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Expanding English studies to include workplace writing: imagining real change or re-inventing the wheel?

Expanding English studies to include workplace writing: imagining real change or re-inventing the... Book Commentary 23 Explores the need for balance between supporting and critiquing workplace practice. Expanding English Studies to Include Workplace Writing: Imagining Real Change or Re-Inventing the Wheel? M. Ann Brady English Department Santa Clara University 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95053 abradyaschauer@scu.edu There are many reasons to recommend Expanding Literacies: English Teachingand the Workplace to those interested in studying and teaching professional communication. Not the least of these is that the eighteen-essay volume reminds us, implicitly at least, that we are as responsible for critiquing and rethinking workplace practice as we are for reshaping our pedagogy. Edited by Mary Sue Garay and Stephen A. Bernhardt, Expanding Literacies describes a new, and progressive, workplace where all employees participate fully in an organization's life, taking responsibility for forging its goals and benefiting from their realization. It also demonstrates how English language teachers, at different educational levels, have designed assignments which give students practice in producing the kinds of texts found in the workplace. What the collection does not offer is resistance to conventional notions of teachers serving industry uncritically,reviewing and revising their pedagogy without asking for what purpose and for whose benefit. To its credit, the collection http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation Association for Computing Machinery

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Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Copyright
Copyright © 1999 by ACM Inc.
ISSN
0731-1001
DOI
10.1145/339119.339140
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Abstract

Book Commentary 23 Explores the need for balance between supporting and critiquing workplace practice. Expanding English Studies to Include Workplace Writing: Imagining Real Change or Re-Inventing the Wheel? M. Ann Brady English Department Santa Clara University 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95053 abradyaschauer@scu.edu There are many reasons to recommend Expanding Literacies: English Teachingand the Workplace to those interested in studying and teaching professional communication. Not the least of these is that the eighteen-essay volume reminds us, implicitly at least, that we are as responsible for critiquing and rethinking workplace practice as we are for reshaping our pedagogy. Edited by Mary Sue Garay and Stephen A. Bernhardt, Expanding Literacies describes a new, and progressive, workplace where all employees participate fully in an organization's life, taking responsibility for forging its goals and benefiting from their realization. It also demonstrates how English language teachers, at different educational levels, have designed assignments which give students practice in producing the kinds of texts found in the workplace. What the collection does not offer is resistance to conventional notions of teachers serving industry uncritically,reviewing and revising their pedagogy without asking for what purpose and for whose benefit. To its credit, the collection

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ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer DocumentationAssociation for Computing Machinery

Published: Nov 1, 1999

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