Title :
Designing effective Internet assignments in introductory technical communication courses
Author :
Gambrell, Patricia Goubil
Author_Institution :
Dept. of English, Texas Tech. Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA
fDate :
12/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on
