| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 290 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
ATTW Series in Technical and Professional Communication |
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ATTW book series in technical and professional communication
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Toward an Audience-Centered Approach: Rhetorical Analysis of University Crisis Communication Emails -- Embodied Risk Communication in the COVID-19 Pandemic Environment -- Judging the Unprecedented: Common Sense and Risk During COVID-19 -- First-Year College Students Challenging Embodied Environmental Risk -- The Ohio River: Re-Imagining Water Risk through Embodied Deliberation -- Private Groundwater Contamination and Integrated Risk Communication -- Public Responses to a Proposed Wind Farm and their Application to Technical Communication Methods -- Evaluating Ecological Perceptions and Approaches in the Fourth National Climate Assessment Report -- Reconciling Gestures: Overcoming Obstacles to Transcultural Risk Communication in South African Coal Mines -- Reanimating Risks: Forest Giants and their Role in Technical Communication -- Technical Writing as Embodiment: iFixit -- Changing Places:Understanding Climate Change Risk Communication and Comprehension through Socially Constructed FEatures of Place -- An Antiracist Rhetoric of Embodied Risk |
| Summary |
This collection calls for improved technical communication for the public through an embodied, situated understanding of environmental risk that promotes social justice. In addition to providing a series of chapters about recent issues on risk communication, this volume offers a diverse look at methodological practices for students, researchers, and practitioners looking to address embodied aspects of crisis and risk that incorporate user experience, storytelling, and dynamic text. It includes chapters that bring embodiment to the forefront of risk communication, highlighting the cycle of content creation, dissemination, public response and decision making, continuing iterations of educational efforts, and recovery, toward increasing adaptive capacity as a whole. In addition, this work directs necessary attention to overcoming perceptual difficulties, memory lapses, definitional differences, access issues, and pedagogical problems in the communication of risks to diverse publics. This collection is essential reading for scholars and can be used as a supplemental text or casebook for courses in technical communication, environmental communication, risk and crisis communication, science communication, and public health. publisher |
| Notes |
Originally published, Routledge, 2017 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Samuel Stinson is Assistant Professor of English with Minot State University where he also serves as the director of the Northern Plains Writing Project and coordinator of the English concentration in the M. Ed. program. He also serves as a list manager for the WritingStudies-L listserv and currently co-coordinates the Writing about Writing special interest group with the Conference on College Composition and Communication. His research interests are in professional writing, multimodality, game studies, and pedagogy. His current research focuses on writing transfer and online platforms. Mary Le Rouge is Director of Writing at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She also volunteers as Associate Publisher for Monographs, Collections, and Conference Proceedings at the WAC Clearinghouse, an open-source publisher for the field of writing studies. She is an active member of the Conference on College Composition & Communication and its Environmental Special Interest Group, among other organizations. Her research lies at the intersection of the humanities and the sciences, looking for ways to improve communication between experts, policymakers, and the public |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed 29 March 2022) |
| Subject |
Communication of technical information -- Environmental aspects
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Communication in the environmental sciences.
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Sustainability -- Social aspects
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Risk communication.
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TECHNOLOGY -- Technical Writing.
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NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
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Communication in the environmental sciences
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Risk communication
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stinson, Samuel, 1980- editor
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Le Rouge, Mary, editor
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| ISBN |
9781003266549 |
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1003266541 |
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9781000548884 |
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1000548880 |
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9781000548921 |
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1000548929 |
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