Exploding Technical Communication

Author : Remley Dirk,Charles H. Sides
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429652585

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Exploding Technical Communication by Remley Dirk,Charles H. Sides Pdf

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 Training within Industry (TWI) methods developed by the U.S. government and industry at that time included multimodal literate practices, particularly combinations of visual, oral, experiential, and print-linguistic text. Analyses reveal a hierarchy in which print-linguistic literacies were generally esteemed at the workplace and in the community. This literacy hierarchy contributed to a catastrophic accident that killed 11 people, prompting changes in the approach to designing certain training documents. This book links technical communication, especially the multimodal forms of representation commonly found in technical communication and instructional materials, to the concept of literacy sponsorship. The TWI methods used in training and system improvement during World War II are currently applied in business and industry as part of the "lean operating" and "continuous improvement" philosophies. These methods have also become part of the experiential learning philosophy favored in academia. Remley includes examples of current applications of multimodal forms of technical communication similar to those used at the arsenal as well as new media-related applications related to training and instruction. He also discusses their implications for literacy sponsorship. This book provides useful information for technical communication and literacy scholars and educators as well as practical case studies for business leaders, consultants, and practitioners. Intended Audience: Scholars in technical communication and literacy/writing studies; scholars in business (especially management and organizational analysis) and business communication consultants; scholars in history and sociology.

Author : Kristen R. Moore,Daniel P. Richards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351203050

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Posthuman Praxis in Technical Communication by Kristen R. Moore,Daniel P. Richards Pdf

This collection, aimed at scholars, teachers, and practitioners in technical communication, focuses on the praxis-based connections between technical communication and theoretical movements that have emerged in the past several decades, namely new materialism and posthumanism. It provides a much needed link between contemporary theoretical discussions about new materialisms and posthumanism and the practical, everyday work of technical communicators. The collection insists that where some theoretical perspectives fall flat for practitioners, posthumanism and new materialisms have the potential to enable more effective and comprehensive practices, methodologies, and pedagogies.

Author : Samuel Stinson,Mary Le Rouge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000548884

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Embodied Environmental Risk in Technical Communication by Samuel Stinson,Mary Le Rouge Pdf

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 methodological practices for students, researchers, and practitioners looking to address embodied aspects of crisis and risk that incorporate UX, storytelling, and dynamic text. It includes chapters that bring embodiment to the forefront of risk communication, highlighting the cycle of content creation, dissemination, public response and decision making, continuing iterations of educational efforts, and recovery, toward increasing adaptive capacity as a whole. In addition, this work directs necessary attention to overcoming perceptual difficulties, memory lapses, definitional differences, access issues, and pedagogical problems in the communication of risks to diverse publics. This collection is essential reading for scholars and can be used as a supplemental text or casebook for courses in technical communication, environmental communication, risk and crisis communication, science communication, and public health.

Author : Federal Council for Science and Technology (U.S.). Task Group on the Role of the Technical Report
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Communication in science
ISBN : OSU:32435011400579

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The Role of the Technical Report in Scientific and Technological Communication by Federal Council for Science and Technology (U.S.). Task Group on the Role of the Technical Report Pdf

Author : United States. Task Group on the Role of the Technical Report
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Communication in science
ISBN : UOM:39015014718780

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The Role of the Technical Report in Scientific and Technological Communication by United States. Task Group on the Role of the Technical Report Pdf

Author : R. John Brockmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351844475

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Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports by R. John Brockmann Pdf

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 first federally funded investigation into a technical.

Author : Heather Graves
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Communication of technical information
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication by Heather Graves Pdf

Author : Dirk Remley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351865401

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How the Brain Processes Multimodal Technical Instructions by Dirk Remley Pdf

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 multisensory neural processing theory pertaining to cognition and learning. Using existing theories from multimodal rhetoric and specific findings from neurobiological studies, the author develops a model that integrates concepts from both fields, bridging, if not uniting, them. He also discusses possible applications of the new model, with specific case studies related to training and instruction. These applications include various media used in instructional and training contexts, such as print, slide shows, videos, simulations, and hands-on training. The book thus introduces concepts of cognitive neuroscience to multimodal rhetorical theory and facilitates theorization combining multimodal rhetoric and multisensory cognition, and serves as a vehicle by which readers can better understand the links between multimodal rhetoric and cognitive neuroscience associated with technical communication. Integrating case studies from industry and practice, the text makes explicit connections between academic scholarship and workplace preparation. It also describes how interdisciplinary research can contribute to pharmaceutical research, as well as the development of productive instructional materials. Rhetoric is affected by how the brain of any member of a given audience can process information. This book can promote further research-qualitative and quantitative-to develop a better understanding of the relationship between multimodal messages and how the brain processes such information.

Author : S.D. Sharma
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Technical writing
ISBN : 8176257516

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A Text Book of Scientific and Technical Communication Writing for Engineers and Professionals by S.D. Sharma Pdf

Author : Jennifer deWinter,Ryan M. Moeller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317162612

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Computer Games and Technical Communication by Jennifer deWinter,Ryan M. Moeller Pdf

Taking as its point of departure the fundamental observation that games are both technical and symbolic, this collection investigates the multiple intersections between the study of computer games and the discipline of technical and professional writing. Divided into five parts, Computer Games and Technical Communication engages with questions related to workplace communities and gamic simulations; industry documentation; manuals, gameplay, and ethics; training, testing, and number crunching; and the work of games and gamifying work. In that computer games rely on a complex combination of written, verbal, visual, algorithmic, audio, and kinesthetic means to convey information, technical and professional writing scholars are uniquely poised to investigate the intersection between the technical and symbolic aspects of the computer game complex. The contributors to this volume bring to bear the analytic tools of the field to interpret the roles of communication, production, and consumption in this increasingly ubiquitous technical and symbolic medium.

Author : Dirk Remley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351796682

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The Neuroscience of Multimodal Persuasive Messages by Dirk Remley Pdf

Cover -- Half Title -- Titel Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Permission Page -- 1 Persuasive Rhetoric and the Brain -- 2 Multimodality and Neurobiology -- 3 The Neuro-Cognitive Model of Multimodal Rhetoric -- 4 Framing Perception With Media -- 5 Narrative and Persuasion -- 6 Dress and Natural [Neural] Codes: Smell, Setting, and Audience -- 7 Persuasion of Change -- 8 Historical Political Speeches -- 9 Persuasion, Perception, and the Law -- 10 Applications in Production of Materials -- 11 A Neurorhetorical Analysis of a Multimodal Print Persuasive Message -- 12 Conclusion -- References -- Index

Author : Daniel Reardon,David Wright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781501352560

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The Digital Role-Playing Game and Technical Communication by Daniel Reardon,David Wright Pdf

With annual gross sales surpassing 100 billion U.S. dollars each of the last two years, the digital games industry may one day challenge theatrical-release movies as the highest-grossing entertainment media in the world. In their examination of the tremendous cultural influence of digital games, Daniel Reardon and David Wright analyze three companies that have shaped the industry: Bethesda, located in Rockville, Maryland; BioWare in Edmonton, Alberta, and CD Projekt Red in Warsaw, Poland. Each company has used social media and technical content in the games to promote players' belief that players control the companies' game narratives. The result has been at times explosive, as empowered players often attempted to co-op the creative processes of games through discussion board forum demands, fund-raising campaigns to persuade companies to change or add game content, and modifications (“modding”) of the games through fan-created downloads. The result has changed the way we understand the interactive nature of digital games and the power of fan culture to shape those games.

Author : James M. Dubinsky,J. Harrison Carpenter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000948042

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Civic Engagement and Technical Communication by James M. Dubinsky,J. Harrison Carpenter Pdf

This special issue on civic engagement and technical communication focuses on the ways educators can help students become actively engaged members of society, particularly a "rhetorical democracy." The first essay examines the concept of community as a locus for civic engagement and question some of the definitions of community seen embedded in current pedagogical practices. The next article seeks to shape understanding of practice. The tension of developing students' civic awareness and engagement is the topic of the third paper. The fourth article helps students gain skills and organization awareness and improves the perceived relevance of the work. The final two essays approach the issue of civic engagement from slightly different angles--one examining the role of teacher as both rhetor and instructor and the other looking to the past for possible solutions for the future. By continuing the conversation about the relationship between technical communication and the public good and focusing specifically on pedagogical strategies and their theoretical and historical underpinnings, the authors in this special issue clarify roles that technical communication and technical communicators play in civil society, as well as ways curricula can be shaped to prepare students to fill those roles.

Author : Subhash Ranade
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8176256269

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A Text Book Of Professional Communication by Subhash Ranade Pdf

Author : Heather Graves,Roger Graves
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781770483385

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A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication - Second Edition (US) by Heather Graves,Roger Graves Pdf

A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication incorporates useful and specific strategies for writers, to enable them to create aesthetically appealing and usable technical documentation. These strategies have been developed and tested on a thousand students from a number of different disciplines over twelve years and three institutions. The second edition adds a chapter on business communication, reworks the discussion on technical style, and expands the information on visual communication and ethics into free-standing chapters. The text is accompanied by a passcode-protected website containing materials for instructors (PowerPoint lectures, lesson plans, sample student work, and helpful links).