Recommended Readings in

Teaching Technical and Professional Communication


Bernhardt, English 572 Bibliography


Anderson, Paul V., R. John Brockmann, and Carolyn R. Miller. New Essays in Scientific and Technical Communication. Farmingdale, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, 1983.

Barton, David, and Roz Ivanic (Eds.). Writing in the Community. Newbury Park: Sage, 1991.

Bazerman, Charles and James Paradis (Eds.). Textual Dynamics of the Professions. Madison: UW Press, 1991.

Beene, Lynn, and Peter White (Eds.). Solving Problems in Technical Writing. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Blyler, Nancy Roundy, and Charlotte Thralls (Eds.). Professional Communication: The Social Perspective. Newbury Park: Sage, 1993.

Bosley, Deborah. Global Contexts: Case Studies in International Technical Communication. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2001.

Broadhead, Glen and Richard Freed. The Variables of Composition. Carbondale: SIU Press, 1986.

Dobrin, David. Writing and Technique. Urbana: NCTE, 1989.

Doheny-Farina, Stephen. Rhetoric, Innovation, Technology: Case Studies of Technical Communication in Technology Transfers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992.

Dombrowski, Paul. Ethics in Technical Communication. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2000.

Dragga, Sam. Technical Writing: Student Samples and Teacher Responses. St. Paul: ATTW, 1992. Full online text available at the ATTW website.

Ede, Lisa, and Andrea Lunsford. Collaborative Writing: The Theory and Practice of Group Authorship. Carbondale: SIU Press, 1990.

Fearing, Bertie, and W. Keats Sparrow (Eds.). Technical Writing: Theory and Practice. New York: MLA, 1989.

Garay, Mary Sue, and Stephen A. Bernhardt. Expanding Literacies: English Teaching and the New Workplace. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998.

Hoft, Nancy. International Technical Communication. New York: Wiley, 1995

Kogen, Myra. Writing in the Business Professions. Urbana: NCTE, 1989.

Kostelnick, Charles, and David D. Roberts. Designing Visual Language. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1998.

Kynell, Teresa C., and Wendy Krieg Stone. Scenarios for Technical Communication: Critical Thinking and Writing. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1999.

Lay, Mary, and William M. Karis (Eds.). Collaborative Writing in Industry: Investigations in Theory and Practice. Amityville, NY: Baywood Press, 1991.

Lovitt, Carol and Dixie Goswami. Exploring the Rhetoric of International Professional Communication. Amityvillw, NY: Baywood Publishers, 1999.

Lutz, Jean, and C. Gilbert Storms. The Practice of Technical and Scientific Communication: Writing in Professional Contexts. Ablex/ATTW, 1998.

Matalene, Carolyn B., ed. Worlds of Writing: Teaching and Learning in Discourse Communities of Work. New York: Random House, 1989.

Odell, Lee, and Dixie Goswami. Writing in Non-Academic Settings. New York: Guilford Press: 1985.

Schrage, Michael. No More Teams: Mastering the Dynamics of Creative Collaboration. New York: Currency Doubleday, 1995. (Revision of Shared Minds, Random House, 1990.)

Seely Brown, John, and Paul Duguid. The Social Life of Information. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000.

Schriver, Karen. Dynamics in Document Design. New York, Wiley, 1997.

Sides, Charles (Ed.). Technical and Business Communication: Bibliographic Essays for Teachers and Corporate Trainers. Urbana: NCTE, 1989.

Selber, Stuart (Ed.). Computers and Technical Communication: Pedagogical and Programmatic Perspectives. Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1998.

Sullivan, Patricia, and Jennie Dautermann. Electronic Literacies in the Workplace: Technologies of Writing. Urbana: NCTE, 1996.

Spilka, Rachel (Ed.). Writing in the Workplace: New Research Perspectives. Carbondale: SIU Press, 1993.

Staples, Katherine, and Cezar Ornatowski. Foundations for Teaching Technical Communication. Ablex/ATTW: 1997.

Sullivan, Patricia, and Jennie Dautermann. Electronic Literacies in the Workplace: Technologies of Writing. Urbana: NCTE, 1996.

Tebeaux, Elizabeth. Issues in Tenure and Promotion for Faculty in Technical Communication: Guidelines and Perspectives. Especially Chaps 3, 7, 8, and 11. Full online text available at the ATTW website.

Zuboff, Shoshana. In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power. New York: Basic Books, 1988.



Bibliography on Teaching Professional Communication, Bernhardt, updated 1/4/01