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Record Nr.

UNINA9910682574603321

Autore

Williams Sean <1970->

Titolo

Technical Communication for Environmental Action / / Sean Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bronx : , : State University of New York Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

1-4384-9130-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 pages)

Collana

SUNY Series, Studies in Technical Communication

Disciplina

333.7201/4

Soggetti

Communication of technical information

Communication in the environmental sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Sean D. Williams -- When the sound is frozen : extracting climate data from Inuit narratives / Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq -- Boundary waters : deliberative experience design for environmental decision making / Daniel Card -- In defense of a greenspace : students discover agency in the practice of community-engaged technical communication / Bob Hyland -- Flood insurance rate maps as communicative sites of pragmatic environmental action / Daniel P. Richards -- Collaborating for clean air : virtue ethics and the cultivation of transformational service-learning partnerships / Lauren E. Cagle and Roberta Burnes -- The narrative of silent stakeholders : reframing local environmental communications to include global human impacts / Beth Shirley -- Resilient farmland : the role of technical communicators / Sara B. Parks and Lee S. Tesdell -- Writing for clients, writing for change : proposals, persuasion, and problem solving in the technical writing classroom / Monika A. Smith -- Health in the shale fields : technical communication and environmental health risks / Barbara George -- Participatory policy : enacting technical communication for a shared water future / Josephine Walwema -- Rhino crash : teaching science, medical, and environmental writing for social action / Michelle Hall Kells -- Epilogue: Right relation with the whole world : creating a richer polyvocality for environmental technical communication / Caroline Gottschalk Druschke.



Sommario/riassunto

This collection engages scholars and practicioners in a conversation about the ways that Technical Communication has contributed to pragmatic and democratic actions to address climate change.