Explores the origins of written communication to offer a counter-history to the separation of rhetoric/composition and technical/professional communication

Designers can create stronger products by considering multiple users with varied perspectives and thus create balance, termed equilibriUX, in their designs.

Explores the critical role that classroom educators play in supporting student motivation throughout the transition from high school to college.

This book addresses contemporary surveillance practices and examines technical communicators' roles in carrying them out.

Explores the teaching and learning of welding through two narratives: the personal narrative, relating the author's experience as a woman learning how to weld, and the academic narrative examining how instructional communication informs students' embodied knowledge and enculturation into a community of practice.

Offers an extended critique of key assumptions in composition theory and a new paradigm for thinking about writing in an increasingly globalized and textualized world.

Analyzing their own responses to national traumas, writing teachers question both the purposes and pedagogies of teaching writing.

Including interviews with several of America's leading environmental writers, this volume addresses the intersections between writing and nature.