Matters of Form: Questions of Race,Identity, Design,and the U.S. Census

This case examines how functionalist approaches manifest culturally based on users’ contexts. The authors conduct a critical visual semiotic analysis of the race and Hispanic origin questions on the 2010 U.S. Census form, demonstrating how incongruities in design potentially harm people. This demonstrates a need for adding critical analyses to design and research and it refocuses the Society for Technical Communication’s value of promoting the public good on to design and documentation in order to fight injustice.     

Winch,Christopher, and Gingell,John. 1999. Key Concepts in the Philosophy of Education. London: Routledge.

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Writing in the Health Professions. Barbara A. Heifferon. New York: Longman, 2005. 315 pp.: Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine. Judy Z. Segal. Carbondale,IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. 217 pp

Technical writing instruction often operates in isolation from other components of students' communication education, partly as a consequence of assessment practices that lead to a narrow perspective. We argue for altering this isolation by moving writing instruction into a position of increased programmatic perspective, which may be attained through a means of assessment based on educational outcomes. Two models of technical writing instruction, centralized and diffused, are discussed, and we show how outcomes-based assessment provides for the change in perspective we seek.     

改革 发展 参与 帮扶——对工会基本职责的再认识

一节新课，如果单纯采取老师讲学生听、老师演示学生看的办法进行教学，学生也可以获得知识，但却损失了进行实验探究的方法和经验，只有把知识教学和方法教学统一起来，才能够实现真正的探究。而要设计一个精彩的探究情景，“第一个问题”问什么、怎么问就显得尤为重要。     

Lords,squires, and yeomen: Collegiate middle-managers in the U.S.

This essay examines (a) the causes of growth, elaboration and differentiation in middle-level collegiate administration; (b) the roles and status of mid-level administrators; and (c) the functions of national occupational associations in the professional lives of these campus officials. It is based on data gathered in an extensive search and analysis of the literature, a survey research questionnaire, and structured interviews with more than two hundred administrators, faculty, and search committee chairpersons at twenty colleges and universities of different sizes and types.The metaphor lords, squires, and yeomen represents a conceptual model for understanding the roles and prospects of mid-level collegiate administrators: they are in the center of a status hierarchy that permits only limited mobility. The effects of organizational size and complexity on middle-management functions, the way these functions are organized, and their specialized nature have much to do with the value dilemma of service for others versus control of activities which confronts collegiate administrators in both U.S. and European institutions.This research was supported by the Exxon Education Foundation in 1977.     

Roberts,Peter. 2000. Education,Literacy, and Humanization. Exploring in the Work of Paulo Freire. Westport,Connecticut/London: Bergin & Garvey.

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