Design discourse
Subtitle: composing and revising programs in professional and technical writing
By: edited by David Franke, Alex Reid, Anthony DiRenzo.
Contributors: Franke, David, 1960-; Reid, Alex, 1969-; DiRenzo, Anthony, 1960-
Publisher: Parlor Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: West Lafayette, Ind
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781602351653; 9781602351660; 9781602351677
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States; Academic writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States; Technical writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States; Writing centers -- Administration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Composing. The great instauration: restoring professional and technical writing to the humanities / Anthony DiRenzo; title: Starts, false starts, and getting started: (mis)understanding the naming of a professional writing minor / Michael Knieval ... [et al.]; title: Composing a proposal for a professional/technical writing program / W. Gary Griswold; title: Disciplinary identities: professional writing, rhetorical studies, and rethinking "English" / Brent Henze, Wendy Sharer, and Janice Tovey; title: Revising. Smart growth of professional writing programs: controlling sprawl in departmental landscapes / Diana Ashe and Colleen A. Reilly; title: Curriculum, genre and resistance: revising identity in a professional writing community / David Franke; title: Composing and revising the professional writing program at Ohio Northern University: a case study / Jonathan Pitts; title: Minors, certificates, engineering. Certificate programs in technical writing: through sophistic eyes / Jim Nugent; title: Shippensburg University's technical/professional communications minor: a multidisciplinary approach / Carla Kungl and S. Dev Hathaway; title: Reinventing audience through distance / Jude Edminster and Andrew Mara; title: Introducing a technical writing communication course into a Canadian School of Engineering / Anne Parker; title: English and engineering, pedagogy and politics / Brian D. Ballentine; title: Futures. The third way: PTW and the liberal arts in the new knowledge society / Anthony DiRenzo; title: The write brain: professional writing in the post-knowledge economy / Alex Reid; title: Post-scripts by veteran program designers. A techn' for citizens: service-learning conversation, and community / James Dubinsky; title: Models of professional writing/ technical writing administration: reflections of a serial administrator at Syracuse University / Carol Lipson.