Topics for Background Reports

Back to Bernhardt's Class Teaching Technical and Professional Communication

Applying Classical Rhetoric Principles

Applying Ethnographic Research Findings

Case Studies/Ethnographies of Professional Communication

Composing Processes of Professional Writers

Developing Teamwork/Collaborative Skills

Distance Education in Technical Communication

Document Development Processes

Evaluating Instruction, Learning, and/or Programs

Evaluating Web Resources

Getting into Training and Consulting

Implementing a Critical Pedagogy

Instructional Design

Responding to Student Writing

Service Learning

Teaching a Specific Genre (i.e., proposals, technical reports, computer documentation, procedures)

Teaching Basic Skills in the Workplace

Teaching Ethics in Technical and Professional Communication

Teaching Invention

Teaching Oral Communication Skills

Teaching Organization and Structure

Teaching Presentation Skills

Teaching Project Management

Teaching Students to Design Effective Documents

Teaching Students to Work with and Present Data

Teaching Style

Teaching TechPrep and Applied Communication Courses

Teaching Thinking and Problem Solving Skills

Teaching Writing Online

Using Client-Based Projects as a Teaching Approach

Writing within a Specific Field (Choose one: engineering, biology, medicine, law, accounting, etc.)