Design discourse : composing and revising programs in professional and technical writing / edited by David Franke, Alex Reid, Anthony DiRenzo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Franke, David, 1960-

Reid, Alex, 1969-

DiRenzo, Anthony, 1960-

WAC Clearinghouse.

Open Textbook Library, distributor.

Series:

Perspectives on writing (Fort Collins, Colo.)

Open Textbook Library.

Perspectives on writing.

Open textbook library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

English language.

Academic writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Academic writing.

Technical writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Technical writing.

Writing centers--Administration.

Writing centers.

Technical writing--Study and teaching (Higher).

Academic writing--Study and teaching (Higher).

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher).

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 322 pages) : illustrations.

Distribution:

Minneapolis : Open Textbook Library.

Place of Publication:

Fort Collins, Colo. : The WAC Clearinghouse, 2010.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing addresses the complexities of developing professional and technical writing programs. The essays in the collection offer reflections on efforts to bridge two cultures - what the editors characterize as the "art and science of writing" - often by addressing explicitly the tensions between them. Design Discourse offers insights into the high-stakes decisions made by program designers as they seek to "function at the intersection of the practical and the abstract, the human and the technical."--Open Textbook Library.

Contents:

Composing. Great instauration: restoring professional and technical writing to the humanities / Anthony DiRenzo

Starts, false starts, and getting started: (mis)understanding the naming of a professional writing minor / Michael Knieval ... [et al.]

Composing a proposal for a professional/technical writing program / W. Gary Griswold

Disciplinary identities: professional writing, rhetorical studies, and rethinking "English" / Brent Henze, Wendy Sharer, and Janice Tovey

Revising. Smart growth of professional writing programs: controlling sprawl in departmental landscapes / Diana Ashe and Colleen A. Reilly

Curriculum, genre and resistance: revising identity in a professional writing community / David Franke

Composing and revising the professional writing program at Ohio Northern University: a case study / Jonathan Pitts

Minors, certificates, engineering. Certificate programs in technical writing: through sophistic eyes / Jim Nugent

Shippensburg University's technical/professional communications minor: a multidisciplinary approach / Carla Kungl and S. Dev Hathaway

Reinventing audience through distance / Jude Edminster and Andrew Mara

Introducing a technical writing communication course into a Canadian School of Engineering / Anne Parker

English and engineering, pedagogy and politics / Brian D. Ballentine

Futures. Third way: PTW and the liberal arts in the new knowledge society / Anthony DiRenzo

Write brain: professional writing in the post-knowledge economy / Alex Reid

Post-scripts by veteran program designers. Techné for citizens: service-learning conversation, and community / James Dubinsky

Models of professional writing/ technical writing administration: reflections of a serial administrator at Syracuse University / Carol Lipson.

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Other Format:

Print version: Design discourse

ISBN:

1602351678

9781602351677

OCLC:

607120399

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access