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SUNY series, Studies in Technical Communication
About This Book
Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing the global community in the twenty-first century. With its position at the border of people, technology, science, and communication, technical communication has a significant role to play in helping to solve these complex environmental problems. This collection of essays engages scholars and practitioners in a conversation about how the field has contributed to pragmatic and democratic action to address climate change. Compared to most prior work—which offers theoretical perspectives of environmental communication—this collection explores the actual practice of international technical communicators who participate in government projects, corporate processes, nonprofit programs, and international agency work, demonstrating how technical communication theories such as participatory design, social justice, and ethics can help shape pragmatic environmental action.br>
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 When the Sound Is Frozen: Extracting Climate Data from Inuit Narratives
- Chapter 2 Boundary Waters: Deliberative Experience Design for Environmental Decision Making
- Chapter 3 In Defense of a Greenspace: Students Discover Agency in the Practice of Community-Engaged Technical Communication
- Chapter 4 Flood Insurance Rate Maps as Communicative Sites of Pragmatic Environmental Action
- Chapter 5 Collaborating for Clean Air: Virtue Ethics and the Cultivation of Transformational Service-Learning Partnerships
- Chapter 6 The Narrative of Silent Stakeholders: Reframing Local Environmental Communications to Include Global Human Impacts
- Chapter 7 Resilient Farmland: The Role of Technical Communicators
- Chapter 8 Writing for Clients, Writing for Change: Proposals, Persuasion, and Problem Solving in the Technical Writing Classroom
- Chapter 9 Health in the Shale Fields: Technical Communication and Environmental Health Risks
- Chapter 10 Participatory Policy: Enacting Technical Communication for a Shared Water Future
- Chapter 11 Rhino Crash: Teaching Science, Medical, and Environmental Writing for Social Action
- Epilogue Right Relation with the Whole World: Creating a Richer Polyvocality for Environmental Technical Communication
- Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover