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Hirst, Russel – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2016
This article describes how a special kind of academe-industry collaboration--based on a joint appointment agreement between a university and an industry site--was set up, promoted, and experienced by a professor of technical communication and his student interns. To illustrate the nature and value of this kind of collaboration, the article…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Universities, Nuclear Energy, College Faculty
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Payne, Kay; Downing, Joe; Fleming, John Christopher – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2000
Reports results of a study in which 72 African-American college students listened to and evaluated a tape-recorded excerpt of a speech in two versions, one in Ebonics and one in Standard English. Finds students rated the speaker who used Standard English as more credible (i.e. , more competent and having a strong character) and more sociable than…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, College Students, Communication Research