overview of the field, situating it historically and culturally, reviewing various theoretical approaches to technical communication, and examining how the field can be advanced by drawing ...
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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.
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.
The book covers the entire spectrum of learning required by a technical professional to effectively communicate the technicalities of his subject to other technocrats or to a non-technical person at their proper levels.
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.
that Peirce developed to talk about his general theory of signs. (The literary theorist Robert Scholes has dryly observed that Peirce was addicted to opium and terminology [4].) We will try to distill some of Peirce's most important ...
Assembling Critical Components presents TPC as a collective identity and provides a framework for situating critical components of the field.
is a book that should be included not only in libraries , but also in personal libraries . This book is well written and well developed . Indexed . 1-047 . Bell , Arthur H. NTC's Business Writer's Handbook : Business Communication from ...