ATTW Series in Technical and Professional Communication
About the Book Series
The ATTW Series in Technical and Professional Communication publishes interesting and useful work in a wide range of topics related to technical and professional communication (TPC), including but not limited to the following: assessment of TPC programs, content management systems, globalization of TPC, human-computer interaction, intercultural communication, health-care and medical communication, pedagogy of TPC, publication management, risk and crisis communication, service learning in TPC, technical and professional editing, translation of TPC, usability/user-experience and accessibility studies, visual communication, and web design and development.
To propose a new book for the series, please contact series editors Michele Simmons ([email protected]).
Teaching User Experience: A Process Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Heather Turner, Emma Rose
October 27, 2025
Outlining a process approach, this book offers a theoretical and pedagogical framework for how to teach User Experience (UX) from a Technical and Professional Communication (TPC) perspective. Recognizing that pedagogy is local to an institution, context, and community, the collection includes ...
Technical Communication and the Discipline of Content: Considerations for Research, Training, and Career Readiness
1st Edition
By Rebekka Andersen, Carlos Evia
September 22, 2025
This book explores how workflows and technologies that treat content as computable data are changing the roles, work activities, and outputs of professional technical communicators. It describes how the need for disciplinary approaches to design, manage, and deliver content has given rise to “the ...
Designing for Social Justice: Community-Engaged Approaches in Technical and Professional Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Jialei Jiang, Jason C.K. Tham
March 30, 2025
Exploring the intersection of design research and community engagement, this book highlights the ways in which design and design theories can be used to address social justice issues and promote positive change in communities. Contributors illuminate the theoretical, ethical, and pedagogical ...
Sustainable Crowdfunding: Research-Based Analysis for Communication Campaigns
1st Edition
By Adam Pope
June 23, 2023
This book analyzes the communication and writing strategies necessary to craft and maintain ongoing crowdfunding campaigns to support businesses, nonprofits, artists, and others. Drawing on theory from technical communication and user experience, as well as mixed methods research, and text mining,...
Augmentation Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in Technical Communication: Designing Ethical Futures
1st Edition
By Ann Hill Duin, Isabel Pedersen
June 01, 2023
This book enables readers to interrogate the technical, rhetorical, theoretical, and socio-ethical challenges and opportunities involved in the development and adoption of augmentation technologies and artificial intelligence. The core of our human experience and identity is forever affected by ...
Content Strategy: A How-to Guide
1st Edition
By Guiseppe Getto, Jack T. Labriola, Sheryl Ruszkiewicz
November 30, 2022
This comprehensive text provides a how-to guide for content strategy, enabling students and professionals to understand and master the skills needed to develop and manage technical content in a range of professional contexts. The landscape of technical communication has been revolutionized by ...
Embodied Environmental Risk in Technical Communication: Problems and Solutions Toward Social Sustainability
1st Edition
Edited
By Samuel Stinson, Mary Le Rouge
March 04, 2022
This collection calls for improved technical communication for the public through an embodied, situated understanding of environmental risk that promotes social justice. In addition to providing a series of chapters about recent issues on risk communication, this volume offers a diverse look at ...
The Profession and Practice of Technical Communication
1st Edition
By Yvonne Cleary
July 30, 2021
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. Through research on the history and the globalization of technical communication and ...
Design Thinking in Technical Communication: Solving Problems through Making and Collaboration
1st Edition
By Jason C. K. Tham
May 19, 2021
This book explicates the relationships between design thinking, critical making, and socially responsive technical communication. It leverages the recent technology-powered DIY culture called "the Maker Movement" to identify how citizen innovation can inform cutting-edge social innovation that ...
Teaching Content Management in Technical and Professional Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Tracy Bridgeford
February 17, 2020
This collection offers a comprehensive overview of approaches to teaching the complex subject of content management. The 12 chapters define and explain content management and its accompanying competencies, providing teaching examples in areas including content strategy, topic-based writing, ...
Content Strategy in Technical Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Guiseppe Getto, Jack Labriola, Sheryl Ruszkiewicz
September 30, 2019
Content Strategy in Technical Communication provides a balanced, comprehensive overview of the current state of content strategy within the field of technical communication while showcasing groundbreaking work in the field. Emerging technologies such as content management systems, social media ...
Translation and Localization: A Guide for Technical and Professional Communicators
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruce Maylath, Kirk St.Amant
June 03, 2019
Detailed yet accessible, Translation and Localization brings together the research and insights of veteran practicing translators to offer comprehensive guidance for technical communicators. The volume begins with the fundamentals of translation before leading readers through the process of ...