{"title":"Examining Proposal Writing Courses to Bolster Student Skills that Apply to All Fundraising Rhetorical Situations","authors":"Mika Stepankiw","doi":"10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00035","url":null,"abstract":"Proposal writing is an important skill in professional communication as many nonprofits and academic institutions rely on funding from external organizations to carryout out their activities and research. An overview of recent literature suggests that there is a gap between how proposal writing is taught and how rhetorical strategies are used in real-world practice. While technical communication courses have begun including grant writing as a component, they have yet to fully account for the variety of fundraising writing that professional communicators are likely to encounter in the industry. With a growing number of philanthropic funding sources, technical communication students need to be well-versed in how to address this unique population. This paper provides an overview of current literature related to how proposal writing is taught. It further seeks to begin the conversation on how fundraising proposal writing can be incorporated into the academic environment to ensure that technical communicators have the skills and rhetorical strategies needed to succeed in the changing economic landscape.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115733647","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}
{"title":"Workshop: Designing Instructional Videos for the Use of Complex Software Systems in Manufacturing Companies","authors":"Lorena Niebuhr, Nina Rußkamp, E. Jakobs","doi":"10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00092","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the workshop is to raise awareness for the design of instructional videos for highly complex software systems. In the workshop, design aspects of instructional videos will be discussed using the example of teaching computer-aided design and manufacturing skills in small and medium-sized enterprises. Attendees will gain a holistic view of instructional videos and will be able to identify the need for action in practice and research. The workshop equally addresses researchers, educators, and practitioners with interest in the conception, production, and/or evaluation of videos for training purposes.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124257805","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}
Jonathan Balzotti, Jason K. McDonald, Lila Rice, Melissa Franklin
{"title":"Presenting in Virtual Spaces: Students’ Experience in a Simulated Playable Case Study","authors":"Jonathan Balzotti, Jason K. McDonald, Lila Rice, Melissa Franklin","doi":"10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00067","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we describe a preliminary study that explores the authenticity of a new brand of educational simulation. Below, we discuss how the authentic recreation of a presentation situation was experienced by students in an advanced professional communication class. During the simulation, students took the role of virtual city planners in a fictional mid-west town where they were asked to complete various tasks and interactions with different city planners and city board members. We used classroom observations along with pre- and post-test surveys to explore students’ acquisition of oral presentation skills and their use of isolated presentation competencies (Smith, 2010). Students and instructor responses to presenting in a simulated environment were positive. The opportunity to practice presenting to fictional stakeholders also included a disadvantage of pre-recorded questions for presenters to answer.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116878347","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}
{"title":"100% Say Writing Is Important to Their Work, But What Harm Does This Uncontroversial Finding Obscure? Early Results from a Survey of Scientists and Technical Professionals About Writing and Communication","authors":"S. Read","doi":"10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00008","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores preliminary results from an on-going IRB-approved online survey of workers in scientific, academic, technical and industrial contexts on their attitudes about and approaches to writing in their work. The survey collects samples of language use by scientists and technical professionals when talking about writing and communication in their work and careers in order to document how conventional, or regularized and non-controversial, their language choices are (i.e., “Successful writing is clear and concise”). Coding of survey responses for the construct of the Communication Metaphor reveals a multivalent complex of tacit beliefs, assumptions and learned practices that inform and maintain conventional language about professional and technical writing and communication. Documenting this multivalency is the first step in revealing, recognizing, rejecting, and replacing tacit, but harmful, language practices.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126724668","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}
{"title":"Justifying Innovations in a Start-up Accelerator Program: How Entrepreneurs Create Value through Pitch Discourse","authors":"Germán Varas, Omar Sabaj","doi":"10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00059","url":null,"abstract":"The relation between the linguistic features of value and start-up attributes has often been neglected. We examined how entrepreneurs create value through the business pitch by drawing on the identification of ‘logics of justification’, traditionally conceptualized as ‘orders of worth’. We describe the language of logics of justification and identify co-occurrence patterns among logics of justification, associations between logics of justification and industry sectors, and associations between logics and firm’s customer segment (b2b, b2c). This study provides unique insights about how the justification of innovations may draw on specific patterns of language depending on a venture’s features.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116004110","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}
Franklin Cordova-Buiza, Maria Fernanda Aguirre-Maldonado, Dorkas Angelica Alor-Rau
{"title":"The profile of the Apple brand consumer: electronic equipment and software in Lima-Peru","authors":"Franklin Cordova-Buiza, Maria Fernanda Aguirre-Maldonado, Dorkas Angelica Alor-Rau","doi":"10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00083","url":null,"abstract":"Apple is currently known for being one of the most representative brands in the electronic equipment and software market, and consumers choose it for its quality and innovation. In this sense, the main objective of this study is to determine the consumer profile of the Apple brand in the city of Lima, Peru. The research method was mixed, cross-sectional and nonexperimental, the quantitative information was for a sample of 384 Apple customers, aged between 18 and 35 years in Metropolitan Lima, the questionnaire was answered with Likert scale, the qualitative information with interviews with salespeople and marketing experts. It is concluded that demographic, psychographic and cultural factors determine the profile and behavior of the consumer, in addition to the fact that buyers stand out for their search for fashion and status.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122116773","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}
{"title":"User-centered Design (UCD) and Transcreation of Non-profit Communications in a Technical Communication Classroom","authors":"Jessica Lynn Campbell, David Katan","doi":"10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00087","url":null,"abstract":"Technical communication (TC) instruction is challenging given several dynamics including its interdisciplinary nature and that designing for usability requires a deep understanding of the target user and social and contextual factors that affect usability. Moreover, given that professional TC often involves international collaboration, teaching effective TC knowledge and skills becomes increasingly important. This presentation will describe the informally named, “Throw Them into the Fire” (TTITF) approach implemented in a TC classroom over the course of the Fall 2021 semester. The TTITF way of teaching TC involved work with a real-life client, UCD processes, and collaboration with international translation students to complete a TC project. The knowledge, assignments, activities, and interactions students had with each other, the client, and the translators will be discussed in detail providing academics and scholars an effective approach to teaching the messy, complicated, yet valuable TC principles and practices.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130348955","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}
{"title":"Extended Abstract: Student Technical Editors as Consultants for Engineering Capstone Design Teams: A Case Study","authors":"Russell Kirkscey, A. Attaluri","doi":"10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00043","url":null,"abstract":"Ensuring that engineering students meet professional communication skills requirements of the Accreditation Board for Engineering & Technology (ABET) remains a challenge for instructors. In response to this pedagogical context, this case study describes the conditions, outcomes, and implications of a project in which technical and professional communication (TPC) students worked as interns and technical editing consultants for a mechanical engineering instructor to support the communication needs of five undergraduate mechanical engineering teams during the final semester of their client-driven capstone design projects. Study results showed that the participants, including the instructor and internship advisor, found the project meaningful and important as workplace preparation that improved TPC competencies and met ABET standards for professional communication.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124474689","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}
{"title":"Extended Abstract: What Are Engineers Looking for in Professional Communication Training?","authors":"A. Chong","doi":"10.1109/procomm53155.2022.00044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/procomm53155.2022.00044","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of a survey conducted by IEEE ProComm, IEEE Education Activities, and IEEE Strategic Research to determine what engineers are looking for in professional communication training.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126005780","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}
Shelton Weech, H. Banat, Michelle McMullin, Aleksandra M. Swatek, Anuj Gupta, B. Dilger
{"title":"Assessing Equity and Inclusion in Research Teams through Constructive Distributed Work","authors":"Shelton Weech, H. Banat, Michelle McMullin, Aleksandra M. Swatek, Anuj Gupta, B. Dilger","doi":"10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00015","url":null,"abstract":"We present results from a pilot study assessing the efficacy of a project management and team building heuristic by analyzing a recent grant writing project completed by an interdisciplinary, interinstitutional research group. That heuristic, “constructive distributed work” (CDW), integrates core principles for professional development (developing rhetorical confidence, using a networked model of mentoring, and sustained attention to infrastructure) with team-specific best practices mapped to the functions of collaborative work. The threedimensional nature of CDW affords both consideration of overall team effectiveness and its impacts on equity and inclusion. The pilot study confirmed the role the research group’s team communication platform played in successful coordination, and demonstrated how the research group’s commitment to rhetorical listening helped keep their collaboration inclusive. This pilot study demonstrates the feasibility of this method for collecting data and coding, and helps to set parameters for future research. We conclude by summarizing possible changes to the CDW heuristic and research design refinements suggested by the pilot study.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132557129","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}