Designing effective Internet assignments in introductory technical communication courses

Author

Gambrell, Patricia Goubil

Author_Institution

Dept. of English, Texas Tech. Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA

Volume

39

Issue

4

fYear

1996

fDate

12/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

224

Lastpage

231

Abstract

The article discusses how assignments using the Internet can be integrated in an introductory technical communication course without compromising two fundamental pedagogical goals of the course: teaching students how to gather data and how to evaluate it. Three traditional introductory technical communication course assignments (instructions, literature review, and analytical report) that utilize Internet resources to achieve these two goals are described

Keywords

Internet; business data processing; computer aided instruction; educational courses; teaching; technical presentation; Internet assignments; Internet resources; analytical report; instructions; introductory technical communication courses; literature review; pedagogical goals; teaching; traditional introductory technical communication course assignments; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Computer interfaces; Computer mediated communication; Curriculum development; Internet; Online Communities/Technical Collaboration; Professional communication; Testing; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0361-1434

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/47.544578

Filename

544578