Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing

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Edited by David Franke, Alex Reid, and Anthony DiRenzo Perspectives on Writing ( The WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press) Series Editor: Susan H. McLeod Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-165-3 (paperback, $32); 978-1-60235-166-0 (hardcover, $65); 978-1-60235-167-7 (PDF, $20). © 2010 by David Franke, Alex Reid, and Anthony DiRenzo. 340 pages, with illustrations, notes, and bibliography. Bookstores : Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. Description Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing addresses the complexities of developing professional and technical writing programs. The essays in the collection offer reflections on efforts to bridge two cultures—what the editors characterize as the “art and science of writing”—often by addressing explicitly the tensions between them. Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing offers insights into the high-stakes decisions made by program designers as they seek to “function at the intersection of the practical and the abstract, the human and the technical.” Contributors include Diana L. Ashe, Brian D. Ballentine, Kelly Belanger, Julianne Couch, Anthony Di Renzo, James M. Dubinsky, Jude Edminster, David Franke, Gary Griswold, Dev Hathaway, Brent Henze, Colin K. Keeney, Michael Knievel, Carla Kungl, Carol Lipson, Andrew Mara, Jim Nugent, Anne Parker, Jonathan Pitts, Alex Reid, Colleen A. Reilly, Wendy B. Sharer, Christine Stebbins, and Janice Tovey. About the Editors David Franke teaches at SUNY Cortland, where he served as director of the professional writing program. He founded and directs the Seven Valleys Writing Project at SUNY Cortland, a site of the National Writing Project. Alex Reid teaches at the University at Buffalo. His book, The Two Virtuals: New Media And Composition (Parlor Press, 2007) received honorable mention for the W. Ross Winterowd Award for Best Book in Composition Theory, and