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Signs Genres And Communities In Technical Communication
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Book Synopsis Signs, Genres, and Communities in Technical Communication by : M. Jimmie Killingsworth
Download or read book Signs, Genres, and Communities in Technical Communication written by M. Jimmie Killingsworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new text invites readers to step back from their busy professional lives and look at technical communication philosophically, to ask fundamental questions such as what does it mean to communicate? and how do language and graphics - the ""signs"" or ""tools"" of the technical communicator - relate to action in a technological world? Through this excursion in the theory of technical discourse, you will discover a fresh approach to reports, manuals, and proposals produced and consumed daily in business, government, and research organizations around the world. The authors examine familiar genres in two relatively new ways.
Book Synopsis Qualitative Research in Technical Communication by : James Conklin
Download or read book Qualitative Research in Technical Communication written by James Conklin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the explosive growth in qualitative research in recent years, this volume represents the first anthology to bring together a representative sample from this growing body of work, and comments on the reasons for the extraordinary interest in qualitative research. Contributors to the volume bring forward reports of significant, structured qualitative research into various aspects of technical communication practice, addressing the questions of what new insights researchers are generating about the working reality of today’s technical communicators, and how technical communicators are perceived and treated by managers and by colleagues from other disciplines. Including examples of qualitative methodologies—including ethnography, case study, focus groups, action research, grounded theory, and interview research— used by technical communicators to strengthen their practice, the result is a rich harmony of perspectives, as diverse as the field of technical communication itself. This book will be of interest to to students and academics seeking up-to-date information on current industry practices in technical communication, as well as to practitioners in technical and professional communication. The book will also serve as a text in undergraduate seminars and courses at the master’s level.
Download or read book Writing Genres written by Amy J Devitt and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008-07-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Writing Genres, Amy J. Devitt examines genre from rhetorical, social, linguistic, professional, and historical perspectives and explores genre's educational uses, making this volume the most comprehensive view of genre theory today. Writing Genres does not limit itself to literary genres or to ideas of genres as formal conventions but additionally provides a theoretical definition of genre as rhetorical, dynamic, and flexible, which allows scholars to examine the role of genres in academic, professional, and social communities. Writing Genres demonstrates how genres function within their communities rhetorically and socially, how they develop out of their contexts historically, how genres relate to other types of norms and standards in language, and how genres nonetheless enable creativity. Devitt also advocates a critical genre pedagogy based on these ideas and provides a rationale for first-year writing classes grounded in teaching antecedent genres.
Book Synopsis How to Write and Present Technical Information by : Charles H. Sides
Download or read book How to Write and Present Technical Information written by Charles H. Sides and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows professionals how to communicate effectively about technology in business and industry.
Book Synopsis Communication on and via Technology by : Annely Rothkegel
Download or read book Communication on and via Technology written by Annely Rothkegel and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interdependency of technology and communication presents theoreticians as well as practitioners with a wide range of problems. Among the topics discussed in this interdisciplinary volume are: technological knowledge in text and context in combination with cognitive and social conditions, knowledge transfer beyond languages and cultures, the influence of the world wide web on social communities.
Book Synopsis COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS, SECOND EDITION by : SHARMA, SANGEETA
Download or read book COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS, SECOND EDITION written by SHARMA, SANGEETA and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's fast-paced era of information technology, communicating effectively has become an indispensable skill sought after by organizations worldwide. Professionals who possess excellent communication skills are well-equipped to navigate the challenges of the modern professional world, where diverse paths like writing, speaking, reading, and listening converge. This all-encompassing, student-friendly textbook delves into the crucial aspects of technical communication, tailored specifically for students of science and engineering. Divided into two parts, this book provides a complete understanding of the essential skills required to thrive in the realm of technical communication. Part A of the text through in-depth exploration introduces students to the intricacies of drafting business documents, the significance of effective teamwork, and offers remedies to communication breakdown. Furthermore, a dedicated chapter on Advertising sheds light on the art of persuasive communication. Part B focuses on the collective and individual requirements of group communication. With a practical approach, it explores the intricacies of delivering impactful presentations, decoding non-verbal cues, mastering the art of speeches, excelling in interviews, and honing negotiation skills. These skills are essential for young professionals aiming to thrive in new challenges and excel in their careers. This captivating text, now in its Second Edition, features a brand new chapter, Technology in Communication. The chapter highlights the revolutionary role of technology in disseminating fast and efficient information through online platforms. In addition, it also forewarns the disadvantages of technology in communication. Overall, the content emphasizes the transformative role of technology in communication and the need for responsible and mindful usage to maximize its benefits. Primarily intended as a text for undergraduate students of engineering and science, this compact book is also of immense value to the students of business management. In addition, the text would be a handy reference for practicing professionals who wish to hone their communication skills for achieving better results and should prove extremely useful for those involved in everyday communication. TARGET AUDIENCE • B. Tech • MBA • PDGM/BBA
Book Synopsis Handbook of Research on Writing by : Charles Bazerman
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Writing written by Charles Bazerman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Research on Writing ventures to sum up inquiry over the last few decades on what we know about writing and the many ways we know it: How do people write? How do they learn to write and develop as writers? Under what conditions and for what purposes do people write? What resources and technologies do we use to write? How did our current forms and practices of writing emerge within social history? What impacts has writing had on society and the individual? What does it mean to be and to learn to be an active participant in contemporary systems of meaning? This cornerstone volume advances the field by aggregating the broad-ranging, interdisciplinary, multidimensional strands of writing research and bringing them together into a common intellectual space. Endeavoring to synthesize what has been learned about writing in all nations in recent decades, it reflects a wide scope of international research activity, with attention to writing at all levels of schooling and in all life situations. Chapter authors, all eminent researchers, come from disciplines as diverse as anthropology, archeology, typography, communication studies, linguistics, journalism, sociology, rhetoric, composition, law, medicine, education, history, and literacy studies. The Handbook’s 37 chapters are organized in five sections: *The History of Writing; *Writing in Society; *Writing in Schooling; *Writing and the Individual; *Writing as Text This volume, in summing up what is known about writing, deepens our experience and appreciation of writing—in ways that will make teachers better at teaching writing and all of its readers better as individual writers. It will be interesting and useful to scholars and researchers of writing, to anyone who teaches writing in any context at any level, and to all those who are just curious about writing.
Book Synopsis Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals by : Inger Lassen
Download or read book Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals written by Inger Lassen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals is written for an audience with a general interest in readability studies, linguistics and technical writing. With the main emphasis on technical manuals the book is primarily targeted at those who have a special interest in the design and use of utility texts and how these texts are received and understood by a multifaceted audience. Accessibility is not a new research area and many explanations have been offered over the past years as to why non-experts often have difficulties in comprehending texts written by technological experts. This book offers a new approach to accessibility studies by exploring not only style, but also attitudes to style, by asking text consumers which style they prefer for different parts of the manual. A key role is played by the Systemic Functional Linguistics' notion of grammatical metaphor, a stylistic choice that is commonly used in technical literature. Grammatical metaphor — although apparently obstructing the comprehension process of some readers — is a common element in the preferred style that separates the ‘insiders’ from the ‘outsiders’. An explanation of this rather surprising result is offered by resorting to Critical Discourse Analysis.
Book Synopsis Shaping Information by : Charles Kostelnick
Download or read book Shaping Information written by Charles Kostelnick and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging analysis, Charles Kostelnick and Michael Hassett demonstrate how visual language in professional communication--text design, data displays, illustrations--is shaped by conventional practices that are invented, codified, and modified by users in visual discourse communities.
Book Synopsis Written Communication across Cultures by : Yunxia Zhu
Download or read book Written Communication across Cultures written by Yunxia Zhu and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of ABC's award for Distinguished Publication for 2006 This book explores effective written communication across cultures both theoretically and practically. Specifically it conceptualizes cross-cultural genre study and compares English and Chinese business writing collected from Australia, New Zealand and China. It is also one of those inspired by contrastive rhetoric but has contributed innovatively and uniquely by incorporating research findings from genre analysis, in particular, the sociocognitive genre perspective into this cross-cultural study. On the one hand, the endeavor represents an in-depth theoretical exploration by considering not only discourse community and cognitive structuring, but also the deep semantics of genre and intertextuality, while broadening genre study by integrating insights from cross-cultural communication as well as the Chinese perspectives. On the other hand, the book also addresses pragmatic issues. As a particular feature, it solicits professional members’ intercultural viewpoints; thus confirming the shared social "stock of knowledge" employed in the culturally defined writing conventions. Last but not least, this book explores the implications for genre education and training, and develops an appropriate model for cross-cultural genre learning, which encourages learning through legitimate peripheral participation and intercultural learning in business organizations.
Book Synopsis The Politics of TESOL Education by : Vai Ramanathan
Download or read book The Politics of TESOL Education written by Vai Ramanathan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics by :
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 26924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. * The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field * An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles * The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition * Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach * Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing * Available in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects develop ELL2 includes: * c. 7,500,000 words * c. 11,000 pages * c. 3,000 articles * c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour * Supplementary audio, video and text files online * c. 3,500 glossary definitions * c. 39,000 references * Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations * List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc.) * Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists) * 200 language maps in print and online Also available online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com. The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics Ground-breaking in scope - wider than any predecessor An invaluable resource for researchers, academics, students and professionals in the fields of: linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, language acquisition, language pathology, cognitive science, sociology, the law, the media, medicine & computer science. The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field
Book Synopsis Writing: Texts, Processes and Practices by : Christopher N. Candlin
Download or read book Writing: Texts, Processes and Practices written by Christopher N. Candlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing: Texts, Processes and Practices offers an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to writing in a variety of academic and professional settings. The book is composed of a series of original research-based accounts by leading authorities from a range of disciplines. The papers are linked through a unifying perspective which emphasises the role of cultural and institutional practices in the construction and interpretation of written texts. This important new book integrates different approaches to text analysis, different perspectives on writing processes, and the different methodologies used to research written texts. Throughout,an explicit link is made between research and practice illustrated with reference to a number of case studies drawn from professional and classroom contexts. The book will be of considerable interest to those concerned with professional or academic writing and will be of particular value to students and lecturers in applied linguistics, communication studies, discourse analysis, and professional communications training. The contributors to this volume are: Robert J. Barrett Vijay K. Bhatia Christopher N. Candlin Yu-Ying Chang Sandra Gollin Ken Hyland Roz Ivanic Mary R. Lea Ian G. Malcolm John Milton Greg Myers Guenter A. Plum Brian Street John M. Swales Sue Weldon Patricia Wright
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition by : Theresa Enos
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition written by Theresa Enos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context by : Dwight Atkinson
Download or read book Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context written by Dwight Atkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes changing language & rhetoric of English-speaking scientists across the 17th-20th centuries. Of interest to scholars of rhetoric, composition, communication, & applied linguistics, as well as historians, sociolinguists, and education researchers
Book Synopsis Connecting People with Technology by : George Hayhoe
Download or read book Connecting People with Technology written by George Hayhoe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores five important areas where technology affects society, and suggests ways in which human communication can facilitate the use of that technology.Usability has become a foundational discipline in technical and professional communication that grows out of our rhetorical roots, which emphasize purpose and audience. As our appreciation of audience has grown beyond engineers and scientists to lay users of technology, our appreciation of the diversity of those audiences in terms of age, geography, and other factors has similarly expanded.We are also coming to grips with what Thomas Friedman calls the 'flat world,' a paradigm that influences how we communicate with members of other cultures and speakers of other languages. And because most of the flatteners are either technologies themselves or technology-driven, technical and professional communicators need to leverage these technologies to serve global audiences.Similarly, we are inundated with information about world crises involving health and safety issues. These crises are driven by the effects of terrorism, the aging population, HIV/AIDS, and both human-made and natural disasters. These issues are becoming more visible because they are literally matters of life and death. Furthermore, they are of special concern to audiences that technical and professional communicators have little experience targeting - the shapers of public policy, seniors, adolescents, and those affected by disaster.Biotechnology is another area that has provided new roles for technical and professional communicators. We are only beginning to understand how to communicate the science accurately without either deceiving or panicking our audience. We need to develop a more sophisticated understanding of how communication can shape reactions to biotechnology developments. Confronting this complex network of issues, we're challenged to fashion both our message and the audience's perceptions ethically.Finally, today's corporate environment is being shaped by technology and the global nature of business. Technical and professional communicators can play a role in capturing and managing knowledge, in using technology effectively in the virtual workplace, and in understanding how language shapes organizational culture.
Book Synopsis Other Floors, Other Voices by : John M. Swales
Download or read book Other Floors, Other Voices written by John M. Swales and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes this volume as a "textography" because it combines certain elements of both text analysis and ethnography. Through analysis of texts, textual forms, and systems of texts, it shows the lives, life commitments, and life projects of people deeply embedded in the literate culture of the university. The people examined work in a single building, but their textual lives are maintained in different times and spaces, measured by the dimensions of text production and text circulation in their fields of work. These domains of text time and space are to some degree differentiated by the three specialties that mark the three floors of a small building at a major research university--the ethnographic site of this journey into textual lives--computing, taxonomic botany, and English as a second language. This research site provides the opportunity to re-examine the concept of discourse community and to investigate the nature and origination of academic discourse from a new perspective. The author is a distinctive member of the applied linguistics and composition communities, an original stamped by the global village of language education in which he has lived his life, and revealed in his own autobiographical account embedded within this book. This book now reveals him as a person making text about how people are embedded in making their textual lives within the discursive landscapes their communities afford. In doing so, he shows not only his own love of language as a way of life, but also his appreciation of how all his subjects find their labors of love in the language they create. This book has been written to appeal to a general academic audience as well as to specialists in rhetoric, discourse analysis, and composition.
