Viewpoints
Viewpoints are engaging short analysis of published original research of interest to or in the field of technical and professional communication. The Viewpoint helps to elevate the key lessons for Technical and Professional Communication practitioners working in the field.
Your Assignment on Empathy: How Service Learning Serves Communities.
When teaching important topics like sexual violence prevention, many of the organizations we interact with seek outside groups to teach sexual violence prevention techniques like risk reduction and bystander programs
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Rise Up Technical Communicators
In writing The Technical Communicator as Advocate: Integrating a Social Justice Approach in Technical Communication, Natasha N. Jones challenges the field of technical and professional communication and its respective practice.
Envisioning the Antenarrative Approach with TPC
In Disrupting the Past to Disrupt the Future: An Antenarrative of Technical Communication, authors Natasha N. Jones, Kristen R. Moore, and Rebecca Walton explore the antenarrative methodology that was introduced
Understanding How Psychology can Help Technical Communicators
Active learning promotes problem solving, critical thinking, and discussions of ideas. It can be a crucial aspect of being a technical communicator because it benefits both the technical communicator and
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Could Employee Motivation Theories be Useful for Technical Communicators?
One of the more difficult aspects of being a writer is audience motivation. We face the issue of motivation all the time. Luckily there has been research on this topic
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Could Editing for the Reader Improve Documentation Quality?
What might be the hardest part for you when it comes to writing and editing? I think that one of the more challenging aspects of writing for me is editing
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Could Minimalism Heuristics Improve Document Quality?
When you think of minimalism, what do you think of? When I think of minimalism, I think of being able to easily access documents through different devices. I also think
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A Video Game Studios Case Study
Teaches a Surprising Amount About Technical Communication and Team Development The case study from n-Space, an independent game studio in Orlando, Florida, provides a case study to understand how game
What Technical Communicators can Learn from Translation Moments
Are you a multilingual person who has tried to communicate a certain idea so clearly in your mind, but found yourself fumbling over the right words to use? Have you
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User Experience: User Behavior and its Importance in the Technical Communication Field
I am guilty of immediately opening my apps (especially when its from Target) as soon as I get a notification about a sale. Sometimes I just browse, but more often
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Understanding Social Medias Impact on the Technical Communication Field
I can remember the first time I signed up for Facebook (which seems like so long ago now). It was a whole new space that I learned to navigate quickly
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Understanding the Misuse of Rhetorical Appeals
In many fields there is an understanding of rhetorical appeal and an ethical means of not misusing it. One field that may not seem like it has much relevance in