[ATTW-L] Keywords in Technical Communication: A collection in progress

[Han Yu]

Thank you to all who have had the chance to help with our Keywords in
Technical Communication survey. We are very grateful for your input!

I can see that many of you are interested and consented to participating
but just didn't get the chance to finish. Please know that we are still
very much interested in your input. You do not have to complete all
questions. However much you say will help our later analysis. For your
convenience, here's the survey link again: survey
<https://kstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_25X7Laa0ecSGvhH> (to copy the
link address, please use
https://kstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_25X7Laa0ecSGvhH).

Thank you and please let us know if you have any questions!

Best wishes,
Han and Jonathan


Han Yu, PhD
Professor, Scientific/Technical Communication
Kansas State University
130 E/CS, 785-532-3339


On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 1:53 PM Han Yu <hyu1 at ksu.edu> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
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> We hope this email finds you enjoying your summer! Jonathan Buehl and I
> are planning a collection titled *Keywords in Technical Communication*,
> and we write to ask for your expertise, which you can share through the
> short survey linked toward the end of this message.
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> As you may know, keywords books use mini-essays to describe, explain,
> untangle, and (un)complicate terms that are key to a discipline. These
> mini-essays are meant to be accessible and particularly useful to students
> and newcomers to a field. Although there are excellent keywords collections
> for Composition Studies (Heilker and Vandenberg, 1996) and Writing
> Studies (Heilker and Vandenberg, 2015), such a collection does not yet
> exist for Technical Communication.
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> To identify the keywords for the collection, Jonathan and I are completing
> a two-step process. First, we analyzed a corpus of 10 years’ worth of
> journal publications in the field to generate an initial list. (The method
> for this corpus analysis will be described in the introduction of the
> collection.) As a second step, we want to collect your thoughts about the
> terms on that list and any terms it may be missing.
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> To that end, we invite you to participate in a short survey
> <https://kstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_25X7Laa0ecSGvhH> (to copy the
> link address, please use
> https://kstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_25X7Laa0ecSGvhH). The survey is
> approved by the Kansas State University IRB (#9804). It will take
> approximately 8-20 minutes to complete, depending on how much input you may
> have. We deeply appreciate your help and expertise.
>
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> If you have any questions, please feel free to let us know!
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> Thanks again,
>
> Han and Jonathan
>
>
> Han Yu, PhD
> Professor, Scientific/Technical Communication
> Kansas State University
> 130 E/CS, 785-532-3339
>
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