Baywood's Technical Communications
Exploding Technical Communication: Workplace Literacy Hierarchies and Their Implications for Literacy Sponsorship
1st Edition
By Remley Dirk, Charles Sides
November 30, 2014
Within the framework of New Literacy Studies, Dirk Remley presents a historical study of how technical communication practices at a World War II arsenal sponsored literacy within the community in which it operated from 1940 to 1960 and contemporary implications of similar forms of sponsorship. The ...
Rhetorical Accessability: At the Intersection of Technical Communication and Disability Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Meloncon
November 30, 2014
Rhetorical Accessability is the first text to bring the fields of technical communication and disability studies into conversation. The two fields also share a pragmatic foundation in their concern with accommodation and accessibility, that is, the material practice of making social and technical ...
Legal Issues in Global Contexts: Perspectives on Technical Communication in an International Age
1st Edition
By Kirk St. Amant, Martine Rife
August 30, 2014
Today, it has been said, the world is "flat," as online media allow information to move easily from point to point across the earth. International legal differences, however, are increasingly affecting the ease with which data and ideas can be shared across nations. Copyright law, for example, ...
Deadly Documents: Technical Communication, Organizational Discourse, and the Holocaust: Lessons from the Rhetorical Work of Everyday Texts
1st Edition
By Mark Ward
May 30, 2014
Scholars, teachers, and practitioners of organizational, professional, and technical communication and rhetoric are target audiences for a new book that reaches across those disciplines to explore the dynamics of the Holocaust. More than a history, the book uses the extreme case of the Final ...
Sharing Our Intellectual Traces: Narrative Reflections from Administrators of Professional, Technical, and Scientific Programs
1st Edition
By Tracy Bridgeford, Karla Saari Kitalong, Bill Williamson
April 30, 2014
Administrators of academic professional and technical communication (PTSC) programs have long relied upon lore--stories of what works--to understand and communicate about the work of program administration. Stories are interesting, telling, engaging, and necessary. But a discipline focused ...
Communicating Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Technical Communication
1st Edition
By Miriam Williams, Octavio Pimentel
March 30, 2014
The purpose of this book is to move our field's discussion beyond issues of diversity in the practice of technical communication, which is certainly important, to include discussions of how race and ethnicity inform the production and distribution of technical communication in the United States. ...
Readercentric Writing for Digital Media: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By David Hailey
February 28, 2014
This book presents an altogether new approach to writing and evaluating writing in digital media. It suggests that usability theory provides few tools for evaluating content, because usability theory assumes only one kind of writing on the Internet. The author suggests three models: user-centric (...
A Unified Theory of Information Design: Visuals, Text and Ethics
1st Edition
By Nicole Amare, Alan Manning
December 30, 2013
Communicative visuals, including written text, have a diverse range of forms and purposes. In this volume, the authors show that it is possible to both describe and explain the major properties of diverse visual-communication forms and purposes within a common theoretical framework of information ...
Designing Web-Based Applications for 21st Century Writing Classrooms
1st Edition
By George Pullman, Gu Baotong
June 30, 2013
Designing Web-Based Applications for 21st Century Writing Classrooms brings together, for the first time, a group of scholars and teachers who have been developing, on their own initiative, web-based solutions to technical and professional writing instructional problems. In industry the perennial ...
Online Education 2.0: Evolving, Adapting, and Reinventing Online Technical Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Kelli Cargille Cook
May 30, 2013
The collection asks how faculty, courses, and programmes have responded and adapted to changes in students' needs and abilities, to economic constraints, to new course management systems, and to Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking, virtual worlds, and mobile communication devices. ...
Stalinist Genetics: The Constitutional Rhetoric of T. D. Lysenko
1st Edition
Edited
By Dmitri Stanchevici
September 15, 2011
Stalinist Genetics focuses on the rhetoric of T. D. Lysenko, the founder of an agrobiological doctrine (Lysenkoism) in the Stalinist Soviet Union. Using not only scientific but also political and ideological arguments, Lysenko achieved an official ban on Soviet Mendelian genetics. Though the ban ...
Envisioning Collaboration: Group Verbal-visual Composing in a System of Creativity
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Cross, Charles Sides
March 15, 2011
The dissemination of desktop publishing and web authoring software has allowed nearly everyone in industrialized countries to combine verbal and visual symbols into text. Serious multimodal projects often demand extensive teamwork, especially in the workplace. But how can collaboration engaging ...