Baywood's Technical Communications
Connecting People with Technology: Issues in Professional Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By George Hayhoe, Helen Grady
March 31, 2021
This book explores five important areas where technology affects society, and suggests ways in which human communication can facilitate the use of that technology.Usability has become a foundational discipline in technical and professional communication that grows out of our rhetorical roots, which...
Exploring the Rhetoric of International Professional Communication: An Agenda for Teachers and Researchers
1st Edition
By Carl Lovitt, Dixie Goswami
March 31, 2021
Presents a collection of fourteen essays that responds to the need for a more rhetorical conception of professional communication as an international discipline. This book challenges the adequacy of relying on preconceived notions about the factors that determine discourse in international ...
Word Processing for Technical Writers
1st Edition
By Robert Krull
July 29, 2019
Supports the idea of matching the "system" to the technical writer's needs. This book contains numerous questions and answers....
Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports: The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838
1st Edition
By R. John Brockmann
January 21, 2019
By 1838, over two thousand Americans had been killed and many hundreds injured by exploding steam engines on steamboats. After calls for a solution in two State of the Union addresses, a Senate Select Committee met to consider an investigative report from the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, the...
Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers
1st Edition
By Kelli Cargile Cook, Keith Grant-Davis
May 31, 2017
In "Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers", 24 college educators focus on the most important questions to be addressed by all scholar-teachers and administrators committed to developing high-quality online education programs. We describe these questions as "global" because they ...
Communicative Practices in Workplaces and the Professions: Cultural Perspectives on the Regulation of Discourse and Organizations
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Zachry, Charlotte Thralls
March 29, 2017
Bringing together prominent scholars from a variety of disciplines, "Communicative Practices in Workplaces and the Professions: Cultural Perspectives on the Regulation of Discourse and Organizations" offers readers an engaging set of essays on the complicated relationship between discourse and the ...
Complex Worlds: Digital Culture, Rhetoric and Professional Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrienne Lamberti, Anne Richards
March 29, 2017
'Complex Worlds: Digital Culture, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication' is a collection of thought-provoking scholarly essays by teachers and industry practitioners in professional communication and technology-oriented fields. Scrupulously edited for a range of readers, the collection aims to ...
Freedom of Information in a Post 9-11 World
1st Edition
By Charles Sides
March 29, 2017
"Freedom of Information in a Post 9-11 World" is, to date, the first international scholarly examination of the impact of the terrorist attack on the United States in terms of how it may alter academic and corporate research, as well as the sharing of information generated by that research, by ...
From Black Codes to Recodification: Removing the Veil from Regulatory Writing
1st Edition
By Miriam Williams
March 29, 2017
This book examines Texas regulations from the Texas Black Codes of 1866, some of the most deceptive regulations in Texas history, to contemporary Texas Child Care Licensing regulations, which perhaps symbolize some of the most audience-friendly contemporary regulations in Texas. The author focuses ...
Large Type Edition: Large Type Edition
1st Edition
By Timothy Giles, Charles Sides
March 29, 2017
Examination of the work of scientific icons-Newton, Descartes, and others-reveals the metaphors and analogies that directed their research and explain their discoveries. Today, scientists tend to balk at the idea of their writing as rhetorical, much less metaphorical. How did this schism over ...
The Emergence of a Tradition: Technical Writing in the English Renaissance, 1475-1640
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Tebeaux
March 29, 2017
Examining books on different topics as these appeared during the Renaissance allows us to see developments in the use of graphics, the shift from orality to textuality, the expansion of knowledge, and rise of literacy, particularly among middle-class women readers, who were an important audience ...
Content Management: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By George Pullman, Gu Baotung
March 16, 2017
This collection of articles is the first attempt by academics and professional writers to delve into the world of content management systems. The knowledge economy's greatest asset and primary problem is information management: finding it, validating it, re-purposing it, keeping it current, and ...