{"title":"Interrogating Normalizing Pedagogies, Policies, and Practices in Professional Writing Through Disability Studies","authors":"K. Bennett","doi":"10.1109/ProComm48883.2020.00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm48883.2020.00011","url":null,"abstract":"Technical and professional communication (TPC) often acts as a normalizing technology in relation to disability by attempting to include those with disabilities through their assimilation into normative structures. To resist such tendencies and promote genuine inclusivity, TPC instructors should integrate disability studies (DS) into their course content and pedagogical practices. This paper offers a theoretical DS framework and insights from four student case studies from a TPC course to illustrate the way in which DS can facilitate the critical examination of normative TPC documentation practices and promote new ones that empower a wider range of bodies and minds.","PeriodicalId":311057,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133884791","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":"ProComm 2020 Commentary","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/procomm48883.2020.00001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/procomm48883.2020.00001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311057,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126387297","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":"Creating Rhetorical Complexity: Using Popular Science Articles to Teach Abstract Writing","authors":"Crista Mohammed, C. Radix","doi":"10.1109/ProComm48883.2020.00028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm48883.2020.00028","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes a communication intensive intervention which centers on a must-pass, in-course assessment. Students were asked to read technical content, found in third-party popular science magazines, for the purposes of writing an abstract. The abstract-writing assignment is a complex reading-writing task, as students were required to read critically; internalize content; and produce prose that meets the expectations of the discourse community. The student was required to take on a ‘new’ writing persona—the microprocessor researcher, identifying and replacing the conversational, idiomatic and sometimes subjective language of the magazine article with impersonal, succinct, factual writing. This work-in-progress presents excerpts from student writing. Excerpts are both exemplary, showing how students negotiated the rhetorical demands of the exercise; and weak, suggesting that the writing scenario is indeed complex and that there is need for additional writing scaffolds.","PeriodicalId":311057,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129285703","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: STEAM Communication in the Third Space: Perspectives From a Graduate Professional Development Program","authors":"K. Homar","doi":"10.1109/ProComm48883.2020.00035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm48883.2020.00035","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the potential of graduate professional development programs for multimodal STEAM communication training.","PeriodicalId":311057,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128265171","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":"Teaching Metaphors to Scientists: A Mixed Methods Approach","authors":"M. J. Mccarthy","doi":"10.1109/ProComm48883.2020.00014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm48883.2020.00014","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching STEAM students from the perspective of technical and professional communication presents an opening for diverse pedagogical strategies to help develop more well-rounded STEAM students. The strategy discussed in the following article utilizes Conceptual Metaphor Theory in the classroom to help students learn to ground their research through experiences that are relatable to wider audiences. Lakoff and Johnson discuss at length that good and potent metaphors and, by extension, communication are grounded in experiential frameworks. Using experience as a starting point for teaching STEAM students as well as Technical and Professional Communication students is one of the ways we can develop better scientific communication. In addition to this entry point, the methods in this project take a more quantifiable conceptual approach to research in order to help legitimize the study of language on a very technical level. These techniques can be taught in a writing classroom as well as engineering and science writing classrooms to produce critical analysis that blends STEAM with writing in interesting ways.","PeriodicalId":311057,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126526204","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":"ProComm 2020 Breaker Page","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/procomm48883.2020.00003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/procomm48883.2020.00003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311057,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132668781","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 to Expect When You Are Learning Data Visualization: A Textual Analysis of Course Syllabi","authors":"Yeqing Kong","doi":"10.1109/ProComm48883.2020.00042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm48883.2020.00042","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the content coverage of introductory data visualization courses in U.S. higher education. I conducted a corpus-assisted textual analysis of 20 publicly available course syllabi. The findings suggest that existing courses predominantly focus on the practical experience of producing visualization design (e.g., tools, techniques, methods), but rarely devote time to broader sociocultural factors and ethical issues involved in the process. I concluded by suggesting that technical and professional communication can illuminate the pedagogical approaches to data visualization through its ethical, humanistic, and contextual concerns.","PeriodicalId":311057,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"44 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134086011","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":"Rhetoric of Public Crisis: Constructing Communication Networks in Transcultural Digital Contexts","authors":"Lin Dong","doi":"10.1109/ProComm48883.2020.00018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm48883.2020.00018","url":null,"abstract":"Pubic crises that target multinational corporations are becoming increasingly common in their emerging markets. The current crisis communication scholarship is inadequate to attend to this matter because of its theoretical, contextual, and methodological problems. This study proposes a new framework for public crisis communication. It defines public crisis as a rhetorical contest among networked stakeholders in a risk society with globalized disorder. Based on Manuel Castells’ network society theory and Kenneth Burke’s dramatism, this study establishes a duo-layered framework to mathematically build the semantic networks of public crisis communication among stakeholders and also to rhetorically interpret the networks. By theorizing crisis communication within a network ecosystem, it breaks the traditional, institution-centric paradigm and promises a more scientific analysis of the complexities and dynamics of public crisis.","PeriodicalId":311057,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131610816","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":"ProComm 2020 TOC","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/procomm48883.2020.00004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/procomm48883.2020.00004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311057,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"237 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132056941","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":"What Is “Eating Right” at Work? User Experience With an Employee Wellness Program","authors":"D. Stambler","doi":"10.1109/ProComm48883.2020.00025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm48883.2020.00025","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses preliminary findings from a user experience study with an Employee Wellness Program (EWP) at a large midwestern university. The EWP is a salient site for studying three types of workplace technical communication: internal program planning documentation; employee-facing promotional materials; and the use of mobile digital technologies for self-tracking and reporting of employee data. Three questions drive this study: (1) How does the EWP describe and enact eating-related wellness practices? (2) How do users experience eating-related promotional technical communications? (3) How do users experience mobile digital technology use related to eating habits within the EWP? Drawing from a larger project, this paper discusses findings from two stages of research: first, a qualitative grounded theory analysis of meeting minutes and promotional materials; and second, a survey of employees focused on user experience with EWP discourse and digital technologies. The EWP facilitates examination of how, as an audience, employees experience and are constructed by employer-driven health-related programming. Preliminary results show that while most employees find the EWP generally beneficial, many also find it invasive, hard to access, and unfriendly to users.","PeriodicalId":311057,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132678729","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}