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The article focuses on transdisciplinarity involves coming together to solve a common problem. It mentions that as academics, pedagogical work has necessarily shifted in response to recent environmental crises in spaces including devastating fires, housing shortages, and pesticide poisoning. It also mentions that viewing environmental injustice as a shared problem for our disciplines.

In this article the author discusses that communicating with an audience is the point of publishing. It mentions that both composition and technical and professional communication (TPC) have changed dramatically in the past 40 years. It also mentions that composition studies has become a highly successful academic enterprise with respected journals, vigorous research agendas, theoretical debates, reputable graduate programs.

The article focuses on components of technical writing components to help prepare students to write for audiences beyond the classroom. It refers to the identification of everyday writing used on a job as an excellent opportunity to get students to realize the need of clear and consistent communication for their current and future jobs.

The article presents an interview of educators Katherine and Randy Bomer. Katherine discusses her approach towards writing and rewriting services with involvement in technical writing conditions. Randy states his and Katherine's association with Lucy Calkins that leads to mentoring services for teaching. Katherine mentions management of an equality that enhances teaching environment for students and teachers.

The article focuses on the need to develop middle grade students' scientific writing skills and presents an example of the students' response to the declining population of red pandas. Topics discussed include scientific investigation, the importance of group effort and collaboration, and the need for sharing research results. Also mentioned are written responses by the students to the declining population of red pandas, the discipline of scientific inquiry, and writing in this method.

The article presents the author's views on disciplinary writing style. It presents a study that focuses on the theoretical approaches to style and mentions the qualities of good scientific writing. It further discusses style ideologies and metaphors and approaches to analyzing stylistic understandings and practices.

An essay is presented on evaluation of writing programs by qualitative researches, which examines the relation between assessment, valuation and economics of first-year writing. It notes that labor terms in first-year academic writing complicates evaluation and consensus building processes. It mentions that assessment must acknowledge and represent dissonance along with the economics of staffing.

Several call for papers for the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) are presented, including the nominations for the CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award, nominations for the CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Awards, and the resolutions for the 2012 CCCC Resolutions Committee which can facilitate the efforts of the committee.

The article examines how genre changes in the ethnographic monograph supported anthropology's bid for scientific status in the early 20th century. It presents the concept of rhetorical scarcity, which combines spatial theories of genre with inflections from the register of economics, to characterize this genre change that creates manipulated rhetorical constraint. Furthermore, it discusses the significance of rhetorical scarcity in historicizing genre change.

The article focuses on the consideration of ethics as a form of critical and rhetorical inquiry in writing instruction in the U.S. It highlights the definition of critical thinking from the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) which has been associated with ethics. It highlights the book "Technical Communication Today," by Richard Johnson-Sheehan which stresses the significance of ethics in technical writing.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience in applying creativity upon teaching technical writing to her class.

The article offers some insights into the use of technical writing basics by a cohort of Lighthorse Police Officers from the Muscogee Creek Nation to record part of their family and clan history and to document their law enforcement careers and education. The technical writing exercise is part of an assignment for the police officers, the first among a group of tribal officers to pursue an associate of applied science degree in police science through Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City and the newly formed College of Muscogee Nation.

The article focuses on the application of niche-market and specialized magazines in teaching students the meaning and importance of audience. The author points out that audience is one of the most important concepts in technical writing. The author has created two exercises that require students to analyze and describe content from niche-market magazines. Significantly, teaching students to think in terms of specific audiences makes their writing much more relevant and useful. The exercises involves distinguishing technical and nontechnical magazines as well as male, female, and dual audiences.

This article focuses on the use of the Internet in multigenre writing and research projects. Multigenre writing and research is a model that provides the students the opportunity to express themselves. The Internet contains all the elements of an effective multigenre project. It became a reference library for most schools. However, it is recommended that students should be taught how to evaluate Web sources. As of 2006, the Internet continues to be more interactive. Technologies such as wikis and blogs are giving the students opportunities to publish in meaningful ways for real and varied audiences.

The article presents news briefs related to teaching and literary activities. John Lovas, De Anza College, Cupertino, California, is honored with Nell Ann Pickett Service Award for 2004. The Nell Ann Pickett Service Award is granted each year to an outstanding teacher. The Committee on Technical and Scientific Communication of National Council of Teachers in English has announced the winners of its awards for Excellence in Technical and Scientific Writing. The winner of "Teaching English in the Two Year Colleges," Best Article of the Year Award is won by Jay Simmons and Timothy McLaughlin for their article "Longer, Deeper, Better," which appeared in the May 2003 issue.

This article describes how a communications and engineering department developed collaborative teaching venture, a writing course, for technical students to write lab reports. The institution is a small technical university where the students take one semester of composition in their first year followed by either a technical writing course or a business writing course. Students may receive help from the Writing Center as well as from the Student Success Center. The efforts took off when the engineering counterparts approached the writing faculty with concerns that their students were facing difficulty to write their lab report. First, it was crucial to provide them with authentic models of lab reports and to ensure that they had access to expert mentors in both engineering and writing who would think aloud with them.

The article presents the author's experience of teaching technical students writing and presentation skills. The author informs that students were given the Service Manual series of assignments. It involved evaluating a technical manual, a letter of inquiry to the publisher requesting to use copyrighted information, and a memo to the instructor describing projected changes. It also included a revision and editing of representative pages from the manual, a formal report describing changes in detail with the actual revision attached as an appendix to the report, and a transmittal letter to the publisher introducing the report and revisions.

This article investigates both students' and instructors' perspectives on the use of shared-document projects in the technical writing classroom. Collaborative writing projects or shared document projects have many potential benefits, including their approximation of real life writing situations and the sense of community they promote within the classroom. However, Collaborative writing projects also may have significant costs for both students and instructors. Students complain about the perceived hazard the projects pose to their course grade. Instructors also struggle with practical and pedagogical issues.

The article offers information on the mock research paper. It states that one of the benefits of the mock research paper is that it reminds students to read critically. The author notes that the mock research paper combines creative writing with academic writing. The assignment given to students helps them focus on crafting an argument and learning genre conventions while postponing unit the actual research paper. He adds that students must also learn to read research paper reports with a critical mind since the mock research paper teaches these lessons.

The article announces awards, job vacancy and publication related to English teaching in the U.S. The winner of the 2003 Nell Ann Pickett Service Award is Frank Madden from New York. The Conference on College Composition and Communication is looking for a new editor for its College Composition and Communication. The Committee on Technical and Scientific Communication of National Council of Teachers of English presents the winners of its Awards for Excellence in Technical and Scientific Writing.

The article offers news brief related to the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) as of September 2017. Topics discussed include invitation of applications for the Exemplar Award by CCCC related to contribution in teaching profession; information on the Tribal College Faculty Fellowship services for provision of financial aid towards faculty members; and invitation of nominations for Dissertation Awards by teachers in technical writing.

The article presents the author's insights on her journey in academic writing. It mentions the mobilization of the common terminology of signpost and signal for the expansion of the metaphor of academic writing. Moreover, the challenge brought by the abstraction of the concept to consider specific examples is also discussed.

The article reports on developments related to education in the U.S. The Southeastern Writing Center Association's annual meeting on the theme "Vision and Revision: A Renaissance within the Writing Center" will take place on February 3-5, 2000. The Society for Technical Communication welcomes applications for Special Opportunities Grants to support projects that develop and communicate new information about the art and science of technical communication.

The article focuses on the writing studies that was considered as an academic discipline which is also called rhetoric and composition and was developed in response to new students attending college. Topics discussed include programs in technical writing, minors and majors in writing studies, and developing elaborated writing processes and choosing appropriate materials for a given purpose.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the previously published article "Connecting the Dots: Timed Writing Tests and Prewriting Activities," by Nancy Lawson Remier.

The article reports on the presentation of awards to the winners of the Committee on Technical and Scientific Communication of the National Council of Teachers of English Awards for Excellence in Technical and Scientific Writing during the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Denver, Colorado on March 14-17, 2001. "Writing in the Real World: Making the Transition From School to Work," by Anne Beaufort won the Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication. Best Article Reporting Historical Research or Textual Studies in Technical or Scientific Communication award was presented to Isabelle Thomas for her article "Women and Feminism in Technical Communication: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Journal Articles Published in 1989 through 1997."

The article reports on the developments related to higher education in the U.S. The TYCA-Southwest newsletter focus on issues relevant to two-year college English teachers. Newsletter editor Terry Stewart solicits scholarly and humorous articles about composition, technical writing, developmental writing, grammar and usage, literature, critical thinking, teaching strategies, and book reviews. The Political Information Committee gathers information at each conference about concerns such as censorship, teaching loads, student placement exams, dual credit, distance learning and part-time faculty. The goal of the committee is to gather and to disseminate information.