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A Letter to Students and Clients – Drawing Lessons from Failure in a Service...
Image from Flickr user donovanbeeson [Prefatory note: As a client-based course, my technical communication class at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta functions like a hybrid between a college...
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Tech Comm Seminar 9/17: The “Soul” of Business and Technical Communication —...
“Business Card Recycling.” Flickr Commons In this seminar session, Dr. Patrick McHenry and Dr. Andy Frazee will lead discussion on the “soul” of business and technical communication; in so doing, the...
View ArticleTech Comm Seminar 10/8: Visual Literacy, Visual and Information Design
James Gregory and Rachel Mahan will lead Monday’s Tech Comm Seminar discussion on visual literacy, visual design, and information design. We would like you to read and watch the following: “What is...
View ArticleTech Comm Seminar 10/29: Single-Sourcing and User Experience Issues
Jason W. Ellis and Rachel Mahan will lead a discussion on single-sourcing and user experience issues for this week’s seminar. While technical communication often focuses on software technologies, those...
View ArticleTech Comm Seminar 11/05: Digital Literacy and Social Media
Jason W. Ellis and Olga Menagarishvili will lead a discussion on digital literacy and social media issues for technical communicators in this week’s seminar. How does digital literacy in general and...
View ArticleTech Comm Seminar 11/26: Service Learning
James Gregory and Christina Van Houten will lead discussion on service learning and technical communication; in this seminar, we’ll also open up our discussion to issues of case studies, portfolios,...
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The Importance of Team-Based Learning and Multivector Interaction in the...
Even though the course I am teaching this spring semester has the same name and number as the one I taught in the fall—LMC 3403: Technical Communication in Theory and Practice—the two classes couldn’t...
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Even If You’re Cool, You Should Ask
Students rarely glide or gambol into a campus communication center. There is no samba line to sentence reconstruction. The run-up to their appearance at the door is pretty simple: they have an...
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“The Language of Tech Comm: Teaching Technical Communication From a...
On Tuesday, February 18, from 11-12 PM in Hall 102, the Communication Colloquium presents “The Language of Tech Comm: Teaching Technical Communication From a Humanities Perspective.” LMC 3403:...
View ArticleUsing Video Games in the Technical Communication Classroom
The 21st Century developments in technology, integrated national and internal economies, and workforce demographics create the expectation that the workplace will be a space in which workers are...
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The Office Hour, Chapter 18: “Britt History 1 (The Future)”
Toby takes over the podcast this week, in the first installment of a three-part series in which we address the past, present, and future of the Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship. In this...
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“Should I Go to Work?”: On Participating in A Day Without Women
Images from the March 9 Women’s Strike and Female Scientists (center), available under a Creative Commons license. On the morning of March 8, 2017, I, like many women around the country (and perhaps...
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Debugging the Gender Gap: Questioning Stereotypes in the Tech Comm Classroom
On Tuesday, March 14, Georgia Tech hosted a screening of the documentary CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap. The 2015 film, which played at various film festivals and tech events such as the 2015 Grace...
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Information Overload, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Social Media
Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons. The longer I teach, the more aware I become of a growing ideological separation between myself and my students. It’s not that I’m morphing into an out-of-touch,...
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Intersections of Tech Comm in the Tech Industry and Classroom
Photo credit: Mateusz Dach I was a Brittain Fellow at Georgia Tech from Fall 2016 until this past August, when I accepted a full time job at RedMonk, a developer-focused tech industry analyst firm....
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Georgia Tech’s CS Tech Comm & Junior Design Sequence
This is the second part in a series on the intersections of technical communication in the tech industry and classroom. Read the series introduction here. Photo credit: Disavian at English Wikipedia...
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On Conferences in Academia and the Tech Industry
This is the third part in a series on the intersections of technical communication in the tech industry and the academy. Read the series introduction here. Agenda for the Container Power Hour at AWS...
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(Re)designing the Instructional Artifact: The Poetry Machine Project
User operating a mimeograph machine in the 1950s. Courtesy of Storyblocks. In the 2017-18 academic year I executed a lively experiment integrating poetry into LMC 3403, a traditional technical...
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Public Tech Comm: Preparing Students for Tech Expos
This is the fourth part in a series on the intersections of technical communication in the tech industry and the academy. Read the series introduction here. One of the more interesting aspects of the...
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From First Year Comp to Tech Comm (and Beyond): an Interview with Dori Coblentz
This is the fifth part in a series on the intersections of technical communication in the tech industry and the academy. Read the series introduction here. Dori Coblentz lecturing on fencing rapier As...
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