Originally, technical communication was considered to be only a counterpart to this intellectual discipline.
What is engineering?
100
One of Young's Five Faces of Oppression
What are violence, exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, and cultural imperialism.
100
A Mexican ballad traditionally about oppression and history.
What are corridos?
100
The author who taught us it's important to humanize data in technical visuals and visualizations
Who is Sam Dragga?
200
Three views of communication according to Slack, Miller, Doak, 1993
What is transmission, translation, articulation
200
a prereflexivie and tacit awareness and communicative process that is part of the larger domain called "storytelling:
What is antenarrative
200
Because Latinos are counted as both "white" and "Hispanic" on the US census, they have what Pimentel and Blazhiser call this term.
What is double-occupancy
200
A field related to technical communication that focuses on how users interact with websites, tools, and digital platforms.
What is user-experience?
300
Through this view of communication, the technical communicator is mainly focused on eliminating jargon and complex vocabulary for lay audiences
What is translation
300
According to Agboka, these are "liberatory research methods that are beneficial to both researcher and participant, positioning both researcher and participant as humans with rights"
What are decolonial methods/methodologies
300
A social construction that is neither stable nor objective
What is race?
300
Selfe and Selfe argue that computers and technologies are this.
What are contact zones/electronic contact zones
400
According to Sun (2006), this is the process that users enact when they adapt technologies for their own local purposes.
What is user-localization?
400
the negotiation of cultural information—and its historical, social, economic, and political influences—to affect social action (persuade)
What is rhetoric?
400
The difference between borders and boundaries
What is “the difference between the boundary and the border is simple yet significant: boundaries are political constructs intended to enforce power differentials; borders are cultural phenomena found at the nexus of culture and identity"
400
Natalia Matveeva provides 4 strategies for teaching technical communication at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. This is the third strategy.
What is "establish close ties with local nonprofits and businesses"
500
What we should employ as the first principle of technical communication according to Rebecca Walton.
What are human dignity and human rights?
500
a common practice used in user-experience research to represent a group's demographics, acculturation and language preferences, cultural values, and internet and search skills
What are personas
500
a theory that “turn[s] the lens away from theorizing about the disadvantages people of color often experience to uncover the often-invisible mechanisms is our social system that work to benefit white people”
What is whiteness theory?
500
Three connections that we made during our class discussion between technical communication and teaching.
What are attention to audience, antenarratives (like counter-storytelling), no credit for our work.