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Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing addresses the complexities of developing professional and technical writing programs. The essays in the collection offer reflections on efforts to bridge two cultures—what the editors characterize as the “art and science of writing”—often by addressing explicitly the tensions between them. Design Discourse offers insights into the high-stakes decisions made by program designers as they seek to “function at the intersection of the practical and the abstract, the human and the technical.”

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Date de parution 06 octobre 2010
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EAN13 9781602351677
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DESIGN DISCOURSE
Franke
ReidDESIGN DISCOURSE
DiRenzo
Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional
and Technical Writing addresses the complexities of developing
professional and technical writing programs. The essays in the collectio-n offer re
flections on efforts to bridge two cultures—what the editors characterize as
the “art and science of writing”—often by addressing explicitly the tensions DESIGN
between them. Design Discours oe ffers insights into the high-stakes d- eci
sions made by program designers as they seek to “function at the intersection
of the practical and the abstract, the human and the technical.” DISCOURSE
David Franke teaches at SUNY Cortland, where he served as director of the Composing and Revising
professional writing program. He founded and directs the Seven Val-leys Writ
ing Project at SUNY Cortland, a site of the National Writing Project. Programs in Professional
and Technical WritingAlex Reid teaches at the University at Buffalo. His book, The Two Virtuals:
New Media and Composition, received honorable mention for the W. Ross
Winterowd Award for Best Book in Composition Theory (2007), and his blog,
Digital Digs (alex-reid.net), received the John Lovas Memorial Acade-mic We
blog award for contributions to the field of rhetoric and composition (2008).
Anthony Di Renzo teaches business and technical writing at Ithaca College,
where he developed a Professional Writing concentration for its BA in Writing. Edited by
His scholarship concentrates on the historical relationship between
professional writing and literature. David Franke
Alex ReidPerspectives on Writing
Series Editor, Michael Palmquist Anthony DiRenzo
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PRESSPERSPECTIVES ON WRITING
Series Editor, Mike Palmquist
PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING
Series Editor, Mike Palmquist
Te Perspectives on Writing series addresses writing studies in a broad sense.
Consistent with the wide ranging approaches characteristic of teaching and
scholarship in writing across the curriculum, the series presents works that take
divergent perspectives on working as a writer, teaching writing, administering
writing programs, and studying writing in its various forms.
Te WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press are collaborating so that these books
will be widely available through free digital distribution and low-cost print
editions. Te publishers and the Series editor are teachers and researchers of
writing, committed to the principle that knowledge should freely circulate.
We see the opportunities that new technologies have for further democratizing
knowledge. And we see that to share the power of writing is to share the means
for all to articulate their needs, interest, and learning into the great experiment
of literacy.
Existing Books in the Series
Charles Bazerman and David R. Russell, Writing Selves/Writing Societies (2003)
Gerald P. Delahunty and James Garvey, Te English Language: from Sound to
Sense (2010)
Charles Bazerman, Adair Bonini, and Débora Figueiredo (Eds.), Genre in a
Changing World (2009)
David Franke, Alex Reid, and Anthony Di Renzo (Eds.), Design Discourse:
Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing (2010)DESIGN DISCOURSE:
COMPOSING AND REVISING
PROGRAMS IN PROFESSIONAL
AND TECHNICAL WRITING
Edited by
David Franke
Alex Reid
Anthony Di Renzo
Te WAC Clearinghouse
wac.colostate.edu
Fort Collins, Colorado
Parlor Press
www.parlorpress.com
Anderson, South Carolina
Te WAC Clearinghouse, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1052
Parlor Press, 3015 Brackenberry Drive, Anderson, South Carolina 29621
© 2010 David Franke, Alex Reid, and Anthony Di Renzo. Tis work is licensed under
a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States
License.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
Design discourse : composing and revising programs in professional and technical writing /
edited by David Franke, Alex Reid, Anthony DiRenzo.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-60235-165-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-166-0 (hardcover : alk.
paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-167-7 (adobe ebook : alk. paper)
1. English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States. 2. Academic
writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States. 3. Technical writing--Study and
teaching (Higher)--United States. 4. Writing centers--Administration. I. Franke, David, 1960- II.
Reid, Alex, 1969- III. DiRenzo, Anthony, 1960-
PE1405.U6D47 2010
808’.0420711--dc22
2010001091
Copyeditor: Annabelle Bertram
Designer: David Doran
Series Editor: Mike Palmquist
Te WAC Clearinghouse supports teachers of writing across the disciplines. Hosted by
Colorado State University, it brings together scholarly journals and book series as well as resources
for teachers who use writing in their courses. Tis book is available in digital format for free
download at http://wac.colostate.edu.
Parlor Press, LLC is an independent publisher of scholarly and trade titles in print and
multimedia formats. Tis book is available in paperback, cloth, and Adobe eBook formats
from Parlor Press on the World Wide Web at http://www.parlorpress.com. For submission
information or to fnd out about Parlor Press publications, write to Parlor Press, 3015
Brackenberry Drive, Anderson, South Carolina 29621, or e-mail editor@parlorpress.com.Tis volume is dedicated to all those who are delighted by the
study, teaching, and practice of writing. Contents
Preface ix
Composing 3
1 Te Great Instauration: Restoring Professional and
Technical Writing to the Humanities 5
Anthony Di Renzo
2 Starts, False Starts, and Getting Started:
(Mis)understanding the Naming of a Professional Writing Minor19
Michael Knievel, Kelly Belanger, Colin Keeney, Julianne Couch,
and Christine Stebbins
3 Composing a Proposal for a Professional / Technical Writing Program 41
W. Gary Griswold
4 Disciplinary Identities: Professional Writing,
Rhetorical Studies, and Rethinking “English” 63
Brent Henze, Wendy Sharer, and Janice Tovey
Revising 87
5 Smart Growth of Professional Writing Programs:
Controlling Sprawl in Departmental Landscapes 89
Diana Ashe and Colleen A. Reilly
6 Curriculum, Genre and Resistance: Revising Identity in a Professional
Writing Community 113
David Franke
7 Composing and Revising the Professional Writing Program
at Ohio Northern University: A Case Study 131
Jonathan Pitts
viiContents
Minors, Certifcates, Engineering 151
8 Certifcate Programs in Technical Writing: Trough Sophistic Ey153es
Jim Nugent
9 Shippensburg University’s Technical / Professional Communications
Minor: A Multidisciplinary Approach 171
Carla Kungl and S. Dev Hathaway
10 Reinventing Audience through Distance 189
Jude Edminster and Andrew Mara
11 Introducing a Technical Writing Communication Course
into a Canadian School of Engineering 203
Anne Parker
12 English and Engineering, Pedagogy and Politics 219
Brian D. Ballentine
Futures 241
13 Te Tird Way: PTW and the Liberal Arts in the
New Knowledge Society 243
Anthony Di Renzo
14 Te Write Brain: Professional Writing in the
Post-Knowledge Economy 254
Alex Reid
Post-Scripts by Veteran Program Designers 275
15 A Techné for Citizens: Service-Learning,
Conversation, and Community 277
James Dubinsky
16 Models of Professional Writing / Technical Writing Administration:
Refections of a Serial Administrator at Syracuse Univ ersity 297
Carol Lipson
Biographical Notes 317
viiiPreface
David Franke
Tis book grew out of the challenges of starting and sustaining a
Professional and Technical Writing program at the state college where Alex Reid and
I were hired (nearby, co-editor Anthony Di Renzo began his program at Ithaca
College in New York a few years before us). We found ourselves building our
program at the intersection of several academic and semi-academic discourses—
rhetoric, English, new media, business, publishing, composition and others.
We had plenty of theory from these felds and personal experience as students,
teachers, writers, and freelancers. Yet as we established our identity as a major,
we found that our interactions with other departments (especially English), our
entanglement with the long-standing academic tensions between “liberal” and
“vocational” education, the demands of staying abreast of new technology, the
way our resources and students were distributed across many disciplines—all
these pressures and others combined in unexpected ways, presenting us with a
bit of a paradox in that we were compelled to make sense of the whole while we
struggled with the day-to-day work of running a new program; simultaneously,
most day-to-day decisions depended on a sense of our whole—our mission,
rhythms, audiences, and strengths. Seen from a purely analytical perspective,
what we were trying to do seemed impossi

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