Forthcoming Technical Communication Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Mastering Technical Communication Skills

   A Student's Handbook

   By Peter Wide

   This handbook provides students with the communication skills they will need to further their careers. It provides self-assessments, a structure for planning, and the skills required for starting a career. The handbook highlights the main issues that have to be taken in consideration when planning...

   To Be Published April 30th 2013 by Pan Stanford Publishing
2. Designing for User Engagement on the Web

   10 Basic Principles

   Edited by Cheryl Geisler

   Designing for User Engagement on the Web: 10 Basic Principles is concerned with making user experience engaging. The cascade of social web applications we are now familiar with — blogs, consumer reviews, wikis, and social networking — are all engaging experiences. But engagement is an increasingly...

   To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
3. Social Media in Disaster Response

   How Experience Architects Can Build for Participation

   By Liza Potts

   Series: ATTW Series in Technical and Professional Communication

   Social Media in Disaster Response focuses on how emerging social web tools provide researchers and practitioners with new opportunities to address disaster communication and information design for participatory cultures. Both groups, however, currently lack research toolkits for tracing participant...

   To Be Published September 3rd 2013 by Routledge
4. Software Evanglism and the Rhetoric of Morality

   Coding Justice in a Digital Democracy

   By Jennifer Maher

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   Examining the layers of meaning encoded in software and the rhetoric surrounding it, this book offers a much-needed perspective on the intersections between software, morality, and politics. In software development culture, evangelism typically denotes a rhetorical practice that aims to convert...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology and Society

   Edited by Daniel Lee Kleinman, Kelly Moore

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   To Be Published February 27th 2014 by Routledge