Assembling Critical Components: A Framework for Sustaining Technical and Professional Communication最新文献

Chapter 4: �Visualize a Triangle.� What�s Professional About Professional Communication? 第四章:想象一个三角形。什么是专业的专业沟通?

Assembling Critical Components: A Framework for Sustaining Technical and Professional Communication Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.37514/tpc-b.2022.1381.2.04

Brenton D. Faber

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Chapter 5: Procedural Knowledge and Discourse in Technical Communication: Easy as 1, 2, 3? 第五章:技术交际中的程序性知识与语篇:简单如1、2、3?

Assembling Critical Components: A Framework for Sustaining Technical and Professional Communication Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.37514/tpc-b.2022.1381.2.05

M. Hovde

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Chapter 3: Mapping Technical Communication as a Field: A Co-Citation Network Analysis of Graduate-Level Syllabi 第三章:技术传播作为一个领域的映射:研究生课程大纲的共引网络分析

Assembling Critical Components: A Framework for Sustaining Technical and Professional Communication Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.37514/tpc-b.2022.1381.2.03

M. Faris, G. Wilson

{"title":"Chapter 3: Mapping Technical Communication as a Field: A Co-Citation Network Analysis of Graduate-Level Syllabi","authors":"M. Faris, G. Wilson","doi":"10.37514/tpc-b.2022.1381.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/tpc-b.2022.1381.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"Echoing their earlier 2001 commentary, Johndan Johnson-Eilola and Stuart A. Selber (2004) wrote in the introduction of Central Works in Technical Communication that technical communication must develop “a coherent body of disciplinary knowledge” in order to become a mature discipline and profession (p. xxvii). We revisit the question of the field’s coherence and maturity, providing an update on Elizabeth Overman Smith’s (2000a, 2004) citation analyses of the field in which she provided a set of “points of reference.” We might look to such an identifiable body of core texts as an argument for coherence, as core texts are essential to defining a discipline. This chapter provides a co-citation network analysis of texts assigned in 60 graduate syllabi for courses on the foundations of technical communication. We use social network and citation analysis tools to identify 82 core texts that we argue constitute “a coherent body of disciplinary knowledge” and signal adequate maturity in our field to move past our disciplinary anxiety of inadequacy and underdevelopment.","PeriodicalId":176047,"journal":{"name":"Assembling Critical Components: A Framework for Sustaining Technical and Professional Communication","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128547430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Chapter 9: A Critique of Disability and Accessibility Research in Technical Communication Through the Models of Emancipatory Disability Research Paradigm and Participatory Scholarship 第九章:通过解放式残疾研究范式和参与式学术模式批判技术传播中的残疾和无障碍研究

Assembling Critical Components: A Framework for Sustaining Technical and Professional Communication Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.37514/tpc-b.2022.1381.2.09

Sushil K. Oswal, Zsuzsanna B. Palmer

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Chapter 8: New Ways of Reading: Making Sense of Complex Biomedical Writing Using Existing Guidelines 第8章:新的阅读方式:利用现有指南理解复杂的生物医学写作

Assembling Critical Components: A Framework for Sustaining Technical and Professional Communication Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.37514/tpc-b.2022.1381.2.08

L. DeTora

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Chapter 1: What Are We Really Teaching? Revisiting Technical and Professional Communication�s Pedagogical Training 第一章:我们到底在教什么?技术与专业传播学教学培训再认识

Assembling Critical Components: A Framework for Sustaining Technical and Professional Communication Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.37514/tpc-b.2022.1381.2.01

Sara Doan

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Chapter 7: Applied Rhetoric as Disciplinary Umbrella: Community, Connections, and Identity 第七章:作为学科保护伞的应用修辞学:共同体、联系与认同

Assembling Critical Components: A Framework for Sustaining Technical and Professional Communication Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.37514/tpc-b.2022.1381.2.07

J. Veltsos, M. Sharp, Jacob D. Rawlins, Ashley Patriarca, Rebecca Pope-Ruark

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Introduction: Promoting a Sustainable Collective Identity for Technical and Professional Communication 简介:促进技术和专业交流的可持续集体认同

Assembling Critical Components: A Framework for Sustaining Technical and Professional Communication Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.37514/tpc-b.2022.1381.1.3

Lisa Melon�on, J. Schreiber

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Chapter 6: Technical Communication Reimagined Through a Socio-Technical Problem-Solving Lens 第6章:通过社会技术问题解决镜头重新想象的技术沟通

Assembling Critical Components: A Framework for Sustaining Technical and Professional Communication Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.37514/tpc-b.2022.1381.2.06

M. Albers

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Chapter 2: The Ship of Theseus: Change Over Time in Topics of Technical Communication Research Abstracts 第二章:忒修斯之船:技术传播研究摘要主题的变迁

Assembling Critical Components: A Framework for Sustaining Technical and Professional Communication Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.37514/tpc-b.2022.1381.2.02

Stephen Carradini

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