This cutting-edge collection of essays outlines foundational principles of a range of methodologies in technical communication, reflecting on the process of importing and employing these methodologies into technical communication research. Written by noted scholars in the field and presenting a wide range of research methods, the book combines theory and practice in a way that will prove invaluable to technical communicators and beginning scholars alike.
Addressing the explosive growth in qualitative research in recent years, this volume represents the first anthology to bring together a representative sample from this growing body of work, and comments on the reasons for the extraordinary ...
This practical volume provides a thorough introduction to conducting and critically reading research in technical communication, complete with exemplars of research articles for study.
Research in Technical Communication
This practical text offers a research-based account of the technical communication profession and its practice, outlining emergent touchpoints of this fast-changing field while highlighting its diversity.
The book is structured in four parts, offering an overview of the field, situating it historically and culturally, reviewing various theoretical approaches to technical communication, and examining how the field can be advanced by drawing ...
A comprehensive guide to planning, conducting, analyzing, and reporting research for technical communication. From tried-and-true interviewing methods to the latest electronic research techniques, technical communication experts Lynnette Porter and William...
Critical Power Tools
Stephen Doheny-Farina shows that the technical and commercial processes of turning technologies into products are, in significant ways, communication processes.
The first volume of its kind, Key Theoretical Frameworks links the theoretical with the pedagogical in order to articulate, use, and assess social justice frameworks for designing and teaching courses in technical communication.
From millwrights to shipwrights to the twenty - first century : Historical considerations of American technical communication . Cresskill , NJ : Hampton . Carey , Matthew . ( 1792 , May ) . Editorial . American Museum or Universal ...