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Author: Ann Hill Duin ,
Craig J. Hansen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.750kg
ISBN: 9780805816280
ISBN 10: 0805816283
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 01 November 1995
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
,
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""...the authors contribute some quite strong essays, with several ground breaking pieces."" —TCQ Reviews ""...offers a collection of essays that develop insights into a wide variety of nonacademic writing situations."" —College, Composition and Communication ""...provides a useful overview of the navigation skills needed to present information and interact with others in corporate settings..."" —Technical Communication ""The revolutionary character of Duin and Hansen's volume is that it finds a group of authors who are willing to question the very academic/non-academic distinction that has thus far kept technical communication suppressed. The contributors use high-powered academic theories to discuss workplace writing and literacy, and practices from the workplace to understand classroom behavior....The articles are, at the very least, provocative, useful for class discussion....As a director of a technical communication program, I have longed for a volume like this, one that could be used as an advanced undergraduate or graduate anthology helping students understand the possibilities of technical communication as an intellectual pursuit. I think this volume will be seen as a 'breakthrough' or 'coming of age' for technical communication in the 90s..."" —David Kaufer Carnegie Mellon University"
...the authors contribute some quite strong essays, with several ground breaking pieces. -TCQ Reviews ...offers a collection of essays that develop insights into a wide variety of nonacademic writing situations. -College, Composition and Communication ...provides a useful overview of the navigation skills needed to present information and interact with others in corporate settings... -Technical Communication The revolutionary character of Duin and Hansen's volume is that it finds a group of authors who are willing to question the very academic/non-academic distinction that has thus far kept technical communication suppressed. The contributors use high-powered academic theories to discuss workplace writing and literacy, and practices from the workplace to understand classroom behavior....The articles are, at the very least, provocative, useful for class discussion....As a director of a technical communication program, I have longed for a volume like this, one that could be used as an advanced undergraduate or graduate anthology helping students understand the possibilities of technical communication as an intellectual pursuit. I think this volume will be seen as a 'breakthrough' or 'coming of age' for technical communication in the 90s... -David Kaufer Carnegie Mellon University
