Sharing Our Intellectual Traces : Narrative Reflections from Administrators of Professional, Technical, and Scientific Communication Programs.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (238 pages)
Intro -- Sharing our Intellectual Traces: Narrative Reflections from Administrators of Professional, Technical, and Scientific Communication Programs -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword: Understanding the Power of Narrative in Shaping a Field -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction: We Are the Stories We Tell -- CHAPTER 2. Tracing the Intellectual Trajectories of Professional/ Technical/Scientific Communication: A Roundtable Perspective from Seven CPTSC Past Presidents -- CHAPTER 3. Program Assessment: A Passion and Palimpsest -- CHAPTER 4. Establishing an Outcomes Statement for Technical Communication -- CHAPTER 5. A Tale of Trust and Techne: Building Relationships and Building Programs -- CHAPTER 6. Leaders Becoming Transformed -- CHAPTER 7. The Challenges of Offering a Technical Writing Program in a 2-Year College -- CHAPTER 8. Globalizing Technical Communication Programs: A Diachronic Perspective -- CHAPTER 9. Users, Not Solutions, First: Problem-Solving for Program Administrators -- CHAPTER 10. Intersections Between a Technical Communication Program and an Engineering Department -- CHAPTER 11. Expertise in Professional Communication as a Catalyst of WAC/WID Administration Success -- CHAPTER 12. Curricular Challenges of Emphasis Degrees in Technical and Professional Communication -- CHAPTER 13. Afterword: 40 Years of Stories from Technical Communication Program Administrators -- Contributors -- Index.
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Communication of technical information -- Management. Technology -- Information services -- Management. Science -- Information services -- Management. Information resources management.