Building Problem Forums: On Troubleshooting in the Professional Writing Classroom

Kyle P. Vealey Purdue University West Lafayette

Abstract

This article describes the use of problem forums in undergraduate professional writing courses as a technique for facilitating and sustaining learning from increasingly complex, messy, and wicked problems that are characteristic of 21st-century work. Problem forums are designed to scaffold project team discussions of rhetorical, technical, or collaborative difficulties that have unexpectedly slowed or halted their work. Problem forums are thus intended to facilitate and sustain continual learning on project teams.

Journal
Business and Professional Communication Quarterly
Published
2016-06-01
DOI
10.1177/2329490615593371
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