Resources in Technical Communication Outcomes and Approaches [Paperback]

Provides the instructors of introductory technical communication courses with a set of resources for their classrooms.

SECTION 1: Focus on Rhetorical Understanding

Chapter 1: Using Client-Based Writing to Teach Problem Solving Art Young and Summer Smith Taylor
Outcome: Students will be able to understand the value of writing as a problem-solving activity and learn to solve problems using communication.

Chapter 2: Technical Reports as Rhetorical Practice Jim Kalmbach
Outcome: Students will conceptualize reports as collections of rhetorical practices and improvisational strategies. Given a specific report template or format, they will construct a document that respects that template while also respecting their material and their rhetorical purposes.

Chapter 3: Using Multiple-Source Research to Create Persuasive Communication Jennifer Shepperd
Outcome: Students will understand the value of conducting both primary, experientially-based research and secondary-source research as means for constructing rhetorically situated, persuasive communication.

Chapter 4: Using Design Approaches to Help Students Develop Engaging and Effective Materials that Teach Scientific and Technical Concepts Anne Francis Wysocki
Outcome: Students will understand how and why to use design approaches in the development of technical and scientific communications and will be able to use different modalities rhetorically in developing communications.

Chapter 5: Copyright Law and Fair Use Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning Strategies for Technical Communication Courses Michael Moore
Outcome: Students will be able to identify contemporary contexts and issues in copyright and fair use, and be able to articulate those contexts and issues for multiple professional audiences

SECTION 2: Focus on Socio-Cultural Understanding

Chapter 6: Preparing Students for SlãÊ