Lean Technical Communication

Author : Meredith A. Johnson,W. Michele Simmons,Patricia Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781134968190

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Lean Technical Communication by Meredith A. Johnson,W. Michele Simmons,Patricia Sullivan Pdf

Winner of the 2020 CCCC Research Impact Award Lean Technical Communication: Toward Sustainable Program Innovation offers a theoretically and empirically-grounded model for growing and stewarding professional and technical communication programs under diverse conditions. Through case studies of disruptive innovations, this book presents a forward-looking, sustainable vision of program administration that negotiates short-term resource deficits with long-term resilience. It illustrates how to meet many of the newest challenges facing technical communication programs, such as building and maintaining change with limited resources, economic shortfalls, technology deficits, and expanding/reimagining the role of our programs in the 21st century university. Its insights benefit those involved in the development of undergraduate and graduate programs, including majors, service courses, minors, specializations, and certificates.

Author : Kristen R. Moore,Daniel P. Richards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Jason Tham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000392302

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Design Thinking in Technical Communication by Jason Tham Pdf

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 advocates for equitable change and progress on today’s "wicked" problems. After offering a succinct account of the origin and recent history of design thinking, along with its connections to the design paradigm in writing studies, the book analyzes maker culture and its influences on innovation and education through an ethnographic study of three academic makerspaces. It offers opportunities to cultivate a sense of critical changemaking in technical communication students and practitioners, showcasing examples of socially responsive innovation and expert interviews that urge a disciplinary attention to social justice advocacy and an embrace of the design-thinking principle of radical collaboration. The value of design thinking methodologies for teaching and practicing socially responsible technical communication are demonstrated as the author argues for a future in the field that sees its constituents as leaders in radical innovation to solve wicked social problems. This book is essential reading for instructors, students, and practitioners of technical communication, and can be used as a supplemental text for graduate and undergraduate courses in usability and user-centered design and research.

Author : Guiseppe Getto,Jack Labriola,Sheryl Ruszkiewicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429574986

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Content Strategy in Technical Communication by Guiseppe Getto,Jack Labriola,Sheryl Ruszkiewicz Pdf

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 platforms, open source information architectures, and application programming interfaces provide new opportunities for the creation, publication, and delivery of content. Technical communicators are now sometimes responsible for such diverse roles as content management, content auditing, and search engine optimization. At the same time, we are seeing remarkable growth in jobs devoted to these other content-centric skills. This book provides a roadmap including best practices, pedagogies for teaching, and implications for research in these areas. It covers elements of content strategy as diverse as "Editing Content for Global Reuse" and "Teaching Content Strategy to Graduate Students with Real Clients," while giving equal weight to professional best practices and to pedagogy for content strategy. This book is an essential resource for professionals, students, and scholars throughout the field of technical communication.

Author : Michael J. Madson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000475395

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Teaching Writing in the Health Professions by Michael J. Madson Pdf

This collection provides a research-based guide to instructional practices for writing in the health professions, promoting faculty development and bringing together perspectives from writing studies, technical communication, and health humanities. With employment in health-care sectors booming, writing instruction tailored for the health professions is in high demand. Writing instruction is critical in the health professions because health professionals, current and aspiring, need to communicate persuasively with patients, peers, mentors, and others. Writing instruction can also help cultivate professional identity, reflective practice, empathy, critical thinking, confidence, and organization, as well as research skills. This collection prepares faculty and administrators to meet this demand. It combines conceptual development of writing for the health professions as an emergent interdiscipline with evidence-based practices for instructors in academic, clinical, and community settings. Teaching Writing in the Health Professions is an essential resource for instructors, scholars, and program administrators in health disciplines, professional and technical communication, health humanities, and interdisciplinary writing studies. It informs the teaching of writing in programs in medicine, nursing, pharmacy and allied health, public health, and other related professions.

Author : Godwin Y. Agboka,Natalia Matveeva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351360326

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Citizenship and Advocacy in Technical Communication by Godwin Y. Agboka,Natalia Matveeva Pdf

In Citizenship and Advocacy in Technical Communication, teachers, researchers, and practitioners will find a variety of theoretical frameworks, empirical studies, and teaching approaches to advocacy and citizenship. Specifically, the collection is organized around three main themes or sections: considerations for understanding and defining advocacy and citizenship locally and globally, engaging with the local and global community, and introducing advocacy in a classroom. The collection covers an expansive breadth of issues and topics that speak to the complexities of undertaking advocacy work in TPC, including local grant writing activities, cosmopolitanism and global transnational rhetoric, digital citizenship and social media use, strategic and tactical communication, and diversity and social justice. The contributors themselves, representing fifteen academic institutions and occupying various academic ranks, offer nuanced definitions, frameworks, examples, and strategies for students, scholars, practitioners, and educators who want to or are already engaged in a variegated range of advocacy work. More so, they reinforce the inherent humanistic values of our field and discuss effective rhetorical and current technological tools at our disposal. Finally, they show us how, through pedagogical approaches and everyday mundane activities and practices, we (can) advocate either actively or passively.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:31951P010896349

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Technical Communication by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hickethier, Gernot
Publisher : KIT Scientific Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783731508021

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Communication Structures in the Design Phase of Lean Project Delivery by Hickethier, Gernot Pdf

Author : Tarez Samra Graban,Wendy Hayden,Ryan Skinnell
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809338573

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Teaching Through the Archives by Tarez Samra Graban,Wendy Hayden,Ryan Skinnell Pdf

"Teaching Through the Archives explores how working in the archives can foster rhetorical awareness and enhance rhetorical strategies; how archival work can support social change, activism, and community engagement; and how archivists, instructors, and community organizations can establish mutually beneficial relationships"--

Author : Remley Dirk,Charles H. Sides
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : Elizabeth L. Angeli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351599467

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Rhetorical Work in Emergency Medical Services by Elizabeth L. Angeli Pdf

Rhetorical Work in Emergency Medical Services: Communicating in the Unpredictable Workplace details how communicators harness the power of rhetoric to make decisions and communicate in unpredictable contexts. Grounded in a 16-month study in the emergency medical services (EMS) workplace, this text contributes to our theoretical, methodological, and practical understandings of the situation-specific processes that communicators and researchers engage in to respond to the urgencies and constraints of high-stakes workplaces. This book presents these intricate processes and skills—learned and innate—that workplace communicators use to accomplish goal-directed activity, collaborate with other communicators, and complete and teach workplace writing.

Author : Christopher Scott Wyatt,Dànielle Nicole DeVoss
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781602359789

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Type Matters by Christopher Scott Wyatt,Dànielle Nicole DeVoss Pdf

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Author : Jennifer deWinter,Ryan M. Moeller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Carlos Evia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351187497

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Creating Intelligent Content with Lightweight DITA by Carlos Evia Pdf

Creating Intelligent Content with Lightweight DITA documents the evolution of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) – a widely used open standard for structuring technical content. DITA has grown in popularity and features since its origins as an internal grammar for structuring technical documentation at IBM. This book introduces Lightweight DITA (LwDITA, which should be read as "Lightweight DITA") as a proposed version of the DITA standard that reduces its dependence on complex Extensible Markup Language (XML) structures and simplifies its authoring experience. This volume aims to reconcile discrepancies and similarities in methods for authoring content in industry and academia and does so by reporting on DITA’s evolution through the lens of computational thinking, which has been connected in scholarship and media to initiatives for learning to code and programming. Evia’s core argument is that if technical communicators are trained with principles of rhetorical problem solving and computational thinking, they can create structured content in lightweight workflows with XML, HTML5, and Markdown designed to reduce the learning curve associated with DITA and similar authoring methodologies. At the same time, this book has the goal of making concepts of structured authoring and intelligent content easier to learn and teach in humanities-based writing and communication programs. This book is intended for practitioners and students interested in structured authoring or the DITA standard.

Author : Jon Balzotti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000450286

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Technical Communication by Jon Balzotti Pdf

-Comprehensive textbook for introductory classes in technical and professional communication -Distinguished by its design-centric approach to topics ranging from document development, problem solving, writing for the web, and writing in collaborative teams -Accompanied by an innovative website providing immersive, interactive simulations in which students take on the role of technical communicators to respond to real-world professional challenges -Online resources for instructors also include video downloads, sample assignments, and other resources