IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Jan 1993

Contesting the objectivist paradigm: gender issues in the technical and professional communication curriculum

L.E. Brasseur

Abstract

The inclusion of a course in gender issues in a technical communication curriculum affords students the opportunity to confront objectivist and rationalist paradigms still found in the discourse of technical communication. The theoretical and practical foundations of a course that examines feminist inquiry into the production and dissemination of knowledge, as well as the language practices associated with professional writing and communication, are discussed. Issues of gender roles within organizational collaborative work groups, as well as issues related to gendered assumptions in science and technology, are also integral parts of the course design. A description of objectives, assignments, and tests for the course, as well as a full syllabus, are included.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>

Journal
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Published
1993-01-01
DOI
10.1109/47.238051
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Open Access
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Topics
discourse analysis curriculum design collaborative writing technical communication professional writing gender and writing
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