Technical Communication, Deliberative Rhetoric, and Environmental Discourse: Connections and Directions: 11 (Attw Contemporary Studies in Technical Communication) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567504817 ISBN 13: 9781567504811

Publisher: Praeger, 2000

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"All readers who are concerned about the environment effects of technology or who love plants and animals will find their sense of the complexity of the issues deepened....the book is intelligently put together...Including and celebrating so many perspectives and critical approaches, this book is itself an enactment of ideal environmental communication: a productive, caring "dialogic, dynamic discourse of many voices.""-Technical Communication

..."well worth the investment in reading the book. In my next technical writing course, whether basic or advanced, environmental communication will not only be included, but will be dealt with in a way that focuses the central problems and issues of the profession. And readings will include several essays from Coppola and Karis's collection."-Issues in Writing

?...well worth the investment in reading the book. In my next technical writing course, whether basic or advanced, environmental communication will not only be included, but will be dealt with in a way that focuses the central problems and issues of the profession. And readings will include several essays from Coppola and Karis's collection.?-Issues in Writing

?All readers who are concerned about the environment effects of technology or who love plants and animals will find their sense of the complexity of the issues deepened....the book is intelligently put together...Including and celebrating so many perspectives and critical approaches, this book is itself an enactment of ideal environmental communication: a productive, caring "dialogic, dynamic discourse of many voices."?-Technical Communication

?Technical Communication, Deliberative Rhetoric, and Enviornmental Discourse is a useful teaching tool for any upper-level rhetoric or composition theory course....[h]elps students realize the many ways technical communication is involved in the world and affects their lives. With a wide variety of articles, the bok demonstrates many different views current in the field of enviornmental writing. It attempts to reach the many different audiences involved in enviornmental writing, trying to help writers of enviornmental discourses realize their potential to ease tension in the conservation dialogue/?-Technical Communication Quarterly

.,."well worth the investment in reading the book. In my next technical writing course, whether basic or advanced, environmental communication will not only be included, but will be dealt with in a way that focuses the central problems and issues of the profession. And readings will include several essays from Coppola and Karis's collection."-Issues in Writing

"Technical Communication, Deliberative Rhetoric, and Enviornmental Discourse is a useful teaching tool for any upper-level rhetoric or composition theory course....[h]elps students realize the many ways technical communication is involved in the world and affects their lives. With a wide variety of articles, the bok demonstrates many different views current in the field of enviornmental writing. It attempts to reach the many different audiences involved in enviornmental writing, trying to help writers of enviornmental discourses realize their potential to ease tension in the conservation dialogue/"-Technical Communication Quarterly

About the Author

NANCY W. COPPOLA is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Master of Science program in Professional and Technical Communiation at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. In addition to publishing articles on environmental communication and pedagogy, she is co-author of Environmental Perservation and Pollution Prevention:Science and Humainties Perspectives (1997). BILL KARIS is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Technical Communications at Clarkson Univerisity. He has published in Rhetoric Review, Journal of Business and Technical Communications, Journal of Engineering Technology, Technical Communication, IEE Transactions on Professional Communication, and Technical Communication Quarterly, as well as a recent Ablex collection (Sebler,1997). He co-edited, with Jimmie Killingsworth,a special issue of CQ (Winter,1997) focusing on environmental discourse.

Edition details

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1567504817
• ISBN 13: 9781567504811
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 364
• Editor: Coppola Nancy W.