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Todd, Jeff – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2008
In 1992, the American Bar Association released the MacCrate Report, which listed the ten skills and four professional values that all attorneys need and critiqued law schools and state bars for not doing enough to teach and encourage the development of these skills and values. In response, law schools have significantly increased the skills-based…
Descriptors: Legal Education (Professions), Law Schools, Performance Tests, Lawyers
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Todd, Jeff – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2003
Provides and defends four guidelines as a foundation to study ways to incorporate history into classroom lessons: maintain a continued research interest in teaching history; limit to technical rather than scientific discourse; focus on English-language texts; and focus on American texts, authors, and practices. Works within the guidelines to show…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Research, English Instruction, Higher Education
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Todd, Jeff – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2000
Supplements existing rhetorical scholarship by returning to the notion of invention as general preparation of the communicator. Explores the need for invention in technical communication and summarizes Kenneth Burke's theories of dialectic and rhetoric. Presents strategies for invention, and offers advice for incorporating them into teaching…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Rhetorical Invention, Writing (Composition), Writing Improvement
Todd, Jeff – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2003
The first part of this article shows that research in the history of technical communication has increased in quantity and sophistication over the last 20 years. Scholarship that describes how to teach with that information, however, has not followed, even though teaching the history of the field is a need recognized by several scholars. The…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Guidelines, Teaching Methods, History Instruction