Re: need recommendations for beginner-level TW books/textbooks and resources

["Patricia Egan" <capdev -dot- communications -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Lev,

You should contact the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. The
list manager is Sam Dragga at Texas Technical University, sam -dot- dragga -at- ttu -dot- edu
.

Pat

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Lev Abramov <lev -dot- abramov -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Erika Yanovich <ERIKA_y -at- rad -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > What would be the advantage of your material to already existing frontal
> or
> > online courses?
> > Erika
> >
>
> well... YATWC. Yet Another Technical Writing Course. With a solid
> background
> in online pedagogy, I expect the course to be pedagogically consistent
> (which is far from being always the case: I have seen lots of courses
> offering good materials at e-lecture level, but not enough in terms of
> training = activities that ensure skill development and transfer).
>
> I also expect the course to be almost entirely asynchronous to ensure it
> fully utilizes the main advantage of e-learning - Anytime Anywhere. Many
> courses either include residency requirements or too many synchronous
> activities, which effectively neutralizes the above advantage.
>
> Finally, I see this as an attempt to develop a course custom-tailored for a
> specific population from the point of view of their mother tongue (some of
> the participants are not native speakers of English) and future employment
> perspectives.
>
> So far, I have come across three titles that look promising:
>
> Technical Writing: A Practical Approach, 5th Ed.  (Pfeiffer, Paperback,
> Prentice Hall)
>
> Technical Writing: Process and Product, 4th Ed. (Illustrated)  (Gerson,
> Paperback, Prentice Hall)
>
> Technical Writing: Principles, Strategies, and Readings, 5th Ed.   (Reep,
> Paperback, Longman Pub Group )
>
> Any opinion about any one of these?
>
> TIA -
>
> Lev
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