Sharing Our Intellectual Traces : Narrative Reflections from Administrators of Professional, Technical, and Scientific Communication Programs

• Autore: Bridgeford Tracy
• Pubblicazione: Amityville, : Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 2014
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Disciplina: 601.4
• Soggetto topico: Technology - Information services - Management
• Altri autori: KitalongKarla Saari WilliamsonBill
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Sharing our Intellectual Traces: Narrative Reflections from Administrators of Professional, Technical, and Scientific Communication Programs""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword: Understanding the Power of Narrative in Shaping a Field""; ""CHAPTER 1. Introduction: We Are the Stories We Tell""; ""CHAPTER 2. Tracing the Intellectual Trajectories of Professional/ Technical/Scientific Communication: A Roundtable Perspective from Seven CPTSC Past Presidents""; ""CHAPTER 3. Program Assessment: A Passion and Palimpsest"" ; ""CHAPTER 4. Establishing an Outcomes Statement for Technical Communication""""CHAPTER 5. A Tale of Trust and Techne: Building Relationships and Building Programs""; ""CHAPTER 6. Leaders Becoming Transformed""; ""CHAPTER 7. The Challenges of Offering a Technical Writing Program in a 2-Year College""; ""CHAPTER 8. Globalizing Technical Communication Programs: A Diachronic Perspective""; ""CHAPTER 9. Users, Not Solutions, First: Problem-Solving for Program Administrators""; ""CHAPTER 10. Intersections Between a Technical Communication Program and an Engineering Department"" ; ""CHAPTER 11. Expertise in Professional Communication as a Catalyst of WAC/WID Administration Success""""CHAPTER 12. Curricular Challenges of Emphasis Degrees in Technical and Professional Communication""; ""CHAPTER 13. Afterword: 40 Years of Stories from Technical Communication Program Administrators""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: Administrators of academic professional and technical communication (PTSC) programs have long relied upon lore--stories of what works--to understand and communicate about the work of program administration. Stories are interesting, telling, engaging, and necessary. But a discipline focused primarily on stories, especially the ephemeral stories narrated at conferences and deliberated at department meetings, usually suffice primarily to solve immediate problems and address day-to-day concerns and activities. This edited collection captures some of those stories and layers them with theoretical perspectives and reflection, to enhance their usefulness to the PTSC program administration community at large. Like the ephemeral stories PTSC program administrators are accustomed to, the stories told in this volume are set within specific institutional contexts that reflect specific institutional challenges. They emphasize the intellectual traces--the debts the authors owe to those who have informed and transformed their administrative work. In so doing, this collection creates another conversation--albeit a robust, diverse, and theoretically informed one--around which program leaders might define or redefine their roles and re-envision their administrative work as the rich, complex, intellectual engagement that we find it to be. This volume asks authors to move beyond a notion of administration as an activity based solely in institutional details and processes. In so doing, they emphasize theory as they share their reflections on core administrative processes and significant moments in the histories of their associated programs, thereby affording opportunities for critical examination in conjunction with practical advice.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sharing Our Intellectual Traces
• ISBN: 1-351-86465-3; 0-89503-872-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910964699003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II