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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Teaching a Distance Education Version of the Technical Communication Service Course: Timesaving Strategies
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Battalio, John T. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2006
The author has taught a distance education version of the undergraduate technical communication service course at Boise State University since 1997 and shares the strategies he has found to decrease the time instructors spend teaching online, thereby enabling them to use the time they do have to enhance their students' online experience. These…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Distance Education, Teaching Methods, Time Management
Extensible Markup Language: How Might It Alter the Software Documentation Process and the Role of the Technical Communicator?
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Battalio, John T. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2002
Describes the influence that Extensible Markup Language (XML) will have on the software documentation process and subsequently on the curricula of advanced undergraduate and master's programs in technical communication. Recommends how curricula of advanced undergraduate and master's programs in technical communication ought to change in order to…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Computer Software Development, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
The Interplay between Narrative, Education, and Exposition in an Emerging Science.
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Battalio, John T. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1996
Shows the path to professionalization through four phases of ornithological discourse history, drawing upon articles in "The Auk," published from 1890-90. States that, originally a single discourse form, the personal narrative of natural history served ornithological science. Finds that a gap between science and public understanding was reinforced…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities, Ornithology