{"id":52,"date":"2017-12-31T22:21:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T22:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/how-teach-tpc\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2018-01-08T21:09:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T21:09:13","slug":"week-1-january-9","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/how-teach-tpc\/schedule\/week-1-january-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1: January 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/how-teach-tpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/how-teach-tpc\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/how-teach-tpc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/how-teach-tpc\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><p>Topic: Definitions and introduction<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read for Class: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pieces that you&#8217;re reading are insta-classics in the field of TPC. For each of these skim them enough to get some of the major points. Yes, they are mostly quite old, and that&#8217;s because TPC scholars lost interest in trying to define the field. But you need to have a sense of them because we&#8217;re going to use them in the class.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allen, J. (1990). The case against defining technical writing. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 4(2), 68-77.<\/li>\n<li>Miller, C. (1979). A humanistic rationale for technical writing. College English, 40(6), 610-617.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/how-teach-tpc\/files\/2018\/01\/dobrin_whats_technical.pdf\">Dobrin, D. (1983). What&#8217;s technical about technical writing? In P. V. Anderson, R. J. Brockmann, &amp; C. R. Miller (Eds.), New essays in technical and scientific communication: Research, theory, practice (pp. 227-250).<\/a> (opens as a pdf)<\/li>\n<li>Faber, B. (2002). Professional identities: What is professional about professional communication? Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 16(3), 306-337.<\/li>\n<li>Locker, K. O. (2003). Will professional communication be the death of business communication? Business Communication Quarterly, 66(3), 118-132.<\/li>\n<li>Slack, J. D., Miller, D. J., &amp; Doak, J. (1993). The technical communicator as author: Meaning, power, authority. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 7(1), 12-36. and <a href=\"http:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/how-teach-tpc\/files\/2018\/01\/slack_followup.pdf\">Slack Postscript<\/a> (opens as a pdf)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Do for class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please bring three questions that the readings raised for you. (typed up or hand written but written down on something that you can turn in).<\/p>\n<p>Please take a moment to click through the course website (which is still very much in progress but has the bones of what you&#8217;ll be doing and reading).<\/p>\n<p><strong>In class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>group discussion about expectations of the course\n<ul>\n<li>brief overview of the course<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>mini lecture of TPC and &#8220;theoretical&#8221; origins\n<ul>\n<li>historical TPC<\/li>\n<li>rhet-brick??<\/li>\n<li>content knowledge versus teaching writing knowledge versus teaching knowledge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>discussion of the readings\n<ul>\n<li>definitions of TPC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topic: Definitions and introduction Read for Class: The pieces that you&#8217;re reading are insta-classics in the field of TPC. For each of these skim them enough to get some of the major points. Yes, they are mostly quite old, and that&#8217;s because TPC scholars lost interest in trying to define the field. 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