Bøker i Baywood's Technical Communications-serien

Designed to address the randomness of the literature on software documentation. This book contains a variety of perspectives, tied together by the need to make software products more usable.

Designed for use in academic programs in technical and professional communication and for communication professionals in the workplace, this work presents essays from contributors that offer multiple perspectives, and an introduction to some of the important issues publications.

An examination of the impact of the terrorist attack on the United States in terms of how it may alter academic and corporate research, as well as the sharing of information generated by that research, by international colleagues in technological fields.

A collection of essays that examines how practitioners can improve the acceptance of their documentation when communicating to cultures other than their own. These essays begin by examining the cross-cultural issues relating to quality in documentation. They then look at examples of common documents, analysing them from several perspectives.

The increasingly global nature of the World Wide Web presents new challenges and opportunities for technical communicators who must develop content for clients or colleagues from other cultures and in other nations

These writings constitute a diverse and thematically coherent set of inquiries and cover topics such as cyber activism, digital dispositio, citizen and open-source journalism, broadband affordances, XML, digital resumes, avant garde performance art, best pedagogical practices, and intercultural communication between East and West, North and South.

The collection asks how faculty, courses, and programmes have responded and adapted to changes in students' needs and abilities, to economic constraints, to new course management systems, and to Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking, virtual worlds, and mobile communication devices.

A set of essays on the relationship between discourse and the many institutions within which people act.

A collection of essays that focuses on both how and why assessment serves as a key element in the teaching and practice of technical and professional communication. It offers teachers, students, scholars, and practitioners evidence of the increasingly valuable role of assessment in the field, as it supports and enriches our thinking and practice.

Explores the development of internship experiences, creates an introduction to the topic of internships, and provides a foundation for college-corporation partnerships in professional education and training.