Discourse Interaction between Writer and Supervisor: A Primary Collaboration in Workplace Writing

10.2190/cwic5 ◽  
1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Couture
Keyword(s):  
Workplace Writing

Book Review: Workplace writing: Beyond the text by Bremner, S.

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 506-509
Author(s):  
Lenny Grant ◽  
Priscilla S. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Workplace Writing

scholarly journals 32. Teaching Writing Skills That Enhance Student Success in Future Employment

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 195 ◽  
Author(s):  
James P. Coyle
Keyword(s):  
Work Performance ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Workplace Writing ◽  
Effective Work ◽  
Writing Courses ◽  
Learning Modules ◽  
College And University ◽  
University Courses ◽  
Workplace Needs

The ability to write well is often critical for effective work performance. Although basic writing courses provide a foundation for college and university students, discipline-specific writing tasks and methods are frequently learned indirectly. Incorporating occupational writing skills in course curriculum better prepares students for future employment. This paper suggests a three-step process for teaching pertinent writing skills in college and university courses: identify writing skills relevant to post-graduation occupations, include writing in course learning modules, and assess writing skills with assignments that mirror workplace writing tasks. Balancing curricular learning with these workplace needs is an ongoing challenge for instructors.

scholarly journals A More Perfect Pickering Test: Janus v. AFSCME Council 31 and the Problem of Public Employee Speech

2020 ◽  
pp. 671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Gilewicz
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Public Employee ◽  
Equal Weight ◽  
Balance Test ◽  
Workplace Writing ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Public Sector Employee ◽  
Broad Interpretation ◽  
Employee Union ◽  
The Individual

n June 2018, the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited—and, for the American labor movement, long-feared—decision in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31. The decision is expected to have a major impact on public sector employee union membership but could have further impact on public employees’ speech rights in the workplace. Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito’s broad interpretation of whether work-related speech constitutes a “matter of public concern” may have opened the floodgates to substantially more litigation by employees asserting that their employers have violated their First Amendment rights. Claims that would have previously been unequivocally foreclosed may now be permitted. This Note proposes a test to allow courts to meaningfully respond to this influx of claims. By explicitly incorporating the “social value” of public employee speech into the Pickering balance test as a factor of equal weight alongside the existing factors—the individual employee’s right to speech and the employer’s interest in operating an effective workplace—courts can make meaningful sense of the doctrinal conflict Janus created while also respecting and promoting the unique role public employee speech plays in public discourse.

Building a Workplace Writing Center

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Weber Metzenroth
Keyword(s):  
Writing Center ◽  
Workplace Writing

Cut and Paste

2011 ◽  
pp. 299-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Logie
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Workplace Writing ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
Technical Writers ◽  
Limited Applicability ◽  
Composition Pedagogies ◽  
Technical And Professional Communication ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

This chapter posits a widening gap between workplace writing practices and traditional composition pedagogies. In particular, this chapter suggests that traditional composition pedagogies persist in foregrounding solitary, proprietary authors as model composers, despite the limited applicability of these models. The fields of technical and professional communication, by contrast, have long valued collaboration and modes of authorship that do not always imply the composer’s ownership of a given text. These fields’ biases are reinforced by the advent of digital media, and the Internet in particular. Digital technologies facilitate collaboration and promote a greater range of authorial stances than their print counterparts. The chapter concludes by offering pedagogical approaches directed at promoting composition pedagogies commensurate with the challenges faced by professional and technical writers working in digital composing spaces.

Transformation-Based Database Engineering

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Hainaut
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Workplace Writing ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
Technical Writers ◽  
Limited Applicability ◽  
Composition Pedagogies ◽  
Technical And Professional Communication ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

This chapter posits a widening gap between workplace writing practices and traditional composition pedagogies. In particular, this chapter suggests that traditional composition pedagogies persist in foregrounding solitary, proprietary authors as model composers, despite the limited applicability of these models. The fields of technical and professional communication, by contrast, have long valued collaboration and modes of authorship that do not always imply the composer’s ownership of a given text. These fields’ biases are reinforced by the advent of digital media, and the Internet in particular. Digital technologies facilitate collaboration and promote a greater range of authorial stances than their print counterparts. The chapter concludes by offering pedagogical approaches directed at promoting composition pedagogies commensurate with the challenges faced by professional and technical writers working in digital composing spaces.

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