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.
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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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.
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.
Assembling Critical Components presents TPC as a collective identity and provides a framework for situating critical components of the field.
Laying the conceptual groundwork. Oppression -- Justice -- Rearticulating the 3Ps. Positionality -- Privilege -- Power -- Building coalitions. Coalitional action -- Critiques and responses -- Afterword.
This practical volume provides a thorough introduction to conducting and critically reading research in technical communication, complete with exemplars of research articles for study.
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 ...