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Environmental Data Visualizations: Opportunities For Technical Communication Research, Alissa Schmidt 2019 Minnesota State University, Mankato

Environmental Data Visualizations: Opportunities For Technical Communication Research, Alissa Schmidt

Technical Communication Capstone Course

Environmental issues touch nearly every field. Technical communication researchers have advocated for multidisciplinary environmental communication research to effectively address the depth of environmental issues and speed at which environmental issues evolve. Visuals are often used in environmental communication to help clarify complex information. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the author utilizes secondary research to answer the question, ‘how do data visualizations support environmental communication?’ This research illustrates the value of using environmental data visualizations to add credibility and to facilitate interpretation within environmental communication. Alignment among disciplines, however, is limited in other attributes of environmental data visualizations such as representing temporal …


Service-Learning: Effectively Transitioning Students Into The Workplace, Rachel B. Bean 2019 Eastern Washington University

Service-Learning: Effectively Transitioning Students Into The Workplace, Rachel B. Bean

2019 Symposium

Service-learning is a method of learning that is meant to integrate the needs of the community with the academic curriculum of the students. This method allows for the work of the students, emerging professionals, to be used outside of the school, serving as a test of the skills that students may have only used in a school setting. Students are assigned the task of completing a project for a community organization who is without the resources to complete the project. Matching students who need experience with community organizations who are in need of professional services is an effective method of …


"Simple" Or "Simplistic"?, Ashli Villarreal 2019 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

"Simple" Or "Simplistic"?, Ashli Villarreal

Word for Word 2019

No abstract provided.


Joking Hazard Brings Comedy To Snc, 2019 St. Norbert College

Joking Hazard Brings Comedy To Snc

St. Norbert Times

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What's In A Genre?: The Relationship Between Reader And Text, Anabelle Mahoney 2019 University of Rhode Island

What's In A Genre?: The Relationship Between Reader And Text, Anabelle Mahoney

Senior Honors Projects

The way in which literary genres are understood shapes how one reads and interacts with different texts. Genre expectations affect both how individuals choose texts to read, and then how those texts are understood. Therefore, labeling literature as a certain genre affects the relationship between writer and reader. Literary nonfiction is unlike most genres as it promises a certain truth to its readers. One cannot deviate too far from “the truth” in nonfiction writing and still fulfill the genre; the relationship a reader has with a text changes if it is not considered “true enough.” Author James Frey, who marketed …


Kline & Specter: A Professional Corporation, Ibraheem Bussey 2019 Ursinus College

Kline & Specter: A Professional Corporation, Ibraheem Bussey

Media and Communication Studies Presentations

No abstract provided.


Expressing Ranges Using Hyphens, Tammy Locke 2019 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Expressing Ranges Using Hyphens, Tammy Locke

Word for Word 2019

No abstract provided.


Volume 115 Issue 12, Southwestern Oklahoma State University 2019 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Volume 115 Issue 12, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.


Training Older Adults To Use Technology: Facing The Challenges, Edna Rodgers 2019 University of Arkansas Little Rock

Training Older Adults To Use Technology: Facing The Challenges, Edna Rodgers

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis discusses development of a training manual with a computer course curriculum for seniors. The curriculum can be used in part of a training manual designed for people who are interested to teach older adults basic computer technology skills at the Dunbar Community Center located in central Little Rock. This project was completed using primarily research articles, books, newspaper reports, and voluntary interviews with people age 60 or older. A letter of consent was given to each participant, and interviews questions were completed using an anonymous assessment questionnaire form. The questionnaire form was used to examine the participant level …


Thinking Outside The Toolbox: A Teaching Resource For Vocational Writing, Dustin Ledford 2019 Kennesaw State University

Thinking Outside The Toolbox: A Teaching Resource For Vocational Writing, Dustin Ledford

Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones

This capstone project combines elements of contextualization, professional writing, and process pedagogy to create a course design for teaching writing in the technical college/vocational school setting. With this course design, students are asked to complete a variety of scenario-driven, workplace-related writing tasks that teach fundamentals of college composition including research, critical thinking, and process-based writing. With this sample curriculum, students write from realistic scenarios from the healthcare industry, especially tasks from the medical office environment. The goal of this course design is to model and promote new practices for teaching writing in vocational settings to better engage students in these …


Hollywood, Hashtags, And Cultural Disharmony: A Comparative Framing Analysis Of How American Newspapers Have Framed The Me Too Movement, Julia M. Fechter 2019 Georgia Southern University

Hollywood, Hashtags, And Cultural Disharmony: A Comparative Framing Analysis Of How American Newspapers Have Framed The Me Too Movement, Julia M. Fechter

Honors College Theses

This project explored how The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the New York Post covered the Me Too movement by studying the frames and framing techniques embedded in the newspapers’ articles. As one of the initial studies to analyze how American newspapers covered the movement, this study investigated how such content might be formative to subsequent narratives published about the Me Too movement. The articles were analyzed using a codebook adapted from Kowalewski (2006). Elements coded included but were not limited to the articles’ political affiliations, article tones, main news angles and main frames in order …


Open Technical Writing: An Open-Access Text For Instruction In Technical And Professional Writing, Adam Rex Pope 2019 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Open Technical Writing: An Open-Access Text For Instruction In Technical And Professional Writing, Adam Rex Pope

Open Educational Resources

This book presents technical writing as an approach to researching and carrying out writing that centers on technical subject matter. Each and every chapter is devoted to helping students understand that good technical writing is situationally-aware and context-driven. Technical writing doesn’t work off knowing the one true right way of doing things—there is no magic report template out there that will always work. Instead, the focus is on offering students a series of approaches they can use to map out their situations and do research accordingly.


Volume 115 Issue 11, Southwestern Oklahoma State University 2019 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Volume 115 Issue 11, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.


No Doubts About "Doubt", 2019 St. Norbert College

No Doubts About "Doubt"

St. Norbert Times

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“You Are Sexist!” “No, I’M A Sports Reporter.” An Analysis Of Females’ And Males’ Portrayal In Print Media, Lauryn Beam 2019 University of Lynchburg

“You Are Sexist!” “No, I’M A Sports Reporter.” An Analysis Of Females’ And Males’ Portrayal In Print Media, Lauryn Beam

Student Scholar Showcase

Media itself has always been an outlet for the public. It has been used for entertainment, information, and a societal tool from the time when it was first advancing. Sport media is a genre all its own. There has always been a gender divide in sport and sport media. For this critical study, print media sources from different outlets were analyzed to compare two female athletes against two male athletes. The athletes being compared were Serena Williams and John McEnroe, as well as Brandi Chastain and Nicolas Anelka. Each article was analyzed for how the journalist portrayed the athlete, in …


"As Well As" Or "And"?, Joe Munch 2019 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

"As Well As" Or "And"?, Joe Munch

Word for Word 2019

No abstract provided.


Volume 115 Issue 10, Southwestern Oklahoma State University 2019 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Volume 115 Issue 10, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.


Volume 115 Issue 9, Southwestern Oklahoma State University 2019 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Volume 115 Issue 9, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.


Eng 100: The Effects Of Social Media On College Students: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Emily Porter 2019 Western Kentucky University

Eng 100: The Effects Of Social Media On College Students: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Emily Porter

English 100-200-300 Conference

No abstract provided.


The Adaptive Cycle: Resilience In The History Of First-Year Composition, Clancy Ratliff 2019 University of Louisiana at Lafayette

The Adaptive Cycle: Resilience In The History Of First-Year Composition, Clancy Ratliff

Faculty Publications

This article presents a new examination of the history of the first-year composition requirement using the “adaptive cycle” idea about the resilience of systems. The author argues that we may be experiencing the collapse of required FYC and should look to other possible futures of college writing.


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