2018
DOI: 10.1177/1050651918780192
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Bridging Analysis and Action

Abstract: This article calls for recognition of ways in which feminisms have, do, and can inform social justice work in technical and professional communication (TPC)—even social justice work that is not explicitly feminist. The authors distill some areas of feminist TPC scholarship that are relevant to future social justice work: (a) epistemological contributions, ways of knowing and methods for discovering them and (b) reclamations of dominant topics, groundwork laid by feminist research on technology and science. The… Show more

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“…Critical frameworks are important components of social justice work, helping us to identify and avoid biases [4,5]. TPC is humanistic-when we write with or about historically marginalized groups, it is essential that we elevate and centralize those groups' experiences [1,6].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Critical frameworks are important components of social justice work, helping us to identify and avoid biases [4,5]. TPC is humanistic-when we write with or about historically marginalized groups, it is essential that we elevate and centralize those groups' experiences [1,6].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Using this case study approach to frame instruction about professional correspondence and communication, students learn to recognize the multiplicity of cultural, identity-shaping factors that they must account for in even the most rote and seemingly mundane genres. Genre instruction in the classroom then becomes social action (Miller, 1984) that reflects the end goal of the social justice turn identified by Petersen and Walton (2018).…”
Section: Case Studies and Genre Analysis In Tpc Coursesmentioning
confidence: 99%