Articles

Rocket Rhetoric

Paul Dombrowski
University of Central Florida

Spring 2010

I teach undergraduate technical communication courses for both majors and non-majors.  I recently decided to spice up my non-majors course for interdisciplinary honors students, who range from humanities to natural sciences majors. 

Second Language Students in Technical Writing Classrooms

Meg Morgan
UNC Charlotte

Spring 2010

ATTW Letter from the President

Kelli Cargile Cook
Texas Tech University

Spring 2010

ATTW Letter from the President

Kelli Cargile Cook

Texas Tech University

Fall 2010

On Thursday, September, 23, 2010, Taylor and Francis sent an email blast to ATTW members. If you know your dues are current but you didn't get an email, please contact Susan Popham, ATTW membership chair at spopham@memphis.edu. She can check your membership history and provide you with current information.

Hazardous Rhetoric

Paul Dombrowski
University of Central Florida
Spring 2009

 

Rhetoric and ethics are related, Aristotle noted long ago. Our rhetorical choices reflect our values and our purposes. Especially in our activities to engage the public in complex technical issues, appropriate and effective rhetorical choices are vitally important.

An Evaluation of Adobe’s New Instructional Design Suite: Adobe eLearning Suite

David E. Hailey, Jr 
Utah State University
Spring 2009

Instructors designing online courses may want to look into Adobe’s newest suite for tools that will help them create interactive course content. Below I discuss my experiences with this new version as I designed online courses. In general, I found that the new suite works well, but it may also provide users with challenges.

Exploring Online Teaching and Learning

Meg Morgan, ATTW Teaching Committee
UNC Charlotte
Fall 2009

Writing Across the Northern Border: The Study of Writing and Discourse in Canada

David Beard
University of Minnesota Duluth
Fall 2009

Those of us who work primarily in the United States may not be familiar with the study and teaching of writing in the institutional and scholarly traditions north of the border within the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW).  Its May 2009 meeting in Ottawa, Canada, at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences provided several insights about the perspectives that this group represents. 

Ethics in words: The conundrum of nuclear safety

Paul Dombrowski
University of Central Florida
Spring 2011

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