A systems approach to project management pedagogy: Situating competencies and relationships to constellate emerging technical and professional communication practice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Lauren ◽  
Joanna Schreiber
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Communication Practice ◽  
Technical And Professional Communication

Rhetorics of Proposal Writing: Lessons for Pedagogy in Research and Real-World Practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Heidi Y. Lawrence ◽  
Rachael G. Lussos ◽  
Jessica A. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Real World ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Research Reporting ◽  
Proposal Writing ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Communication Instruction ◽  
Technical And Professional Communication ◽  
Writing Task

Proposals are ubiquitous documents with challenges beyond the writing task itself, such as project management, strategic development, and research. Reporting on proposal instruction research in other fields and the results of an interview study with proposal writers, this article argues for a shift in how proposals are taught and conceptualized. By coaching students on the wide range of rhetorical practices that proposals require rather than how to produce proposal documents, technical and professional communication instruction can better prepare future communicators to manage and produce competitive proposals and more actively participate in these important efforts in the community, industry, and academy.

Composing Like an Entrepreneur: The Pedagogical Implications of Design Thinking in the Workplace

2021 ◽  
pp. 004728162110315
Author(s):  
Mason Pellegrini
Keyword(s):  
Design Thinking ◽  
Web Design ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Business Success ◽  
Current State ◽  
Composing Process ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Design Firms ◽  
Fierce Competition ◽  
Technical And Professional Communication

Fierce competition has made innovation increasingly necessary for business success, and this has increased the importance of user-based innovation strategies like design thinking (DT). While many studies in technical and professional communication (TPC) have explored how DT can be used pedagogically, no studies have done this through investigating how DT is used as a workplace composing process. This study does exactly that. First, it presents the current state of research on pedagogical uses of DT in TPC, and then it builds upon those suggestions with an empirical study that chronicles on how two web design firms use DT to make websites. My main suggestion is to teach DT as a recursive process that allows students transcend potentially incorrect assumptions built into design tasks through gathering data not only from users, but from clients as well.

scholarly journals Project-oriented web scraping in technical communication research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Gallagher ◽  
Aaron Beveridge
Keyword(s):  
Technical Communication ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Web Scraping ◽  
Technical And Professional Communication ◽  
Technical Considerations

This article advocates for web-scraping as an effective method to augment and enhance technical and professional communication (TPC) research practices. Web scraping is used to create consistently structured and well-sampled datasets about domains, communities, demographics, and topics of interest to TPC scholars. After an extended description of web scraping, we identify technical considerations of the method as well as provide practitioner narratives. We then describe an overview of project-oriented web scraping, and we discuss implications for the concept as a sustainable approach to developing web-scraping methods for TPC research.

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