Relocating the Value of Work: Technical Communication in a Post-Industrial Age

This article analyzes the location of “value” in technical communication contexts, arguing that current models of technical communication embrace an outdated, self-deprecating, industrial approach subordinating information to concrete technological products. By rethinking technical communication in terms of Reich's “symbolic-analytic work”, technical communicators and educators can move into a post-industrial model of work that prioritizes information and communication, with benefits to both technical communicators and users.     

利用数字技术提升阅读能力(英文)

利用数字技术帮助阅读有困难的读者日益成为保证读者参与的方法之一。2011年秋季学期,俄克拉荷马基督教大学职前教师利用笔记本电脑和iPad对阅读有困难的读者进行了辅导,并将辅导过程所用的iPad应用程序和网站分为以下几类:音素意识、音韵、理解、词汇和流利度,以供其他教师分享。研究发现,如果辅导过程中以某些方式使用数字技术,学生更容易参与到阅读过程中。     

Guest Editor's Introduction: Technical Communication in the Age of Distributed Work

In this introduction, I review the topic of the special issue, distributed work: coordinative, polycontextual, cross-disciplinary work that splices together divergent work activities (separated by time, space, organizations, and objectives) and that enables the transformations of information and texts that characterize such work. After reviewing the literature on distributed work, I introduce the articles in this special issue.     

简论后工业时代美国少数民族文学的崛起

美国少数民族文学的崛起与第二次世界大战之后蔓国社会种族和文化多元化的重新抬头密切相关，也有赖于50年代60年代民权运动的蓬蓬发展，而它获得承认和广泛接受，则离不开坚持多元文化观的学者们的努力和70年代以来文学研究自身的一系列发展。     

企业通信网入因特网的技术方案探讨

网络信息是新型的通信方式,有很大的发展潜力,将企业通信网用户接入因特网时作为公共网用户入网,享有与公共网用户同等待遇是发展趋势。通过对企业分机用户上因特网的技术方案和设备投资方式的探讨,比较了不同技术方案的优缺点及设备投资方式的可行性,为企业通信网入因特网探讨了一种新途径。     

Moving Responses: Communication and Difference in Performative Pedagogies

During the 1990s an African American university band director brought together Rosa Parks and Mark Camphouse for a performance of Camphouse's composition, A Movement for Rosa. Teaching the composition, the conductor and Camphouse communicated with language describing musical and lived realities that student musicians attempted to express and reproduce through their performance. Engaging students substantively with issues of social justice was constrained, because pedagogy dependent on representational language confirms the common sense of what everyone knows, and installs the good sense stabilizing knowledge that tacitly discourages challenges or critiques. Communication that is performative, by contrast, enacts pedagogies that create partial, multiple, and contingent understandings, moving students' responses to action. Beginning with a discussion of the limitations of representational pedagogy using Briankle Chang's model of traditional communication theory, I propose applications of performative pedagogy through Della Pollock's characteristics of performative writing.     

泛组织传播:对孔孟为中心的儒家传播思想考察

从传播学的角度来看,为在礼崩乐坏时代重建理想的礼治社会,儒家传播思想从性善论的逻辑前提出发,把传者和受众、传播内容、传播媒介、传播技巧、传播效果等基本的传播命题都纳入到家国秩序中来思考,并对此做出了种种规定,呈现出泛组织传播的特征。     

Technical Communication Research: From Traditional to Virtual

Researchers in technical communication have recently begun to take advantage of the interactions taking place via computer-mediated communication as a rich source for research. Yet, although research in cyberspace is growing, there are few guidelines for researchers to follow. This article reviews three forms of technical communication research methods (ethnography, rhetorical analysis, and surveys) and raises preliminary issues to consider when using such research methods in cyberspace. These issues include privacy and author permissions.     

Techne and Technical Communication: Toward a Dialogue

The classical Greek discourse on techne has much to offer technical communication teachers concerned about the relationship between theory and practice, but this potential has not yet been realized. Plato's and Aristotle's discussions about the relationship between techne and rhetoric, for example, encompass questions about the rhetorical goals of the speakedwriter and about the role of theory in teaching rhetorical art that are of continuing relevance to the modern discourse on technical communication. The aim of this article is to identify several points upon which a fruitful dialogue between ancient and modern discourses can begin. First, I supply some background on how the term techne was used up through the fourth century BCE. Then I discuss how the modern discourse on technical communication (including material from popular textbooks) both converges with and departs from Plato's and Aristotle's statements on the relationship between techne and rhetoric. Finally, I point out areas for further discussion as teachers of technical communication continue to reflect upon and refine their pedagogies.     

社会认知视角下的交际曲折研究

交际曲折是指语言官能正常的人在交际过程中遇到的不顺畅情况。社会认知语用学理论是研究交际的新一视角,强调不仅要研究合作、礼貌等正面特征,更要研究自我中心导致的交际曲折等负面特征。因此,社会认知视角特别适于研究交际曲折。从说者与听者双方角度对三类交际曲折实例（即称呼语的选用与接受、说者与听者的不同凸显义、隐含义的表达与理解）的分析展示了从社会认知视角对交际曲折的具体研究。     

交通史视角的秦汉长城考察

长城是中国古代重要的军事防御工事,最初修筑,在于阻障在交通方面机动性甚强的北方草原民族的攻击。然而长城工程又导致了新的交通条件的完备。长城本身形成了特殊的交通带,同时亦促进了"北边"地方空间幅度十分宽广的交通体系。"关市"交通,"当路塞"的作用以及长城防线与内地的交通联系也值得重视。     

多屏化传播时代的媒体变革

多屏化时代是一个媒介更强调策略、更强调创意、更强调整合、更为注重受众的时代。文章探讨了多屏化时代的传播新特征,分析了多屏的到来,使媒体形态和传播格局发生了重大而深刻的变化,并重点探讨了新的传播环境,引发了媒体的多元变革与传播革命。     

论大众传播时代的媒介权力

大众媒介通过影响个体的认知与思维活动以及形成普遍社会心理,来产生一种对个体支配性的媒介权力。在这种媒介权力的背后,我们不仅能看到技术所起的巨大作用,同时能看到这种权力往往与意识形态联系在一起。这种媒介权力如果运用得当,可以成为一股有益于社会发展的动力;如果运用不当,也可能走向异化。     

Playing with Techne: A Propaedeutic for Technical Communication

Frustrated by textbooks that push technical communication students prematurely into workplace scenarios, as well as theories that condemn techne in order to advance a particular agenda, we offer a perspective on techne that respects the formative-not professional-situation of technical writing students and emphasizes the importance for technical writers to attend to history, artistry, and well-developed social relations in their work. We offer historically grounded, creative meditations on techne that emphasize its manifold nature: it is conversational, ingenious, cunning, full of trickery, and unpredictably artistic. Such meditations can replace overly complex workplace scenarios in technical communication classrooms, particularly when an instructor wishes to emphasize knowledge making rather than the mechanics and politics of document production.     

教学理论:走向交往与对话的时代

教学活动的本质是交往 ,对话是教学交往的主要形式与途径 ,我们要摒弃知识授受的师生关系 ,确立平等的“你—我”师生关系 ,走向交往与对话的时代。     

Layered Literacies: A Theoretical Frame for Technical Communication Pedagogy

This article proposes a theoretical frame for technical communication peda- gogy based on six layered literacies: basic, rhetorical, social, technological, ethical, and critical. The layered literacies frame advocates diverse instruction in technical communication programs, ranging from the ancient art of rhetoric to the most contemporary of technologies, from basic reading and writing skills to ethical and critical situational analyses. The article also suggests how the frame can be applied to a program of study or individual course in order to establish teaching objectives; develop course and lesson activities; and assess pedagogical materials, students, and programs.     

Do It Your Way: Advice from Senior Academic Women

An open-ended question requesting advice for women students and women beginning careers in higher education was distributed to senior women faculty and administrators who began their careers around 1970. Responses were obtained from 94 women, averaging about three different pieces of advice per respondent. This advice was then categorized as background information, cautions, facts of life, life choices, coping strategies, or personal wisdom. Overall, these successful women exhibited optimism about women's progress, which they themselves are positioned to facilitate.