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ERIC Number: EJ640785
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0049-3155
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Challenges and Opportunities: Two Weeks of Teaching Technical Communication at Suzhou University, China.
Ding, Daniel; Jablonski, John
Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, v48 n4 p421-34 Nov 2001
Relates the authors' experience teaching technical writing for two weeks at Suzhou University in China. Discusses activities; examines four technical writing textbooks purchased there; and offers suggestions about how technical communication might be established as a separate academic discipline in Chinese universities. Discusses technical communication and human values in China, rhetorical issues, and offers some tentative conclusions. (SR)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Cultural Differences, Culture Contact, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Intercultural Communication, Technical Writing, Textbook Selection, Workshops
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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