New: Keywords in Technical and Professional Communication (Book from WAC Clearinghouse)

Hi Folks,

I’m pleased to share the news that the WAC Clearinghouse (https://wac.colostate.edu) has released another open-access book. It appears in the Foundations and Innovations in Technical and Professional Communication book series, which is edited by Lisa Melonçon.

Keywords in Technical and Professional Communication

Edited by Han Yu and Jonathan Buehl

Keywords in Technical and Professional Communication explores the multiple and sometimes conflicting uses of terms central to the discipline of technical and professional communication (TPC). Each keyword was selected through a multi-stage process that involved corpus analysis of journal publications and surveys of technical communication scholars, educators, and practitioners. Written by experts who have published extensively on the concepts underlying each keyword, each essay provides a history and/or a summary of the changing contemporary and disciplinary contexts in which the keyword has been used, discusses the debates surrounding the term, considers the critical lenses shaping our understanding of it, and discusses how the term could be used in the future and/or whether it needs to be rethought in our current environment.

You can find the book at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/tpc/tpc/. This book, like other books published by the Clearinghouse, will be available in a print edition from University Press of Colorado in the coming months. Thanks to Han, Jonathan, and the chapter authors for their work on the book and for their decision to share it with us as an open-access publication. Thanks as well to the anonymous peer reviewers who contributed to its development.

All the best,

Mike

Mike Palmquist

Publisher, The WAC Clearinghouse

https://wac.colostate.edu