{"title":"Deciphering Nested Literacies: A Case Study of Allosaurus Fragilis at the Smithsonian’s Deep Time Exhibit","authors":"L. DeTora","doi":"10.1080/10572252.2022.2146756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2022.2146756","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The author proposes a model for reading material characterized by “nested” literacies to decipher complex information where literacy operates in enmeshed and unpredictable ways. A case study of a nesting Allosaurus fragilis illustrates how deciphering multiple interacting literacies can identify areas needing technical communication intervention. In this context, multiple literacies include the usual reconstruction of Allosaurus fragilis in museum displays, the public discourses surrounding the nesting Allosaurus, and the associated scientific literature.","PeriodicalId":45536,"journal":{"name":"Technical Communication Quarterly","volume":"32 1","pages":"364 - 380"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49038208","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":"Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis for Technical Communication Research","authors":"G. E. Agbozo","doi":"10.1080/10572252.2022.2144950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2022.2144950","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT I propose Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) as an approach for understanding the discursive and material implications of technical documents in distant sites. I provide a historical vignette of MCDA and exemplify how technical and professional communication (TPC) researchers can critically engage with distant sites through MCDA by analyzing materials about GhanaPostGPS, a geolocation technology. I conclude by discussing limitations of MCDA – access to archives – and propose the creation of crowdsourced technical documentation archives.","PeriodicalId":45536,"journal":{"name":"Technical Communication Quarterly","volume":"32 1","pages":"381 - 394"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41772697","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":"Historicizing Power and Legitimacy After the Social Justice Turn: Resisting Narcissistic Tendencies","authors":"Cecilia D. Shelton, Sarah Warren-Riley","doi":"10.1080/10572252.2022.2141898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2022.2141898","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As a field committed to solving problems, technical and professional communication (TPC) seems well positioned to engage the challenges that come with social justice work intellectually and respond with practical solutions. In this article, the authors argue that power and legitimacy are critical terms that can propel our social justice work, if we can recast them in our disciplinary history and ultimately renegotiate them in the trajectories of our disciplinary futures.","PeriodicalId":45536,"journal":{"name":"Technical Communication Quarterly","volume":"32 1","pages":"313 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43566506","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":"Instructional Design Pedagogy in Technical and Professional Communication","authors":"J. Tham","doi":"10.1080/10572252.2022.2130991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2022.2130991","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigates how instructional design manifests in TPC pedagogies and where educators draw resources from. As TPC expands into areas in which instructional design traditionally governs, scholars need to discern how TPC distinguishes its specialty while providing training to support instructional design practices. Through textbook and syllabus analysis, coupled with instructor interviews, this study reports findings about instructional design pedagogy within TPC based on the themes gathered from the instructors’ experiences and existing resources.","PeriodicalId":45536,"journal":{"name":"Technical Communication Quarterly","volume":"32 1","pages":"327 - 346"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43443004","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":"Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need","authors":"Rachael Jordan","doi":"10.1080/10572252.2022.2130671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2022.2130671","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Technical Communication Quarterly (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2023)","PeriodicalId":45536,"journal":{"name":"Technical Communication Quarterly","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138530131","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 Professional and Technical Communication: A Practicum in a Book","authors":"M. Faris","doi":"10.1080/10572252.2022.2130670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2022.2130670","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45536,"journal":{"name":"Technical Communication Quarterly","volume":"32 1","pages":"212 - 214"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44831604","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":"Violent Exceptions: Children’s Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics","authors":"L. Novak","doi":"10.1080/10572252.2022.2125261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2022.2125261","url":null,"abstract":"Chock’s work is imperative for TPC designers to read and engage. For TPC instructors interested in using a design justice orientation in their courses, the section on pedagogies gives concrete examples of how to use design justice in teaching. For those involved in community-engaged work, the design justice framework becomes both a useful heuristic and practical guide in these spaces. For those TPC scholars studying online spaces or digital technologies, the narratives, values, and sites sections give ample ideas, concrete actions, theory, and foundational research behind this design justice lens. What the social justice turn in TPC (Jones et. al., 2016; Walton, Moore, & Jones, 2019) and design justice efforts are, in part, asking us to do is bring tacit knowledge to the forefront, to make explicit how technical documents, infrastructure, and technological design privilege and benefit certain users while oppressing or disenfranchising others, and to pay more attention to how what we create is not neutral. Costanza-Chock deftly and expertly does just that.","PeriodicalId":45536,"journal":{"name":"Technical Communication Quarterly","volume":"17 2","pages":"116 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41260193","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":"Working to Resonate: Rhetorical Mapping of Disciplinary Stances about Technology, Risk, and the Brain","authors":"K. Lambrecht","doi":"10.1080/10572252.2022.2100484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2022.2100484","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Our largest multidisciplinary problems outpace disciplinary training designed to reinforce boundaries. Using an interdisciplinary conversation about adolescent brain imaging, I argue that disciplinary stances (interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary) operate like rhetorical stases, helping diagnose where conversations build or diverge among experts. Because what constitutes interdisciplinarity is contested, mapping rhetorical features of each disciplinary stance stabilizes definitional debates by grounding interactions in specific discursive practices and offers technical communicators ways to facilitate and participate in stronger crossdisciplinary communication.","PeriodicalId":45536,"journal":{"name":"Technical Communication Quarterly","volume":"32 1","pages":"196 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43805663","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":"Effective Teaching of Technical Communication: Theory, Practice, and Application","authors":"Jacob Buller-Young","doi":"10.1080/10572252.2022.2100677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2022.2100677","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Technical Communication Quarterly (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2022)","PeriodicalId":45536,"journal":{"name":"Technical Communication Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138530110","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}