Susan A. Youngblood and Jo Mackiewicz, Auburn University, “Using Nonprofit Data to Reconsider Genres in TC Courses: Insights from the SLOT-C Database”

Tiffany Bourelle, University of New Mexico, "Dispelling the Myths of Service eLearning: Experiential Learning and the Online Technical Communication Classroom"

YOUNBGLOOD and MACKIEWICZ

GUNNING
Her research focuses on non-profit proposal writers and non-profit proposal writing. Specifically, how grant writers learn to write grant.

David Cowsert, Utah State University, “Internet Usage by Users with Significant Visual Impairment”

Jeffrey A. Bacha, University of Alabama at Birmingham, “Usability ‘Testing’ vs Usability ‘Studies:’ From Testing ‘Use’ to Sustainable Development Practices”

6 Attendees

BACHA

The presenters used various mediations of populate science writing to open up questions associated with pedagogical issues in the Professional and/or Technical communication course. Drawing on their own classroom experiences, Some of the questions raised by the panelists included: How do we examine online texts and what research methodologies work in social media platforms? Can we use older, text-based, tools of analysis to examine social media spaces?

HEIMAN & BARTON

Focus on using Wikis in an ethical and meaningful way.
Goal: using Critical Discourse Analaysis (CDA) to better understand how to use Wikis in the classroom and workplace. They identified and explored ideological struggle in the creation of Wikis.

Matt Sharp—"Who Believes in Structured Authoring? Exploring Discrepencies between Industry and Academia"

Matt listed some industry leaders who are discussing structured authoring: the case for structured authoring, the cost to launch a system, the savings created by a structured authoring system, and the newest technologies available for a system like this.

Dave Clark, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Do Our Beliefs Scale? Writing Pedagogy and Massive Online Courses”

Stuart Selber, Penn State University, and Michael Faris, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, “iPads in the Technical Communication Classroom: A Research Update and Heuristic”

About 18 attendees.

CLARK

Travis Webster, University of Maryland, “Rethinking Professionalization: Assembling Disparate Ideas of What Counts”

Matthew Cox, East Carolina University, “Rethinking Technology as Foundation: Culture and Context as Core in Professional Writing”

WEBSTER
(This is only part of what Webster covered.)

Brenton Faber—"Analytics, Big Data, and Technical Communication"

"Our technical ability to gather data exceeds our analytical capacity to make meaning from this data." Brenton Faber (Worcester Polytech Institute) told us. Brenton explained that the reviewers of his proposal said, "Show us," so the presenters in this panel sought to show us information rather than just telling us about data.

Session A4. Rethinking What Counts: Challenging Beliefs About Effective Professional and Technical Communication

Panelists

Michelle F. Eble and Tracy Ann Morse, East Carolina University, “Rethinking Accessibility: Applying Disability Studies to Professional/Technical Writing”
 

About eighteen attendees.