Assessment in Technical and Professional Communication

Herausgeber: Hundleby, Margaret; Allen, Jo

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays that focuses on both how and why assessment serves as a key element in the teaching and practice of technical and professional communication. It offers teachers, students, scholars, and practitioners evidence of the increasingly valuable role of assessment in the field, as it supports and enriches our thinking and practice

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9780415362825
• ISBN-10: 0415362822
• Artikelnr.: 49678706

Autorenporträt

Margaret Hundleby, Jo Allen

Inhaltsangabe

KNOWING WHERE WE ARE
CHAPTER 1
Assessment in Action: A Möbius Tale Chris M. Anson
CHAPTER 2
Assessing Technical Communication: A Conceptual History Norbert Elliot
ASSESSMENT IN THE WIDEST VIEW
CHAPTER 3
v Mapping Institutional Values and the Technical Communication Curriculum:
A Strategy for Grounding Assessment Jo Allen
CHAPTER 4
The Benefits and Challenges of Adopting a New Standpoint While Assessing
Technical Communication Programs: A Response to Jo Allen Paul V. Anderson
A ROLE FOR PORTFOLIOS IN ASSESSMENT
CHAPTER 5
Politics, Programmatic Self-Assessment, and the Challenge of Cultural
Change Kelli Cargile Cook and Mark Zachry
CHAPTER 6
The Road to Self-Assessment: Less-Traveled But Essential James M. Dubinsky
SITUATING ASSESSMENT IN DISCIPLINARY REQUIREMENTS
CHAPTER 7
Expanding the Role of Technical Communication Through Assessment: A Case
Presentation of ABET Assessment Michael Carter
CHAPTER 8
Beyond Denial: Assessment and Expanded Communication Instruction in
Engineering and Professional Programs Steven Youra
ASSESSING THE WORK OF GRADUATE STUDENTS
CHAPTER 9
Assessment of Graduate Programs in Technical Communication: A Relational
Model Nancy W. Coppola and Norbert Elliot
CHAPTER 10
Program Assessment, Strategic Modernism, and Professionalization Politics:
Complicating Coppola and Elliot's "Relational Model" Gerald Savage
TECHNOLOGY IN ASSESSMENT
CHAPTER 11
Assessing Professional Writing Programs Using Technology as a Site of
Praxis Jeffrey Jablonski and Ed Nagelhout
CHAPTER 12
Reconsidering the Idea of aWriting Program William Hart-Davidson
ASSESSMENT IN TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSESSING
INTERCULTURAL/ INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
CHAPTER 13
Assessment in an Intercultural Virtual Team Project: Building a Shared
Learning Culture Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Deborah C. Andrews
CHAPTER 14
Do Fish Know They Are Swimming in Water? Deborah S. Bosley
Afterword
The Ethical Role of the Technical Communicator in Assessment, Dialogue, and
the Centrality of Humanity Sam Dragga
Index