Design Discourse - Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing, 2010a

DESIGN DISCOURSE
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 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.”
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, received honorable mention for the W. Ross
Winterowd Award for Best Book in Composition Theory (2007), and his blog,
Digital Digs (alex-reid.net), received the John Lovas Memorial Academic Weblog
award for contributions to the field of rhetoric and composition (2008).
Anthony Di Renzo teaches business and technical writing at Ithaca College,
where he developed a Professional Writing concentration for its B.A. in Writing.
His scholarship concentrates on the historical relationship between professional
writing and literature.
Perspectives on Writing
Series Editor, Michael Palmquist
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ISBN 978-0-97270-234-8