1st Edition

Technical Communication and the World Wide Web

Edited By Carol Lipson, Michael Day Copyright 2005
370 Pages
by Routledge

370 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

Over the past decade, the World Wide Web has dramatically changed the face of technical communication, but the teaching of writing has thus far altered very little to accommodate this rapidly changing context. Technical Communication and the World Wide Web offers substantial and broadly applicable strategies for teaching global communication issues affecting writing for the World Wide Web.... Read more
Contents: J. Johnson-Eilola, S. Selber, Foreword. C. Lipson, M. Day, Preface. C. Lipson, M. Day, Introduction. Part I: Implications for Curriculum in Degree and Service Programs. B. Hart-Davidson, Shaping Texts That Transform: Toward a Rhetoric of Objects, Relationships, and Views. G. Pullman, From Wordsmith to Object-Oriented Composing. M.J. Salvo, Teaching Information Architecture: Technical Communication in a Postmodern Context. L. Honeycutt, K. McGrane, Rhetoric and Information Architecture as Pedagogical Frameworks for Web Site Design. J.F. Barber, A New Web for the New Millennium. K. St. Amant, Online Ethos and Intercultural Technical Communication: How to Create Credible Messages for International Internet Audiences. T. Herrington, Linking Russia and the United States in Web Forums: The Global Classroom Project. G. Harootunian, Re-Designing Our Technical and Individual Screens: The New "Windows" Opened by Teaching in a Former Soviet Republic. L.J. Gurak, Ethics and Technical Communication in a Digital Age. J. Logie, Parsing Codes: Intellectual Property, Technical Communication, and the World Wide Web. J.E. Porter, The Chilling of Digital Information: Technical Communicators as Public Advocates. Part II: Issues and Suggestions for Pedagogy in Degree and Service Programs. S. Carliner, Integrating the Web Into Education for Technical Communication Majors: A Process-Oriented Approach. S. Loudermilk, Online? Is There a [Web] Text in This Class? R. Rice, C.C. Papper, Moving Beyond "Text Only" Pedagogy: Oral, Print, and Electronic Media in Technical Communication Assignments. S. Lang, Integrating the Web Into an Introductory Technical Communication Course. M.F. O'Sullivan, Writing for the Electronic Medium: A Course for the Times.

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Carol Lipson, Michael Day

"Editors Lipson and Day provide a nice compilation of chapters from a variety of authors concerning the pedagogy and practical application of communicating on the World Wide Web....it is easy to see how this one book can serve as a guide for repurposing course contents so faculty, students, and tomorrow's professional writers have practical experiences with the changing world of technical communication on the Web. Highly recommended."

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"Technical Communication and the World Wide Web is a compendium of articles from teaching professionals who use the World Wide Web in their curricula....a book that technical communicators should have in their resource library."
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