Bøger i Baywood's Technical Communications serien

These writings constitute a diverse and thematically coherent set of inquiries and cover topics such as cyber activism, digital dispositio, citizen and open-source journalism, broadband affordances, XML, digital resumes, avant garde performance art, best pedagogical practices, and intercultural communication between East and West, North and South.

The increasingly global nature of the World Wide Web presents new challenges and opportunities for technical communicators who must develop content for clients or colleagues from other cultures and in other nations

Traces the evolution of written forms of communication at Lukens Steel from 1810 to 1925. This volume offers an overview linking technical communication to literature and describing the historical context.

Examines the roles that texts serve as parts of an organizational cognitive infrastructure. This book reports on a study of the impact of two technologies (paper text and textual replay) on writing review.

Explores the development of internship experiences, creates an introduction to the topic of internships, and provides a foundation for college-corporation partnerships in professional education and training.

To establish that scientists should use metaphors to explain science to the public and need to be conscious of how metaphor can be useful to their research, this book examines the controversy over cloning and the lack of a metaphor to explain it to a public fearful of science's power.

A collection of essays that examines how practitioners can improve the acceptance of their documentation when communicating to cultures other than their own. These essays begin by examining the cross-cultural issues relating to quality in documentation. They then look at examples of common documents, analysing them from several perspectives.

An examination of the impact of the terrorist attack on the United States in terms of how it may alter academic and corporate research, as well as the sharing of information generated by that research, by international colleagues in technological fields.

Designed for use in academic programs in technical and professional communication and for communication professionals in the workplace, this work presents essays from contributors that offer multiple perspectives, and an introduction to some of the important issues publications.

Familiarizes readers with the theoretical basis and practical applications of the editing process. This book details the arrangement, style, delivery; and the objectives of editing - accuracy, clarity, propriety, and artistry.

A collection of essays that focuses on both how and why assessment serves as a key element in the teaching and practice of technical and professional communication. It offers teachers, students, scholars, and practitioners evidence of the increasingly valuable role of assessment in the field, as it supports and enriches our thinking and practice.

A collection of articles that delves into the world of content management systems.

Explores five areas where technology affects society, and suggests ways in which human communication can facilitate the use of that technology.

Provides the instructors of introductory technical communication courses with a set of resources for their classrooms.

A set of essays on the relationship between discourse and the many institutions within which people act.