Jessica Weber Metzenroth

Building a Workplace Writing Center (eBook, PDF)

A Sustainable Solution and Practical Guide

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This practical resource provides guidance for writing professionals to sustainably tackle the organizational writing challenges of any professional environment. This guide is invaluable for professionals across industries and academia considering how to establish an embedded, sustainable, and cost-effective workplace writing center.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000563436
• Artikelnr.: 63616503

Autorenporträt

Jessica Weber Metzenroth has helped establish workplace writing centers in both the US and Southeast Asia. She founded and directs the Writing Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. She holds a PhD in Technical Communication and Rhetoric and has had her work and writings featured by Harvard Business Review, WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, and the edited collection How Stories Teach Us: Composition, Life Writing, and Blended Scholarship.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Welcome to the Writing Center 1. Throwing Open the Doors 2. A Look
Back at Writing Center History and a Look Ahead to New Frontiers Part 2:
Building the Workplace Writing Center 3. Pitching and Ensuring a Successful
Model 4. Mapping the Workplace 5. Determining Services 6. Branding and
Marketing Part 3: Measuring and Communicating Progress 7. Needs Assessment
8. Data Logs 9. Surveys 10. Pre-Test/Post-Test Quasi-Experiment Part 4:
Workplace Writing Center Professional Development 11. Identity Shifts from
an Academic Role 12. Education, Experience, and Professional Development
13. Giving Back Local, Going Global 14. Conclusion

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Part 1: Welcome to the Writing Center 1. Throwing Open the Doors 2. A Look Back at Writing Center History and a Look Ahead to New Frontiers Part 2: Building the Workplace Writing Center 3. Pitching and Ensuring a Successful Model 4. Mapping the Workplace 5. Determining Services 6. Branding and Marketing Part 3: Measuring and Communicating Progress 7. Needs Assessment 8. Data Logs 9. Surveys 10. Pre-Test/Post-Test Quasi-Experiment Part 4: Workplace Writing Center Professional Development 11. Identity Shifts from an Academic Role 12. Education, Experience, and Professional Development 13. Giving Back Local, Going Global 14. Conclusion

Rezensionen

"In most organizations, poor writing is like bad weather - everyone complains about it, but nobody does anything to fix it. Now there is a solution: build a writing center. Jessica Weber Metzenroth is the expert on how to do that, and this book is full of her wisdom. Read it and you'll learn how to fix the problem, instead of just whining about it."

- Josh Bernoff, bestselling author of Writing Without Bullshit and blogger at bernoff.com