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Monday, July 18th
Registration 8:30-9:15
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Monday 9:15-10:25
Opening and Keynote
Room: KBG12
Zoom Meeting ID: 85614090379 | Passcode: 590098
- Teaching to Become: Identity, Language, and Pedagogy in Engineering Communication
- Marie Paretti
- Situated theories of learning highlight the ways in which learning is not simply the accumulation of knowledge or the development of skills, but the construction of identity. And scholars in writing studies and sociolinguistics have long examined the ways in which identities are constructed discursively – in how we use language and position ourselves, and in how others talk about and position us. But what identities are available to students in our professional communication classrooms? Who are we asking them to become as they learn the genres of their intended professions, the strategies for adapting their communication based on the rhetorical situation, the audience, the purpose? Drawing on recent studies that include both students’ experiences of writing in engineering courses and new graduates experiences of the transition from school to work, I invite us to consider what happens when we consider the teaching and learning of professional communication through the lens of identity work.
- Marie Paretti received the B.S. degree in Chemical Engineeringand the M.A. degree in English from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA, in 1986 and 1990, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA, in 1997. She is currently a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Drawing on theories of situated learning and social construction, her work includes multiple studies funded by the US National Science Foundation on the teaching and learning of communication, effective teaching practices in design education, the development of professional identities, the dynamics of cross-disciplinary collaboration in academia and industry, and inclusion and equity in engineering.
Monday 10:25-10:30
Break
Monday 10:30-12:00
Paper Session: Communication for special purposes: Broadening the View of ProComm
Room: KBG11 | Time: 10:30-11:15
Zoom Meeting ID: 85808984584 | Passcode: 065169
- User support for the elderly. An interview study
- Eva-Maria Jakobs, Simone Wirtz-Brueckner
- In-person
- Quality Criteria of Conflict Communication for Infrastructure Projects
- Nils Helmuth, Eva-Maria Jakobs
- In-person
- Justifying innovations in a start-up accelerator program: how entrepreneurs create value through pitch discourse
- German Varas, Omar Sabaj
- Hybrid
Paper Session: Understanding how disciplines see the work of professional communication
Room: KBG11 | 11:15-12:00
Zoom Meeting ID: 85808984584 | Passcode: 065169
- Connecting analysis, disciplinary culture and technical writing in a computing context
- Michelle Trim, Siobhan Mei and Justin Obara
- In-person
- What are engineers looking for in professional communication training?
- Alan Chong
- In-person
- 100% Say Writing Is Important to Their Work: Of Course, Yet How Does This Easy Fact Do Harm? Results from a Survey of Scientists and Technical Professionals on Their Attitudes Towards and Practices For Writing and Communication
- Sarah Read
- In-person
Workshop: Optimal feedback for students: How to implement feedback mechanisms in our education that respond to students’ needs?
- Room: KBG13 | Time: 10:30-12:00
Zoom Meeting ID: 92465986443 | Passcode: 275400 - Anna Bos-Nehles, Alieke van Dijk, Veronica Junjan, Joyce Karreman, Ipek Seyran Topan
- Hybrid
Workshop: Like the idea of writing to learn, but don’t like the idea of grading papers? We have four ideas that are not too good to be true.
- Room: KBG14 | Time: 10:30-12:00
Zoom Meeting ID: 99751134302 | Passcode: 703427 - Joe Moses and Jason Tham
- In-person
Monday 12:00-13:00
Lunch Provided
Monday 13:00-14:30
Paper Session: Teaching for transfer in engineering and technical communication courses
Room: KBG13 | 13:00-13:45
Zoom Meeting ID: 92465986443 | Passcode: 275400
- Examining proposal writing courses to bolster student skills that apply to all fundraising rhetorical situations
- Mika Stepankiw
- In-person
- Teaching Engineering Writing through Rhetorical Genre Studies
- Erik Juergensmeyer
- In-person
- Exploring transfer in a vertical writing curriculum for technical and professional writing student
- Sarah Zurhellen, Sarah Beth Hopton
- Hybrid
Paper Session: How can we do better? Access and effectiveness in technical communication
Room: KBG13 |13:45-14:30
Zoom Meeting ID: 92465986443 | Passcode: 275400
- Rhetorical Accessibility as Political Legitimacy: The Role of Style in NSA Surveillance Discourse
- Calvin Pollak
- Hybrid
- Metonymic Technical Writing for the 737 Max: Appropriate Genres, Effective Procedures
- Joseph Jeyaraj
- In-person
- Anti-Racism, Linguistic Diversity, and Technical Editing
- Amy Hodges, Tim Ponce
- In-person
Panel: Intercultural Professional Communication in Community
- Room: KBG11 | Time: 13:00-14:30
Zoom Meeting ID: 85808984584 | Passcode: 065169 - Nora Rivera, Shewonda Leger, Mckinley Green, Raquelle Paulsen, Valentina Sierra Nino, Victor Del Hierro and Laura Gonzales
- In-person
Panel: Investigating Job Advertisements as Interdisciplinary Research
- Room: KBG14 | Time: 13:00-14:30
Zoom Meeting ID: 99751134302 | Passcode: 703427 - Bremen Vance, Allison Hutchison, Samantha Cosgrove, Ronin Sharma, Sonia Verma, Kimberly Lopez, Johan Bregler, Paul Beck and Angela Liu
- Hybrid
Monday 14:30-14:50
Break
Monday 14:50-15:50
Paper Session: The guides that bind us: analyzing impact of core and supplemental documentation
Room: KBG11 | 14:50-15:50
Zoom Meeting ID: 85808984584 | Passcode: 065169
- Content Audit and Gap Analysis of Perl's Core Documentation
- Khawar Latif Khan
- In-person
- Inclusive Editing: Actionable Recommendations for Editors and Instructors
- Zarah Moeggenberg, Hannah Stevens, Rebecca Walton, Jamal-Jared Alexander
- In-person
- The Case for Supplemental Style Guides in Professional and Technical Communication
- Allison Durazzi
- In-person
- Facial Recognition Technology Codes of Ethics: Rhetorical and Content Analysis and Review
- Aimee Roundtree
- In-person
Paper Session: Collaborators as communicators: supporting team success
Room: KBG13 | 14:50-15:50
Zoom Meeting ID: 92465986443 | Passcode: 275400
- Distant Collaborations: Designing for Australia, Ireland, Qatar, and the USA
- John Sherrill, Michael Salvo
- Hybrid
- Peer Feedback in Linked Courses: Perceptions of Benefits and Problems
- Olga Menagarishvili, Andy Frazee and Rebecca Burnett
- Hybrid/In-person
- Assessing equity and inclusion in research teams through constructive distributed work
- Shelton Weech, Hadi Riad Banat, Michelle McMullin, Aleksandra M. Swatek, Anuj Gupta and Bradley Dilger
- Hybrid
- A Life-skills Course for Engineers to Acquire Communication Skills and Team Skills
- Divya John
- In-person
Paper Session: Tales from the trenches: teaching technical communication in a changing classroom landscape
Room: KBG14 | 14:50-15:50
Zoom Meeting ID: 99751134302 | Passcode: 703427
- Developing, Pilot-Testing, and Evaluating an Approach to Teach Technical and Professional Communication Skills in an Introductory Engineering Cours
- Maha Issa, Sara Khaddaj, Dima Al Hassanieh and Niveen Abighannam
- In-person
- User-centered Design (UCD) and Transcreation of Non-profit Communications in a Technical Communication Classroom
- Jessica Campbell and David Katan
- Hybrid
- Bringing the World: Capitalizing on Multilingual and Multicultural Sources in Technical and Professional Communication Classroom
- Shuwen Li
- Hybrid
Paper Session: Interpreting and interpretive rhetorics
Room: KBG15 | 14:50-15:50
Zoom Meeting ID: 94460191386 | Passcode: 562068
- Loyalty strategies in Latin American SMEs: a systematic review of scientific literature between 2012 and 2021
- Franklin Cordova Buiza and Rocio del Pilar Paredes-Vásquez
- Hybrid
- Rhetorical Listening in the Archives: Saturday Tapes interviews with Janice Lauer Rice
- Jessica Lauer and Alexis Piper
- In-person
- Kairos as a Heuristic for Analyzing Professional Discourses
- Karen Gulbrandsen
- Hybrid
Monday 15:50-16:10
Break
Monday 16:10-17:10
Monday 17:10-17:20
Break
Monday 17:20-18:20
Paper Session: Reimagining technical communication and user experience through a social justice lens
Room: KBG14 | 17:20-18:20
Zoom Meeting ID: 99751134302 | Passcode: 703427
- Localized Usability and Agency in App Design to Accommodate China’s Social and Healthcare Exigency
- Hua Wang
- Hybrid
- (Un)housed and (Un)heard: The Power of Narrative in Reimagining Long-Term Crisis Communication
- Elena Kalodner-Martin
- In-person
- A Meaningful Image for All: The Rhetoric of Writing Alt-Text
- Sherena Huntsman
- Emily Bowers, Emma Harris, Ruby Mendoza
- UX Methods as Transformative Institutional Change: Stacey Abrams’ Georgia Campaign as a Formative Example
- Emily Bowers, Emma Harris, Ruby Mendoza
- In-person
Paper Session: New initiatives to increase access and engagement in research and teaching
Room: KBG11 | 17:20-18:20
Zoom Meeting ID: 85808984584 | Passcode: 065169
- Reshaping the Philosophical Backdrop for Learning Disability-inclusive User Experience Design: the Case of a Socially-Aware Student Project
- Sushil Oswal
- Hybrid
- Authentic Practice: Using Online Simulations to Teach Professional Writing
- Jon Balzotti, Jason Mcdonald, Melissa Franklin and Lila Rice
- In-person
- International Graduate Students' Experiences in Teaching and Learning Academic Writing in Engineering: A Case of a Genre-Analysis Course
- Rabail Qayyum and Helaleh Khoshkam
- Hybrid
- NSF Merit Review Criteria as Points of Entry for Advancing Social Justice
- Elizabeth Pitts
- In-person
Paper Session: Re-thinking visuals: research-informed approaches to instruction and interpretation
Room: KBG13 | 17:20-18:20
Zoom Meeting ID: 92465986443 | Passcode: 275400
- Data visualizations: A meta-synthesis review of empirical studies across disciplines
- Carolyn Gubala and Lisa Meloncon
- In-person
- Re-thinking the role of the visual in professional communication: The case for a liberal arts core
- Eva Brumberger
- Hybrid
- How People are Influenced by Deceptive Tactics in Everyday Charts and Graphs
- Claire Lauer
- In-person