Describes an undergraduate writing course on communicating public policy. Discusses how academic instruction in professional and technical communication can show students, by simulating practical experience and by developing a discourse analytic perspective, what elected officials, governmental staff, and non-profit non-governmental organizations…

Considers how different teachers integrate research on international technical communication into their classrooms. Describes the following courses taught from an international perspective: a graduate seminar, a high-tech course in engineering communication, and an introductory course on creating "world-ready" information products.…

Designs a technical-communication course for software-engineering majors to take concurrently with their capstone project course in software design. Studies effects of writing on students' user-centered beliefs and design practices and on usability of their product. Suggests the synergy of this interdisciplinary approach sensitized students to…