Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Roles and Power

We've talked a lot about TC roles in the classroom and in industry. As you think about Slack, Miller, and Doak and Barton and Barton, think back on the ideas we've gleaned from other readings and how they might apply. If you have the time, it might be helpful to pull a line or two that you underlined or noted before as we try to connect that to the new readings and expand upon them.
Some questions to consider:
  • How do we create our roles and how do we normalize them?
  • Who is empowered by our roles and our creation of them? Who has a say in that creation?
And one I'm sure you all want to see again...
  • What is technical communication?
We won't necessarily discuss these questions, but it would be helpful to review them. Take a quick look at your notes/the course schedule and decide who answers these questions and how they give us a foundation for understanding roles, power, knowledge construction, identity, and definition as we see them in the two articles for tomorrow.

Here's hoping that somebody actually reads this.

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