TY - JOUR
T1 - Meeting students where they are
T2 - Advancing a theory and practice of archives in the classroom
AU - Saidy-Hannah, Christina
AU - Hannah, Mark
AU - Sura, Tom
PY - 2011/1/1
Y1 - 2011/1/1
N2 - This article uses theories of technical communication and archives to advance a pedagogy that includes archival production in the technical communication classroom. By developing and maintaining local classroom archives, students directly engage in valuable processes of appraisal, selection, collaboration, and retention. The anticipated outcomes of this work are the critical practice of making connections, the decentering of the self, the ability to work through noise, and the ability to imagine future users of the archive. The authors conclude that local classroom archives are one new means of meaningful instruction in the technical communication classroom and the local archive concept has great potential for further development.
AB - This article uses theories of technical communication and archives to advance a pedagogy that includes archival production in the technical communication classroom. By developing and maintaining local classroom archives, students directly engage in valuable processes of appraisal, selection, collaboration, and retention. The anticipated outcomes of this work are the critical practice of making connections, the decentering of the self, the ability to work through noise, and the ability to imagine future users of the archive. The authors conclude that local classroom archives are one new means of meaningful instruction in the technical communication classroom and the local archive concept has great potential for further development.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79953753630&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=79953753630&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2190/TW.41.2.e
DO - 10.2190/TW.41.2.e
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79953753630
SN - 0047-2816
VL - 41
SP - 173
EP - 191
JO - Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
JF - Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
IS - 2
ER -