1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462137303321

Titolo

Assessment in technical and professional communication / / edited by Margaret Hundleby, University of Toronto and Jo Allen, Widener University

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-351-84586-1

1-351-84585-3

1-315-22509-3

0-89503-655-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Baywood's technical communications series

Disciplina

601/.4

Soggetti

Communication of technical information

Technical writing - Study and teaching

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2010 by Baywood Publishing Company, Incorporated.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""CHAPTER 4 The Benefits and Challenges of Adopting a New Standpoint While Assessing Technical Communication Programs: A Response to Jo Allen""""A ROLE FOR PORTFOLIOS IN ASSESSMENT""; ""CHAPTER 5 Politics, Programmatic Self-Assessment, and the Challenge of Cultural Change""; ""CHAPTER 6 The Road to Self-Assessment: Less-Traveled But Essential""; ""SITUATING ASSESSMENT IN DISCIPLINARY REQUIREMENTS""; ""CHAPTER 7 Expanding the Role of Technical Communication Through Assessment: A Case Presentation of ABET Assessment""

""CHAPTER 8 Beyond Denial: Assessment and Expanded Communication Instruction in Engineering and Professional Programs""""ASSESSING THE WORK OF GRADUATE STUDENTS""; ""CHAPTER 9 Assessment of Graduate Programs in Technical Communication: A Relational Model""; ""CHAPTER 10 Program Assessment, Strategic Modernism, and Professionalization Politics: Complicating Coppola and Elliot�s “Relational Model�""; ""TECHNOLOGY IN ASSESSMENT""; ""CHAPTER 11 Assessing Professional Writing Programs Using Technology as a Site



of Praxis""; ""CHAPTER 12 Reconsidering the Idea of a Writing Program""

""ASSESSING INTERCULTURAL/ INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS""""CHAPTER 13 Assessment in an Intercultural Virtual Team Project: Building a Shared Learning Culture""; ""CHAPTER 14 Do Fish Know They Are Swimming in Water?""; ""Afterword The Ethical Role of the Technical Communicator in Assessment, Dialogue, and the Centrality of Humanity""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""Selected Titles from: Baywood�s Technical Communications Series""; ""Back Cover""

Sommario/riassunto

"This collection of essays focuses on both how and why assessment serves as a key element in the teaching and practice of technical and professional communication. The collection is organized to form a dual approach: on the one hand, it offers a landscape view of the activities involved in assessment - examining how it works at institutional, program, and classroom levels; on the other, it surveys the implications of using assessment for formulating, maintaining, and extending the teaching and practice of technical communication. The book offers teachers, students, scholars, and practitioners alike evidence of the increasingly valuable role of assessment in the field, as it supports and enriches our thinking and practice. No other volume has addressed the demands of and the expectations for assessment in technical communication. Consequently, the book has two key goals. The first is to be as inclusive as is feasible for its size, demonstrating the global operation of assessment in the field. For this reason, descriptions of assessment practice lead to examinations of some key feature of the landscape captured by the term 'technical communication'. The second goal is to retain the public and cooperative approach that has characterized technical communication from the beginning. To achieve this, the book represents a 'conversation', with contributors chosen from among practicing, highly active technical communication teachers and scholars; and the chapters set up pairs of opening statement and following response. The overriding purpose of the volume, therefore, is to invite the whole community into the conversation about assessment in technical communication."--Provided by publisher.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996647838803316

Autore

Grubbauer Monika

Titolo

Conflicts in Urban Future-Making : Governance, Institutions, and Transformative Change

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9783839474679

3839474671

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

ManganelliAlessandra

VolontLouis

ArndtMaria

Soggetti

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction to the volume -- Urban Future-Making as a Lens -- 2. Understanding conflicts in urban future-making -- 3. Understanding professional agency in urban future-making -- Contested Governance and Policy-Making -- 4. Mayors’ net-zero pledges at COP26 -- 5. Mapping conflicts of prioritization -- 6. Inclusive urban energy futures? -- 7. Towards the machine-readable city? -- Contrasting Cultures and Institutions -- 8. Mapping destabilization journeys in urban mobility systems -- 9. Contested mobilities and the role of conflict in making sustainable cities -- 10. Navigating conflictual cooperation -- 11. Uneven coastal geographies -- Grounding Conflicts in Everyday Practices -- 12. Mobilizing the meaning of greening in a conflicted city -- 13. Driving change? -- 14. Spotting tensions in urban greening experiments -- Appendix -- List of contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Under conditions of heightened uncertainty, cities face enormous challenges in responding to contemporary crises. The contributors to this volume explore the conflictual dynamics that arise when urban futures are imagined, negotiated, and materialized. Through the lens of urban future-making, they provide a timely analysis of the conflicts



that shape planning projects, architectural interventions, and new experiments in the built environment. Their analyses show how urban future-making is conditioned by conflicting governance arrangements, actor constellations, and power dynamics – offering rich insight into the critical role of professionals as key agents of urban transformation.