{"title":"Rhetoric of Place: Exploring Environmental Narratives and Everyday Spaces in Composition Classrooms","authors":"Steve P. Zwilling","doi":"10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00075","url":null,"abstract":"The following multi-modal assignment encourages first-year composition students to engage in an interactive exploration of everyday spaces, practice rhetorical analysis by investigating the rhetorical functions of space(s), and prompt students to record, analyze, and reflect on buildings’ physical design in their community and on campus by identifying specific goals. Students are given a chance to practice rhetorical analysis by inhabiting places they encounter beyond the classroom confines. The rhetoric of place often creates a heuristic framework for how we inhabit and study places. The focus on the physical environment owes a debt to scholarship on technical communication in environmental rhetorics. This scholarship helps enable the emergence of ecocomposition, which places ecological thinking and composition in dialogue with the ecological properties of written discourse and how ecologies, environments, locations, and places are discursively affected. The ultimate objective is for students to learn how rhetoric functions beyond verbal and written discourse and how it acclimates them to public spaces and social contexts.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"60 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":"128556744","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":"Anti-Racism, Linguistic Diversity, and Technical Editing","authors":"A. Hodges, T. Ponce","doi":"10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00013","url":null,"abstract":"To reflect the multilingual, diverse workplace of practicing technical editors, instructors of technical editing courses and modules have incorporated pedagogies that resist White mainstream English as the only standard for “correct” language in technical fields. Yet instructors may still wonder: How can we teach technical editing by and for “nonnative speakers of English” or international readers? How can we teach technical editing by and for Black technical communicators and speakers of other Englishes? How might technical editing instructors and practitioners engage with anti-racist and anti-linguistic bias goals? This short paper reports on the initial developments of an analytical framework for anti-racist technical editing textbooks and digital resources.","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":"133525097","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":"Does Higher Education Entrance Assessment in Academic Literacy Predict Success in Engineering Study?","authors":"R. Prince, Z. Simpson","doi":"10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Internationally, graduation rates in engineering programs are low. In America, fewer than 40% of students who enter an engineering qualification graduate in the minimum time. In South Africa, completion rates in minimum time are as low as 23% and continue to reflect historically racialized patterns. This paper investigates the predictive value of an Academic Literacy assessment that forms part of the South African National Benchmark Tests (NBT) for success in engineering study. The National Benchmark Tests attempt to assess the readiness of school leavers to cope with the demands of higher education. Performance on the academic literacy assessment was correlated with student success in engineering study. This was measured categorically: students’ performance was classified as either having graduated, continuing study or having dropped out. It is found that there is a correlation between performance on the Academic Literacy assessment scores and proficient bands and success in engineering study. This can inform the ways in which curriculum development and teaching and learning should be responsive to students admitted into engineering programs of study, both within South Africa and internationally.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"83 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":"126183373","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}
A. Duin, H. McKee, Alan M. Knowles, Isabel Pedersen, J. E. Porter
{"title":"Extended Abstract: Human-AI Teaming: Cases and Considerations for Professional Communicators","authors":"A. Duin, H. McKee, Alan M. Knowles, Isabel Pedersen, J. E. Porter","doi":"10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00040","url":null,"abstract":"Increasingly, professional communication is being produced by machines—that is, artificial intelligence (AI)-based systems that either assist human writers or that produce writing mostly on their own. As writing machines become more advanced, human professional communicators will be called on to partner with these machines as collaborators in various roles. This panel—consisting of three papers presented by five authors—considers some of the implications extending from this technology development: How is professional communication changing because of human-machine teaming (HMT)? What new skills and literacies will be required—from machines as well as humans—as we increasingly partner with machines to create professional communications?","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"14 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":"121147361","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":"Making Content Decisions between Open Source and Enterprise Versions of a Software Product","authors":"Arthur Berger, Shane O'Donnell","doi":"10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00063","url":null,"abstract":"This case study shares how a cloud software development startup maintains both enterprise and open source content for its products by presenting its product and content strategy as a rubric to guide documentation decisions. The rubric is situated within the context of the company’s business objectives as well as within the concerns of the field, such as content strategy, usability, accessibility, and discoverability. The rubric is divided into three parts: decisions about the content itself, content operations for lifecycle maintenance, and content access. Practitioners can use the rubric to inform their content strategy across enterprise and open source documentation. Academics might find the rubric helpful as a teaching tool for content strategy courses. Together, practitioners and academics can collaborate on further research to understand how content strategy decisions between enterprise and open source technologies impact the community’s ability to use and innovate on the technology, while aligning with an organization’s broader strategic goals.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"9 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132644652","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":"Formative Feedback Conferences in the Technical Communication Classroom","authors":"Sara Doan","doi":"10.1109/procomm53155.2022.00049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/procomm53155.2022.00049","url":null,"abstract":"Formative feedback conferences, meetings with small groups of students about their assignment drafts, have the potential to shape students’ approaches to revising their work, giving one another feedback, and preparing them for future writing beyond the technical communication classroom. This extended abstract details the advantages, procedures, and limitations of this pedagogical approach.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"55 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":"130901775","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":"UX Methods as Transformative Institutional Change: Stacey Abrams’ Georgia Campaign as a Formative Example","authors":"Emily L.W. Bowers, E. Harris, Ruby R. Mendoza","doi":"10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00090","url":null,"abstract":"The article contends with the idea that User Experience Design (UXD and UX) approaches can be used to create institutional and organizational change, not just within the digital realm to develop products and services for individuals. Incorporating the rhetorical methodology of institutional critique and adding intersectional complexity as a critical framework to drive our analysis, the authors examine Stacey Abrams’ 2016 gubernatorial campaign in Georgia and continued voting rights work as a formative example to showcase how creating civic change against Eurocentric tendencies happens at the interpersonal, structural, and institutional levels. The article’s purpose is to signify that UXD can create institutional change when informed by direct participation of people most impacted by the laws, policies, and legislation (products and services developed by particular bodies) and historic and embodied knowledge of systemic oppression, which happens most effectively when also providing accessible and tangible support to those who do not have access to resources people need to participate. The key hope of the authors in writing this piece is that it will help professional communicators and those outside communication fields consider ways UX methods can engage in transformative institutional change.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"131 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":"114663662","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}
L. Breuch, A. Duin, Daniel J. Card, Katlynne Davis
{"title":"Workshop: Forming Advisory Boards in Connection with Technical Communication Academic Programs","authors":"L. Breuch, A. Duin, Daniel J. Card, Katlynne Davis","doi":"10.1109/procomm53155.2022.00050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/procomm53155.2022.00050","url":null,"abstract":"This workshop will address suggestions and ideas for forming technical communication advisory boards connected to TPC academic programs. Topics will include identifying a purpose for the advisory board, articulating guiding principles for advisory boards, identifying potential members, conducting needs analysis, and identifying potential activities of the board. Scholarship and references on advisory boards will also be shared.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"77 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":"124099958","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":"Digital Community Moderation Values: Politics, News, and Hot Beverages on Reddit","authors":"Liza Potts, M. Trice","doi":"10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00028","url":null,"abstract":"Across social media, major concerns over content moderation, policy ethics, and community values have revealed a pressing need for guidelines and boundaries for digital communication. By examining several of reddit’s forums, we show how these values translate into rules that aid moderators in scaffolding and maintaining their communities. Considering such codes of ethics as part of our work in internet studies, we use these codes and guidelines to uncover how these models can support healthy communities and resist bad actors.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"10 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":"124261507","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":"Consultation Approaches for Large Scale Systems Adoption in Higher Education","authors":"D. Slattery","doi":"10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00021","url":null,"abstract":"In January 2021, the University of Limerick embarked on a project to identify a new Learning Management system (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) platform for the institution. Recent surveys, both internally and nationally, had found that staff and students were looking for greater LMS functionality, a more user-friendly learning experience, and greater integrations with other learning tools. Furthermore, the pandemic had increased the demands on the institution’s existing LMSs. This paper will outline the approach taken by the author (also the Project Lead for the first phase of the LMS Review) to establish working groups and consult with the various stakeholders across the campus community and external parties. It will conclude with an overview of some lessons learned from the consultation phase, which ended in June 2021, and how that phase has fed into subsequent phases.","PeriodicalId":286504,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"9 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":"116674611","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}