Remley Dirk, Charles Sides

Exploding Technical Communication

Workplace Literacy Hierarchies and Their Implications for Literacy Sponsorship

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Produktbeschreibung

Within the framework of New Literacy Studies, Dirk Remley presents a historical study of how technical communication practices at a World War II arsenal sponsored literacy within the community in which it operated from 1940 to 1960 and contemporary implications of similar forms of sponsorship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2014
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9780895038906
• ISBN-10: 0895038900
• Artikelnr.: 48209450

Autorenporträt

Dirk Remley has taught business writing and technical writing courses for over 20 years at Kent State University, where he also earned a PhD in rhetoric and composition. His publications pertain to literacy practices and writing pedagogies, particularly those connected to workplace communication. He has published work in the Community Literacy Journal, Across the Disciplines, Computers and Composition Online, Computers and Composition, and Writing and Pedagogy, in addition to multiple handbook chapters. He has also made presentations at numerous national conferences.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
CHAPTER 1. Introduction
CHAPTER 2. Methodology and Issues in Historical Research
CHAPTER 3. Historical Context
CHAPTER 4. Training Within Industry: Sponsored Multimodal Technical
Communication
CHAPTER 5. Training Practices, the Accident, and Sponsorship Implications
CHAPTER 6. Other Literacies at Work
CHAPTER 7. Literacy in the Community and Home
CHAPTER 8. Current Applications of Training Within Industry: Continued
Sponsorship of Technical Communication
CHAPTER 9. Workplace Communication and Implications of Sponsorship
References
Index