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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Cagle’s materials were great fun to look over – Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">TLDR: Following is a recommendation for an edited collection, another textbook, an article, and an assignment that adds to Cagle’s suggestions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Paul, consider the following book despite the gratuitous self-promotion? Many of the names you’ll see in the ATTW list (including Cagle and Katz) contributed chapters to it.
<i>Scientific Communication: Practices, Theories, and Pedagogies</i>. Yu & Northcut, 2018. It was written to address the kind of question you’re asking, with evidence-based arguments across every chapter. Identifying real audiences for STEM student writing
emerges as a theme.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Another textbook (besides Katz and Penrose) I find very useful is House et al’s
<i>The Engineering Communication Manual</i>. It helps some folks break away from MLA style essays that they may otherwise default to when they think of “papers.” Cagle mentioned Wolfe’s book – she also had a great article in TCQ titled “How Technical Communication
Textbooks Fail Engineering Students,” much or all of which applies across sciences as well, and which we require graduate teaching assistants to read.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In various courses at Missouri S&T, we added some additional genres including hazard/warning signs, instructions, technical descriptions, and process analysis. In courses beyond the service course, white papers
and specialized reports have been assigned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I taught a one-off honors prof & business writing course for STEM majors in F21 in which the students had to determine the genre for the response, so it departed from the genre-focused approach. We examined
a case study of an explosion (through documents and a guest speaker who’d been a witness at the hearing). The explosion was in a St Louis facility and students were asked to “go back in time” and create a text that may have helped to prevent the disaster (people
were killed and wounded). They could use any genre, including a script for a telephone call they’d make or a watercooler conversation – any text they thought they could effectively prevent the explosion. The students claimed to really loathe the assignment,
but the evaluations of the course were high, and one student said she changed her major to tech com because of that course.
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Kathy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">ATTW-L <attw-l-bounces@attw.org> on behalf of Paul Sawyer <psawyer@selu.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 9:07 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>attw-l@attw.org <attw-l@attw.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[ATTW-L] STEM Targeted Intro TW Courses?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello everyone-- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">My department is thinking of offering some of our Intro to Technical Writing courses targeted specifically to our science-based/STEM majors on campus. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I'm having a hard time finding examples of universities that offer such a course. Does anyone know of/teach such a course at your university? I'm wondering what assignments would be in such a course?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks! I appreciate your help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">--Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Paul R. Sawyer, Ph.D.<br>
Professor of English<br>
Director, Technical and Professional Writing Program<br>
Southeastern Louisiana University<br>
SLU 10861--English Department<br>
Hammond, LA 70402<br>
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Voice: 985 549-5759<br>
Fax: 985 549-5021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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