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Informationen zum Autor Margaret Hundleby, Jo Allen Klappentext A collection of essays that focuses on both how and why assessment serves as a key element in the teaching and practice of technical and professional communication. It offers teachers, students, scholars, and practitioners evidence of the increasingly valuable role of assessment in the field, as it supports and enriches our thinking and practice. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays that focuses on both how and why assessment serves as a key element in the teaching and practice of technical and professional communication. It offers teachers, students, scholars, and practitioners evidence of the increasingly valuable role of assessment in the field, as it supports and enriches our thinking and practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis KNOWING WHERE WE ARE CHAPTER 1 Assessment in Action: A Möbius Tale Chris M. Anson CHAPTER 2 Assessing Technical Communication: A Conceptual History Norbert Elliot ASSESSMENT IN THE WIDEST VIEW CHAPTER 3 v Mapping Institutional Values and the Technical Communication Curriculum: A Strategy for Grounding Assessment Jo Allen CHAPTER 4 The Benefits and Challenges of Adopting a New Standpoint While Assessing Technical Communication Programs: A Response to Jo Allen Paul V. Anderson A ROLE FOR PORTFOLIOS IN ASSESSMENT CHAPTER 5 Politics, Programmatic Self-Assessment, and the Challenge of Cultural Change Kelli Cargile Cook and Mark Zachry CHAPTER 6 The Road to Self-Assessment: Less-Traveled But Essential James M. Dubinsky SITUATING ASSESSMENT IN DISCIPLINARY REQUIREMENTS CHAPTER 7 Expanding the Role of Technical Communication Through Assessment: A Case Presentation of ABET Assessment Michael Carter CHAPTER 8 Beyond Denial: Assessment and Expanded Communication Instruction in Engineering and Professional Programs Steven Youra ASSESSING THE WORK OF GRADUATE STUDENTS CHAPTER 9 Assessment of Graduate Programs in Technical Communication: A Relational Model Nancy W. Coppola and Norbert Elliot CHAPTER 10 Program Assessment, Strategic Modernism, and Professionalization Politics: Complicating Coppola and Elliot’s “Relational Model” Gerald Savage TECHNOLOGY IN ASSESSMENT CHAPTER 11 Assessing Professional Writing Programs Using Technology as a Site of Praxis Jeffrey Jablonski and Ed Nagelhout CHAPTER 12 Reconsidering the Idea of aWriting Program William Hart-Davidson ASSESSMENT IN TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSESSING INTERCULTURAL/ INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS CHAPTER 13 Assessment in an Intercultural Virtual Team Project: Building a Shared Learning Culture Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Deborah C. Andrews CHAPTER 14 Do Fish Know They Are Swimming in Water? Deborah S. Bosley Afterword The Ethical Role of the Technical Communicator in Assessment, Dialogue, and the Centrality of Humanity Sam Dragga Index ...
