Exploding Technical Communication - Workplace Literacy Hierarchies and Their Implications for Literacy

Zusammenfassung Within the framework of New Literacy Studies, Dirk Remley presents a historical study of how technical communication practices at a World War II arsenal sponsored literacy within the community in which it operated from 1940 to 1960 and contemporary implications of similar forms of sponsorship. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments CHAPTER 1. Introduction CHAPTER 2. Methodology and Issues in Historical Research CHAPTER 3. Historical Context CHAPTER 4. Training Within Industry: Sponsored Multimodal Technical Communication CHAPTER 5. Training Practices, the Accident, and Sponsorship Implications CHAPTER 6. Other Literacies at Work CHAPTER 7. Literacy in the Community and Home CHAPTER 8. Current Applications of Training Within Industry: Continued Sponsorship of Technical Communication CHAPTER 9. Workplace Communication and Implications of Sponsorship References Index

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• Authors: Remley Dirk, Remley Sides Dirk, Dirk Remley, Dirk Sides Remley, Charles Sides, Charles Dirk Sides, Charles H. Sides
• Publisher: Baywood pub co
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2014
• EAN: 9780895038890
• ISBN: 978-0-89503-889-0
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Baywood's Technical Communications Series; Baywood's Technical Communications; Baywood's Technical Communications
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics