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Isis ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bev Sauer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Technical Communication ◽  
Technical Writing ◽  
Writing Studies ◽  
State University ◽  
Science Management ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Educating Technical Communication Teachers: The Origins, Development, and Present Status of the Course, “Teaching Technical Writing” at Illinois State University

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Gerald Savage
Keyword(s):  
Technical Communication ◽  
Technical Writing ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Status ◽  
State University ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Communication Program ◽  
Illinois State University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Communication Pedagogy

Since the early 1980s, Illinois State University’s English Department has educated numerous technical communication practitioners as well as dozens of teachers of technical communication throughout the United States. Today, the program’s faculty members are nationally recognized for their contributions to scholarship and education and its Ph.D. and M.A. students are sought after to teach in the technical communication programs of other universities. A critical component of this success was the development of the graduate course, Teaching Technical Writing in 1990. This essay situates the development of that course in the history not only of the technical communication program at Illinois State University but in the history of the technical communication field, particularly since 1950. Although the essay focuses on one course in one midsized, Midwestern U.S. University, it is, I believe, exemplary of the development and current status of technical communication pedagogy throughout the U.S.

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