Technical Communication for Environmental Action / Sean Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Sean, 1970-

Series:

SUNY series, Studies in scientific and technical communication

SUNY Series, Studies in Technical Communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication of technical information.

Communication in the environmental sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bronx : State University of New York Press, 2023.

Language Note:

eng

Summary:

This collection engages scholars and practicioners in a conversation about the ways that Technical Communication has contributed to pragmatic and democratic actions to address climate change.

Contents:

Introduction / Sean D. Williams

When the sound is frozen : extracting climate data from Inuit narratives / Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq

Boundary waters : deliberative experience design for environmental decision making / Daniel Card

In defense of a greenspace : students discover agency in the practice of community-engaged technical communication / Bob Hyland

Flood insurance rate maps as communicative sites of pragmatic environmental action / Daniel P. Richards

Collaborating for clean air : virtue ethics and the cultivation of transformational service-learning partnerships / Lauren E. Cagle and Roberta Burnes

The narrative of silent stakeholders : reframing local environmental communications to include global human impacts / Beth Shirley

Resilient farmland : the role of technical communicators / Sara B. Parks and Lee S. Tesdell

Writing for clients, writing for change : proposals, persuasion, and problem solving in the technical writing classroom / Monika A. Smith

Health in the shale fields : technical communication and environmental health risks / Barbara George

Participatory policy : enacting technical communication for a shared water future / Josephine Walwema

Rhino crash : teaching science, medical, and environmental writing for social action / Michelle Hall Kells

Epilogue: Right relation with the whole world : creating a richer polyvocality for environmental technical communication / Caroline Gottschalk Druschke.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

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Other Format:

Print version: Williams, Sean D. Technical Communication for Environmental Action

ISBN:

9781438491301

1438491301

OCLC:

1356009447

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access