{"title":"Articulating and Challenging Sustainable Development in Undergraduate Engineering","authors":"Robert K. Irish, L. Romkey","doi":"10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00014","url":null,"abstract":"Being able to structure reasoned argument is fundamental to engaging in critical discourse, student learning, and academic preparation. This paper analyzes students’ approaches to constructing ethical arguments about sustainability. In a required Engineering & Society course, students were asked to evaluate possible approaches as ethical or unethical. This work-in-progress paper focuses on students’ conceptual understanding of course material and their rhetorical decisions in structuring argument. Through analysis of student papers and interviews, we discovered that students’ reasoning abilities were limited by a range of factors from their struggle to overcome personal bias to a limited understanding of sustainability. However, students also experimented with rhetorical strategies. We describe implications, including the need to improve our teaching both of ethical argumentation, and of the potentialities and pitfalls of sustainable development and alternatives.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"2016 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":"127283102","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: Reconfiguring the Relationship between Graduate Professional Writing and Rhetoric & Composition Programs—Innovations toward Transdisciplinary Integration","authors":"Sonia Arellano, J. Scott, Steffen Guenzel","doi":"10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00070","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on the conceptual framework of “transdisciplinary intra-action,” this panel discusses the integration of a Graduate Certificate in Professional Writing and a Master of Arts in Rhetoric & Composition. The panelists make a case for how such programmatic integration can benefit from a holistic approach and a flexible “integrative infrastructure” that includes intentionally reimagined and connected a) program missions, values, and learning outcomes; b) curricula and pedagogy, and; c) student advising and mentoring, and faculty support.","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":"128398844","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":"Building a Product Knowledge Base in the OneStop-Shop Way: a case study in a Multinational Technology Corporation","authors":"Bin Wang, Xinyue Wan","doi":"10.1109/procomm53155.2022.00017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/procomm53155.2022.00017","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we introduce the experience of building a Product Knowledge Base (PKB) in a Chinese multinational technology corporation to demonstrate how to organize technical information and manage product information for a better user experience. We firstly point out challenges in product information management such as information redundancy and information silos. Secondly, we share the experience of how to create, manage and optimize a PKB, and introduce four features that distinguish it in particular: “collection“, “fine granularity“, “dynamic“, and “intelligence“. Knowledge Graph, classified thesaurus, and subject thesaurus are utilized in organizing knowledge systems. We highlight the participation of knowledge sharing and knowledge realization in PKB operation and maintenance. The PKB has proven effective and efficient in practice, and the experience presented in this paper is generic and could be applied to other relevant domains.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"6 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":"127862700","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}