What's Civic About Technical Communication? Technical Communication and the Rhetoric of "Community"

Ornatowski, Cezar M.; Bekins, Linn K.

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“…Conceptualized as an inclusive approach, research and pedagogy that adopt community-based methods emphasize civic and social responsibility while enacting principles of collective action such as dialogue, reflection, and advocacy as means for improving and contributing to public life (Eble & Gaillet, 2004). As Ornatowski and Bekins (2004) noted, this focus on civic and community engagement allows TPC scholars to focus on "broader democratic and human concerns in order to open up the field to civic advocacy and action and make it [the field of TPC] responsive to progressive political agendas focused on individual and collective empowerment and emancipation" (p. 252). In this way, community and public engagement has the potential to encourage scholars' considerations of social justice as a humanistic approach and affords scholars the opportunity to integrate social justice into research and pedagogy within the field (Jones, 2016b).…”

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Disrupting the Past to Disrupt the Future: An Antenarrative of Technical Communication

Jones

Moore

Walton

2016

Technical Communication Quarterly

177

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This article presents an antenarrative of the field of technical and professional communication. Part methodology and part practice, an antenarrative allows the work of the field to be reseen, forges new paths forward, and emboldens the field's objectives to unabashedly embrace social justice and inclusivity as part of its core narrative. The authors present a heuristic that can usefully extend the pursuit of inclusivity in technical and professional communication.

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Disrupting the Past to Disrupt the Future: An Antenarrative of Technical Communication

Jones

Moore

Walton

2016

Technical Communication Quarterly

177

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“…(p. 10)Research studies of this nature allow technical communication scholars to engage in critical dialogue and influence action that supports social justice outcomes. Further, technical communicators can find a participatory action approach suitable for encouraging and supporting democratic ideals (Ornatowski & Benkins, 2004) and creating change in local communities and beyond through the engagement in textual activism (Bowden, 2004).…”

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The Technical Communicator as Advocate

Jones

2016

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

153

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This article argues for the need for a social justice approach to technical communication research and pedagogy. Given previous calls by scholars in technical and professional communication (TPC) for an attention to diversity, inclusion, and equality, the author examines the place and purpose of social justice in TPC and provides useful approaches for promoting a more genuine and critical interrogation of how work in TPC impacts the human experience.

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“…Rhetoric and writing scholars Ornatowski and Bekins (2004) caution that "community building" writing and speech used by particular people in strategic situations always involves selectively articulating various beliefs and values while excluding others. They demystify the notion that nonacademic non-profit or public communities are by definition any more virtuous, "civic," or harmonious than business and academic communities.…”

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The Roles of Writing In Knowledge Societies: Questions, Exigencies, and Implications for the Study and Teaching of Writing

Stärke-Meyerring

Par�

2011

Writing in Knowledge Societies

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Making Legal Knowledge in Global Digital Environments political issues that arise when one considers why one court might openly attribute another, and why another court might have reservations about doing so (as evidenced, for example, by the debate between Ginsberg and Scalia). These issues in the context of legal writing may inform how we understand remix writing, attribution, and intertextuality in more local settings, such as our writing classrooms.Using comparative techniques to teach differences and similarities between new texts and old texts, to examine the process of remix, to examine intertextuality in new contexts including legal forums, and to raise the issue of power and politics in the strategies of remix writing itself, gives students an awareness of how complicated digital writing might be from a legal standpoint (see also Yancey, 2009). In gaining increased awareness of these issues, it is generative for composition teachers to explore judicial opinions using the tools that they always have-examining rhetorical turns taken by judges. Such explorations provide opportunities to examine the power of writing.Copyright law and fair use/fair dealing are important to writing teachers and their students in the digital age because these legal concepts shape knowledge-making practices (Rife, 2007). Copyright law, law that deals specifically with writing, shapes our classroom practices as well as how (and whether) field knowledge is constructed, whether we acknowledge this or not (Durack, 2006;Westbrook, 2006).Copyright law is important to writing teachers and researchers because such law attempts to control the process and product with which we are most concerned: writing. For educators, fair dealing/use is crucial in order to teach and in order to encourage student learning. It follows then that copyright should be taught in writing classes, and along this trajectory, it will also be productive to examine the law itself as writing, and how the law-as-knowledge is constructed by writing, thus illuminating the power that can be achieved through the remix, creation, and circulation of texts such as judicial opinions, in global contexts.

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What's Civic About Technical Communication? Technical Communication and the Rhetoric of "Community"

Cited by 23 publications

References 3 publications

Disrupting the Past to Disrupt the Future: An Antenarrative of Technical Communication

Disrupting the Past to Disrupt the Future: An Antenarrative of Technical Communication

The Technical Communicator as Advocate

The Roles of Writing In Knowledge Societies: Questions, Exigencies, and Implications for the Study and Teaching of Writing

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