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1.
Technical Communication Quarterly
Volume 2, Issue 1, 1993
Community, collaboration, and the rhetorical triangle
DOI:
10.1080/10572259309364524
Nancy J. Allen
pages 63-74
Special Issue: Collaboration
Although “community”; is an important concept for writing, writers have been unclear about how a sense
of community relates to the writing process or to the documents produced. This study reports a
comparison of several technical reports showing the influences of a writer's identification with a
community on features of the resulting document. Features most affected were personal and community
references within the document, writer's stance toward the reader, and definition of the rhetorical problem.
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Volume 13, Issue 3, 2004
What's Civic About Technical Communication? Technical Communication and the Rhetoric of
"Community"
DOI:
10.1207/s15427625tcq1303_2
Cezar M. Ornatowski & Linn K. Bekins
pages 251-269
Although the concept of community has been advanced in technical communication as a moral reference
point for civic rhetorical action, this concept is typically used in romantic, redemptive, and essentializing
ways. This article argues for a radical and symbolic/rhetorical view of community, regarding it a
discursive construct purposefully invoked by technical writers for strategic reasons.
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Volume 13, Issue 3, 2004
Educating "Community Intellectuals": Rhetoric, Moral Philosophy, and Civic Engagement
DOI:
10.1207/s15427625tcq1303_7
Michelle F. Eble & Lynee Lewis Gaillet
pages 341-354
This article encourages technical and professional communication programs to take on the challenge of
educating students to become "community intellectuals." The notion of educating future professionals for
a career needs to be reconsidered in light of both current research concerning civic rhetoric and past
practices in moral humanism courses. The triumvirate of rhetoric, ethics, and moral philosophy provides
an effective foundation for reconfiguring existing pedagogy in the field and offers insights for nurturing
community intellectuals.
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Volume 8, Issue 3, 1999
Special Issue: Redefining the Technical Communication Service Course
Setting the discourse community: Tasks and assessment for the new technical communication service
course
DOI:
10.1080/10572259909364666
Nancy W. Coppola
pages 249-267
This article argues for a social perspective of the new technical communication service course, a
conclusion supported by several premises: the technical communication profession wants and needs
accountability, accountability is demonstrated by evaluation, assessment requires that we define literacy,
evaluating technical communication literacy requires portfolio evaluation, portfolio assessment supports
the social perspective of learning, and the social construction concepts imply teaching strategies. The
argument proceeds from a case study that demonstrates reliability, stability, and validity in its technical
communication service course assessment, tasks, and instructor community. This article demonstrates that
portfolios can help us both conceptualize and evaluate the new technical communication service course.
5.
Volume 13, Issue 2, 2004
The Impact of the Internet and Digital Technologies on Teaching and Research in Technical
Communication
DOI:
10.1207/s15427625tcq1302_4
Laura J. Gurak & Ann Hill Duin
pages 187-198
Technical communication practices have been changed dramatically by the increasingly ubiquitous nature
of digital technologies. Yet, while those who work in the profession have been living through this
dramatic change, our academic discipline has been moving at a slower pace, at times appearing quite
unsure about how to proceed. This article focuses on the following three areas of opportunity for change
in our discipline in relation to digital technologies: access and expectations, scholarship and community
building, and accountability and partnering.
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Technical Communication Quarterly
Volume 14, Issue 3, 2005
Digital Rhetoric: Toward an Integrated Theory
DOI:
10.1207/s15427625tcq1403_10
James P. Zappen
pages 319-325
This article surveys the literature on digital rhetoric, which encompasses a wide range of issues, including
novel strategies of self-expression and collaboration, the characteristics, affordances, and constraints of
the new digital media, and the formation of identities and communities in digital spaces. It notes the
current disparate nature of the field and calls for an integrated theory of digital rhetoric that charts new
directions for rhetorical studies in general and the rhetoric of science and technology in particular.
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Technical Communication Quarterly
Volume 5, Issue 2, 1996
Deepening the Responsibility: A Social Epistemic Approach to the Ethics of Professional and Technical
Writing
DOI:
10.1207/s15427625tcq0502_11
Robert J. Affeldt
pages 207-219
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Technical Communication Quarterly
Volume 20, Issue 3, 2011
Technological Literacy as Network Building
DOI:
10.1080/10572252.2011.578239
Jason Swarts
pages 274-302
Following recent work to advocate a strongly social understanding of technological literacy, this article
considers how networking technologies are reshaping our understanding of the social. In this context,
technological literacy can be understood as a process of constructing the networks in which literate action
is defined. I explore the role of technological literacy as a force of network building accomplished
through a mechanism of translation. From the comments of experienced technical communicators, I make
observations about how technical communicators are taught to be technologically literate.