Tuning to Place: Using Photos to Better Understand Problems in Technical Communication Classes

IF 1.8 2区 文学 Q3 BUSINESS
Erin Brock Carlson, Trinity C. Overmyer
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Abstract

This article highlights the role of place in understanding problems, specifically within community-engaged projects in upper-level technical and professional communication courses. Drawing on a year-long participant-generated imagery study with students, instructors, and community partners, the authors argue that photographic research is effective in helping participants and researchers tune to place. Taking photos offers opportunities for documentation, individual interpretation, and collaborative reflection, resulting in a deeper, more nuanced sense of place. Ultimately, this article demonstrates how a greater awareness of place, cultivated through reflecting on visual evidence, enhances engagement projects and helps technical communicators address complex problems.
调整位置:使用照片更好地理解技术交流课程中的问题
本文强调了地点在理解问题中的作用,特别是在高级技术和专业交流课程中社区参与的项目中。通过与学生、教师和社区合作伙伴进行为期一年的参与者生成的图像研究,作者认为,摄影研究可以有效地帮助参与者和研究人员调整位置。拍摄照片提供了记录、个人解释和协作反思的机会,从而产生更深刻、更细致入微的地方感。最后,本文演示了如何通过对视觉证据的反思培养更强的地点意识,从而增强项目的参与性,并帮助技术交流人员解决复杂问题。
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CiteScore
5.10
自引率
18.20%
发文量
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期刊介绍: JBTC is a refereed journal that provides a forum for discussion of communication practices, problems, and trends in business, professional, scientific, and governmental fields. As such, JBTC offers opportunities for bridging dichotomies that have traditionally existed in professional communication journals between business and technical communication and between industrial and academic audiences. Because JBTC is designed to disseminate knowledge that can lead to improved communication practices in both academe and industry, the journal favors research that will inform professional communicators in both sectors. However, articles addressing one sector or the other will also be considered.
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