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Front Matter
Acknowledgments
1. The Scale of Work in Technical Communication
2. Assumptions, Approaches, and Techniques of Corpus Analysis
3. Developing Questions
4. Building a Corpus
5. Analyzing a Corpus
6. Writing the Results
7. The Future of Corpus Analysis and Technical Communication
References
Glossary
About the Authors
Stephen Carradini is Assistant Professor of Technical Communication at Arizona State University. He studies and teaches emerging technologies in the workplace, social media, inter/disciplinarity, and methods. His work has been published at the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Technical Communication, Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, and New Media and Society, among others. He is the 2021 recipient of the Rising Star Award from the Association for Business Communication.
Jason Swarts is Professor and Head of English at North Carolina State University, where he specializes in the field of technical communication. He is a core faculty member in NC State’s M.S. program in Technical and Scientific Communication as well as in the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Ph.D. program. He focuses his research on technological mediation of writing practices, the rhetoric of technology, workplace communication, and emerging genres of technical communication. Previous work has appeared in Technical Communication Quarterly, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Technical Communication, and Written Communication. Over the years, his research has received a number of awards including NCTE Best Article on Theory or Philosophy of Technical or Scientific Communication (2005, 2009, 2011), the Nell Ann Pickett Award for Best Article in Technical Communication Quarterly (2007), and the Frank R. Smith Distinguished Article Award in Technical Communication (2013). His first book, Together With Technology (Baywood/Sage) received the NCTE Award for Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication (2009). He has also written Wicked, Incomplete, and Uncertain (2018) and with Cheryl Geisler completed Coding Streams of Language (The WAC Clearinghouse, 2019).
Foundations and Innovations in Technical and Professional Communication
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