Baywood's Technical Communications
Cross-cultural Communication: Perspectives in Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Thomas Warren
March 16, 2017
"Cross-Cultural Communication" is a collection of essays that examines how practitioners can improve the acceptance of their documentation when communicating to cultures other than their own. The essays begin by examining the cross-cultural issues relating to quality in documentation. From there, ...
Internships: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Charles Sides, Ann Mrvica
March 16, 2017
"Internships: Theory and Practice" focuses on the history, theory, value, design, administration, and evaluation of professional internships as an educational experience for college students. Internships are guided, pre-professional experiences that combine academic and professional components as a...
Culture, Communication and Cyberspace: Rethinking Technical Communication for International Online Environments
1st Edition
By Kirk St. Amant, Filipp Sapienza, Charles Sides
February 07, 2017
The increasingly global nature of the World Wide Web presents new challenges and opportunities for technical communicators who must develop content for clients or colleagues from other cultures and in other nations. As international online access grows, technical communicators will encounter a ...
Resources in Technical Communication: Outcomes and Approaches
1st Edition
By Cynthia Selfe
February 07, 2017
Provides the instructors of introductory technical communication courses with a set of resources for their classrooms....
Together with Technology: Writing Review, Enculturation, and Technological Mediation
1st Edition
By Jason Swarts
February 07, 2017
This book examines the complex roles that texts serve as parts of an organizational cognitive infrastructure. Texts make knowledge and experience tangible and durable. They help shape interactions between people. As professions have become more writing-centered in recent decades, many organizations...
Assessment in Technical and Professional Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Margaret Hundleby, Jo Allen
February 06, 2017
This collection of essays focuses on both how and why assessment serves as a key element in the teaching and practice of technical and professional communication. The collection is organized to form a dual approach: on the one hand, it offers a landscape view of the activities involved in ...
The Language of Work: Technical Communication at Lukens Steel, 1810 to 1925
1st Edition
By Carol Siri Johnson, Charles Sides
December 23, 2016
Lukens Steel was an extraordinary business that spanned two centuries of American history. The firm rolled the first boiler plate in 1818 and operated the largest rolling mills in America in 1890, 1903, and 1918, Later it worked on the Manhattan Project and built the steel beams for the base of the...
How the Brain Processes Multimodal Technical Instructions
2nd Edition
By Dirk Remley
January 30, 2016
While Aristotle acknowledges the connection between rhetoric, biology, and cognitive abilities, scholarship continues to struggle to integrate the fields of rhetoric and neurobiology. Drawing on recent work in neurorhetoric, this book offers a model that integrates multimodal rhetorical theory and ...
The New Normal: Pressures on Technical Communication Programs in the Age of Austerity
1st Edition
By Denise Tillery, Ed Nagelhout
December 30, 2015
As colleges and universities across the country continue to deal with regular decreases in state funding, technical communication programs, in particular, are being forced to "do more with less." As budget cuts become the new normal, the long-term health of technical communication depends on our ...
Academy-Industry Relationships and Partnerships: Perspectives for Technical Communicators
1st Edition
By Tracy Bridgeford, Kirk St. Amant
October 30, 2015
In the field of technical communication, academics and industry practitioners alike regularly encounter the same question: "What exactly is it you do?" Their responses often reveal a fundamental difference of perspective on what the field is and how it operates. For example, academics might discuss...
The Other Kind of Funnies: Comics in Technical Communication
1st Edition
By Han Yu
October 30, 2015
The Other Kind of Funnies refutes the mainstream American cultural assumption that comics have little to do with technical communication-that the former are entertaining (in a low-brow sense) and juvenile, whereas the latter is practical and serious (to the point of stuffiness). The first of its ...
The Flowering of a Tradition: Technical Writing in England, 1641-1700
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Tebeaux
December 30, 2014
The Flowering of a Tradition, which describes the development of technical, or practical, writing in England during the seventeenth century, from 1641 to 1700, follows Emergence of a Tradition, which tracks the emergence of English technical writing from 1475 to 1640, during the English Renaissance...