Technical Communication and the World Wide Web [Paperback]

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 Weboffers substantial and broadly applicable strategies for teaching global communication issues affecting writing for the World Wide Web.

Editors Carol Lipson and Michael Day have brought together an exceptional group of experienced and well-known teacher-scholars to develop this unique volume addressing technical communication education. The chapters here focus specifically on curriculum issues and the teaching of technical writing for the World Wide Web, contributing a blend of theory and practice in proposing changes in curriculum and pedagogy. Contributors offer classroom examples that teachers at all levels of experience can adapt for their own classes. The volume provides comprehensive coverage of the technical communication curriculum, from the two-year level to the graduate level; from service courses to degree programs.

This volume is an important and indispensable resource for technical writing educators, and it will serve as an essential reference for curriculum and pedagogy development in technical communication programs.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. &ll£5