Service-learning in Technical and Professional Communication
Service-Learning in Technical and Professional Communication by Melody Bowdon, published by Longman in 2003, is a comprehensive resource designed for both students and educators in the field of technical and professional communication. This first edition, comprising 416 pages, focuses on the integration of service-learning projects within academic settings and broader communities, emphasizing ethical deliberation and civic action.
Readers will find a structured approach that begins with foundational chapters outlining the authors’ service-learning methodology and providing a rhetorical toolbox for implementation. The book progresses through the stages of developing, executing, and evaluating service-learning projects, teaching essential rhetorical strategies, ethical considerations, and genre conventions. It also includes discussions on the cultural impacts of these projects, making it a valuable guide for both novice and experienced service-learning practitioners.
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Grounded in the practices of ethical deliberation and civic action, this text creates a resource for helping technical and professional communication students and teachers implement service-learning projects in campus and larger communities.
Designed for a wide-ranging audience, Service-Learning in Technical and Professional Communication address both advanced and beginning students and both veteran service-learning teachers and those trying it for the first time.
The text begins with three chapters that define and explain the authors’ approach to service-learning and develop a rhetorical toolbox for implementing this approach. The remainder of the book is loosely organized around the process of developing, executing, and evaluating service-learning projects. These “process” chapters teach rhetorical strategies, ethical concerns, genre conventions, and style principles in an integrated, contextualized way. Discussions of rhetoric and ethics are supplemented with heuristics for analyzing the larger cultural effects of service-learning projects.
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