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Dr. TyAnna Herrington, 404.894.6207, Skiles 23, off hrs TT 9-10:30, tyanna.herrington@lcc.gatech.edu
The Post-doc Seminar in Teaching Technical Communication provides information regarding the principles and concepts of technical communication as a foundation for exploring issues in technical communication pedagody. The seminar creates opportunities for participants to develop effective pedagogical methods for helping students learn to create proposals, analytical reports, and related oral presentations.
The seminar emphasizes experiential learning/teaching and theory-driven approaches to learning/teaching tecnical communication. Seminar content is expected to defeat the notion that students can learn effective technical communication skills through rote practice and by filling in generic template responses to commincation needs. Instead, seminar participants should end the course with a firm understanding that effecive technical communication can be produced only through intelligent critical response to contextual situations
Beginning with the premise that technical communication exists only within contextual situations, and both uses and creates information designed for specific purposes in specific communities (those already existing within organizations as well as those created for a unique purpose), this seminar will help participants explore means of guiding students to understand both primary and secondary research venues (especially electronic ones), to analyze situations and audiences, to work collaboratively in an electronic environment, and to create documents and oral presentations which communicate through effective structure, prose, and visual presentation.
teaching technical communication-- post-doc seminar