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Technical Writing

open access: yesDiscourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 1982
This article does nothing to advance the leading edge of system documentation. With luck, however, it may be useful to a few people.
Richard M. Davis
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The Alchemy of Sound: The Power of Spoken Language in a Very Visual World [PDF]

open access: yesAthens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, 2016
In our highly visual world, spoken language is often neglected as a tool that can contribute much to students’ linguistic competence. By privileging textual literacy over oral literacy, schools may be neglecting a dimension of language that students ...
Lucy Bednar
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"The One Who Knows the Tricks Wins the Day": Cultivating Mētis in an Undergraduate, Mixed-major Professional Writing Course

open access: yesPrompt, 2019
This assignment demonstrates how writing instructors can cultivate students' mētis, a flexible and adaptive way of thinking, by requiring participation in naturalistic rhetorical situations that arise outside the classroom.
Hilary Sarat-St. Peter
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Revising the Faculty Manual: The Client Project in Your Backyard

open access: yesPrompt, 2018
This client project is a culminating assignment in an upper-level professional writing course designed to help students understand the nature of audience-based writing in an unfamiliar writing context.
Heather Lettner-Rust
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Writing for Nonprofits in a Professionally-Oriented Institution: Using Rhetorical Genre Studies to Teach Flexibility

open access: yesPrompt, 2019
Teaching rhetorical flexibility within a nonprofit environment to professionally-oriented students can be challenging because the seemingly transactional genres of nonprofit communication, such as grant applications, do not appear to invite improvisation.
Kathryn J. Gindlesparger
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Using eService-Learning to Practice Technical Writing Skills for Emerging Nonprofit Professionals

open access: yesJournal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership, 2019
Undergraduate students entering the nonprofit sector receive theoretical information on working in nonprofits but may need practical skills. Universities can assist in developing these practical skills through service-learning opportunities.
D. Bharath
semanticscholar   +1 more source

IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

open access: yes, 2023
The Synthesis Report (SYR) is a stand-alone synthesis of the most policy-relevant evidence from the scientific, technical, and socio-economic literature assessed in the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
K. Calvin   +84 more
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Social Dynamics of AI Support in Creative Writing

open access: yesInternational Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023
Recently, large language models have made huge advances in generating coherent, creative text. While much research focuses on how users can interact with language models, less work considers the social-technical gap that this technology poses.
Katy Ilonka Gero   +2 more
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Initial Validation of a Technical Writing Rubric for Engineering Design

open access: yesInt. J. Eng. Pedagog., 2018
Engineering design serves as the capstone experience of most undergraduate engineering programs. One of the key elements of the engineering design process is the compilation of results obtained into a technical report that can be shared and distributed ...
C. Bodnar, J. Kadlowec
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Le Penseur meets L'Entrepreneur: Pushing the Envelope of Ethnography in Business Writing Research

open access: yesDiscourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 1995
Although ethnography holds much promise for the furtherance of epistemological pursuits in business writing research, its traditional practices and procedures can prove to be limiting for the investigator. This paper examines the impetus underlying three
Deborah Begoray
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