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Civic Engagement and Technical Communication A Special Issue of Technical Communication Quarterly
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Routledge
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Volume 13, Number 3, 2004
Contents: J.M. Dubinsky, Guest Editor's Introduction. C.M. Ornatowski, L.K. Bekins, What's Civic About Technical Communication? Technical Communication and the Rhetoric of "Community." C.D. Rude, Toward an Expanded Concept of Rhetorical Delivery: The Uses of Reports in Public Policy Debates. J.B. Scott, Rearticulating Civic Engagement Through Cultural Studies and Service-Learning. D. Clark, Is Professional Writing Relevant? A Model for Action Research. M. Bowdon, Technical Communication and the Role of the Public Intellectual: A Community HIV-Prevention Case Study. M.F. Eble, L.L. Gaillet, Educating "Community Intellectuals": Rhetoric, Moral Philosophy, and Civic Engagement. REVIEWS: E. Johnson, Rhetorical Democracy: Discursive Practices of Civic Engagement. Gerard A. Hauser and Amy Grim. A.C.K. Hea, "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital." Robert D. Putnam and "Pedagogy and Political (Dis)Engagement." K. Edward Spiezio. N. Bacon, Service-Learning in Technical and Professional Communications. Melody Bowen and J. Blake Scott.
Contents: J.M. Dubinsky, Guest Editor's Introduction. C.M. Ornatowski, L.K. Bekins, What's Civic About Technical Communication? Technical Communication and the Rhetoric of "Community." C.D. Rude, Toward an Expanded Concept of Rhetorical Delivery: The Uses of Reports in Public Policy Debates. J.B. Scott, Rearticulating Civic Engagement Through Cultural Studies and Service-Learning. D. Clark, Is Professional Writing Relevant? A Model for Action Research. M. Bowdon, Technical Communication and the Role of the Public Intellectual: A Community HIV-Prevention Case Study. M.F. Eble, L.L. Gaillet, Educating "Community Intellectuals": Rhetoric, Moral Philosophy, and Civic Engagement. REVIEWS: E. Johnson, Rhetorical Democracy: Discursive Practices of Civic Engagement. Gerard A. Hauser and Amy Grim. A.C.K. Hea, "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital." Robert D. Putnam and "Pedagogy and Political (Dis)Engagement." K. Edward Spiezio. N. Bacon, Service-Learning in Technical and Professional Communications. Melody Bowen and J. Blake Scott.
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