Williams Technical Communication for Environmental Action

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9130-1
Verlag: State University of New York Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 338 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series, Studies in Technical Communication

Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing the global community in the twenty-first century. With its position at the border of people, technology, science, and communication, technical communication has a significant role to play in helping to solve these complex environmental problems. This collection of essays engages scholars and practitioners in a conversation about how the field has contributed to pragmatic and democratic action to address climate change. Compared to most prior work—which offers theoretical perspectives of environmental communication—this collection explores the actual practice of international technical communicators who participate in government projects, corporate processes, nonprofit programs, and international agency work, demonstrating how technical communication theories such as participatory design, social justice, and ethics can help shape pragmatic environmental action.


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Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Sean D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments


Introduction

Sean D. Williams


1. When the Sound Is Frozen: Extracting Climate Data from Inuit Narratives

Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq


2. Boundary Waters: Deliberative Experience Design for Environmental Decision Making

Daniel Card


3. In Defense of a Greenspace: Students Discover Agency in the Practice of Community-Engaged Technical Communication

Bob Hyland


4. Flood Insurance Rate Maps as Communicative Sites of Pragmatic Environmental Action

Daniel P. Richards


5. Collaborating for Clean Air: Virtue Ethics and the Cultivation of Transformational Service-Learning Partnerships

Lauren E. Cagle and Roberta Burnes


6. The Narrative of Silent Stakeholders: Reframing Local Environmental Communications to Include Global Human Impacts

Beth Shirley


7. Resilient Farmland: The Role of Technical Communicators

Sara B. Parks and Lee S. Tesdell


8. Writing for Clients, Writing for Change: Proposals, Persuasion, and Problem Solving in the Technical Writing Classroom

Monika A. Smith


9. Health in the Shale Fields: Technical Communication and Environmental Health Risks

Barbara George


10. Participatory Policy: Enacting Technical Communication for a Shared Water Future

Josephine Walwema


11. Rhino Crash: Teaching Science, Medical, and Environmental Writing for Social Action

Michelle Hall Kells


Epilogue: Right Relation with the Whole World: Creating a Richer Polyvocality for Environmental Technical Communication

Caroline Gottschalk Druschke


Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sean D. Williams is Professor of Technical Communication and Information Design at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is the coauthor of
Technical Writing for Teams: The STREAM Tools Handbook.