Journal of Business and Technical Communication Oct 2003

A Case of Multiple Professionalisms

Ellen Barton Wayne State University ; Laurie Evans Wayne State University

Abstract

This article offers a retrospective case study of a service learning project in a technical writing class. For this project, students were asked to develop a communication tool with information about consent rates in organ donation to use in an academic medical center. In contrast to the service learning literature, which notes that students often resist the professionalizing move that service learning offers, this study shows that students in this project actually overprofessionalized, constituting themselves as one more party vying for control over the communication of organ donation. This embrace of professionalism via service learning raises as many issues as the resistance to professionalism that is more commonly documented.

Journal
Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Published
2003-10-01
DOI
10.1177/1050651903255303
Open Access
Closed
Topics
service learning qualitative research technical communication race and writing

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