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ERIC Number: EJ1083637
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Jan
Pages: 32
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0047-2816
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Are We "There" Yet? the Treatment of Gender and Feminism in Technical, Business, and Workplace Writing Studies
White, Kate; Rumsey, Suzanne Kesler; Amidon, Stevens
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, v46 n1 p27-58 Jan 2016
This article reexamines the treatment of gender and feminism in technical, business, and workplace writing studies--areas in which the three of us teach. Surprisingly, the published discourse of our field seems to implicitly minimize the gendered nature of business and technical writing workplaces and classrooms. To understand this apparent lack of focus, we review five technical and business communication academic journals and build on previous quantitative evaluations done by Isabelle Thompson in 1999 and by Isabelle Thompson Elizabeth Overman Smith in 2006. We also review nine popular textbooks using a content analysis method based on Thompson's work. Finally, we discuss current research in feminist pedagogies vis-à-vis these results and our own experiences in the professional writing classroom.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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