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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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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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"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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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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Narrative-based writing for coherent technical documents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Narrative-based writing is a technique that was developed to address the lack of support for document coherence. The technique depends on the production of a story-like executive summary of the document called a DN (Document Narrative).
Peter Henderson   +3 more
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Writing Equipment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Manual of Roman Everyday Writing Volume 2: Writing Equipment is a detailed study of Roman writing equipment, offering a comprehensive, lavishly illustrated and much-needed survey of the material resources for the production of everyday written documents ...
Willi, Anna
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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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Collaborative reflection and trauma : narrative writing as a healing intervention

open access: yes, 2021
Narrative writing as a healing intervention involves the repeated recounting of a traumatic event. Research shows the benefits of narrative writing as an intervention for posttraumatic stress and the development of posttraumatic growth.
Denejkina, Anna (R19494), Joseph, Sue
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Writing in the Workplace: New Research Perspectives by Rachel Spilka

open access: yesDiscourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 1995
WRITING IN TI-IE WORKPLACE: New Research Perspectives provides a benchmark of research on workplace writing in the 1990s that complements Lee Odell and Dixie Goswami's earlier, ground-breaking collection, "Writing in Nonacademic Settings (1985).
Lilita Rodman
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