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Assessment in technical and professional communication /

"This collection of essays focuses on both how and why assessment serves as a key element in the teaching and practice of technical and professional communication. The collection is organized to form a dual approach: on the one hand, it offers a landscape view of the activities involved in asse...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Hundleby, Margaret N., 1940- (Author), Allen, Jo, 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub. Company, 2010.
Series:Baywood's technical communications series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The assessment landscape in technical and professional communication : evolutionary thinking and practice in an emerging imperative Margaret Hundleby and Jo Allen
  • Assessment in action : a Möbius tale / Chris M. Anson
  • Assessing technical communication : a conceptual history / Norbert Elliot
  • Mapping institutional values and the technical communication curriculum : a strategy for grounding assessment
  • The benefits and challenges of adopting a new standpoint while assessing technical communication programs : a response to Jo Allen / Paul V. Anderson
  • Politics, programmatic self-assessment, and the challenge of cultural change / Kelli Cargile Cook and Mark Zachry
  • The road to self-assessment : less-traveled but essential / James M. Dubinsky
  • Expanding the role of technical communication through assessment : a case presentation of ABET assessment / Michael Carter
  • Beyond denial : assessment and expanded communication instruction in engineering and professional programs / Steven Youra
  • Assessment of graduate programs in technical communication : a relational model / Nancy W. Coppola and Norbert Elliot
  • Program assessment, strategic modernism, and professionalization politics : complicating Coppola and Elliot's "relational model" / Gerald Savage
  • Assessing professional writing programs using technology as a site of praxis / Jeffrey Jablonski and Ed Nagelhout
  • Reconsidering the idea of a writing program / William Hart-Davidson
  • Assessment in an intercultural virtual team project : building a shared learning culture / Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Deborah C. Andrews
  • Do fish know they are swimming in water? / Deborah S. Bosley
  • The ethical role of the technical communicator in assessment, dialogue, and the centrality of humanity / Sam Dragga.