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Teaching Content Management in Technical and Professional Communication - Hardcover

Book 18 of 23: ATTW Series in Technical and Professional Communication
 
9780367181253: Teaching Content Management in Technical and Professional Communication
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0367181258 ISBN 13: 9780367181253
Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This collection offers a comprehensive overview of approaches to teaching the complex subject of content management.

The 12 chapters define and explain content management and its accompanying competencies, providing teaching examples in areas including content strategy, topic-based writing, usability studies, and social media. The book covers tasks associated with content management such as analyzing audiences and using information architecture languages including XML and DITA. It highlights the communal aspects of content management, focusing on the work of writing stewardship and project management, and the characteristics of content management in global contexts. It concludes with a look to the future and the forces that shape content management today. The editor situates the collection within a pedagogical exigency, providing sound instructional approaches to teaching content management from a rhetorical perspective.

The book is an essential resource for both instructors new to teaching technical and professional communication, and experienced instructors who are interested in upgrading their pedagogies to include content management.

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About the Author

Tracy Bridgeford is a professor of technical communication at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where she directs the Graduate Certificate in Technical Communication. In 2018, she published Teaching Professional and Technical Communication: A Practicum in a Book. She coedited Academy-Industry Relationships: Perspectives for Technical Communicators, Sharing Our Intellectual Traces: Narrative Reflections from Administrators of Professional, Technical, and Scientific Programs, and Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication. She contributed chapters to Editing in the Modern Classroom, Resources in Technical Communication: Outcomes and Approaches, and Teaching Writing with Computers: An Introduction.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367181258
ISBN 13 
9780367181253
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
248
Editor
Bridgeford Tracy