Design discourse : [electronic resource] composing and revising programs in professional and technical writing / [edited by] David Franke, Alex Reid, Anthony DiRenzo.

Includes bibliographical references.

Composing. The great instauration: restoring professional and technical writing to the humanities / Anthony DiRenzo -- Starts, false starts, and getting started: (mis)understanding the naming of a professional writing minor / Michael Knieval ... [et al.] -- Composing a proposal for a professional/technical writing program / W. Gary Griswold -- Disciplinary identities: professional writing, rhetorical studies, and rethinking "English" / Brent Henze, Wendy Sharer, and Janice Tovey -- Revising. Smart growth of professional writing programs: controlling sprawl in departmental landscapes / Diana Ashe and Colleen A. Reilly -- Curriculum, genre and resistance: revising identity in a professional writing community / David Franke -- Composing and revising the professional writing program at Ohio Northern University: a case study / Jonathan Pitts -- Minors, certificates, engineering. Certificate programs in technical writing: through sophistic eyes / Jim Nugent -- Shippensburg University's technical/professional communications minor: a multidisciplinary approach / Carla Kungl and S. Dev Hathaway -- Reinventing audience through distance / Jude Edminster and Andrew Mara -- Introducing a technical writing communication course into a Canadian School of Engineering / Anne Parker -- English and engineering, pedagogy and politics / Brian D. Ballentine -- Futures. The third way: PTW and the liberal arts in the new knowledge society / Anthony DiRenzo -- The write brain: professional writing in the post-knowledge economy / Alex Reid -- Post-scripts by veteran program designers. A techn' for citizens: service-learning conversation, and community / James Dubinsky -- Models of professional writing/ technical writing administration: reflections of a serial administrator at Syracuse University / Carol Lipson.

Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing addresses the complexities of developing professional and technical writing programs. The essays in the collection offer reflections on efforts to bridge two cultures -- what the editors characterize as the "art and science of writing"--Often by addressing explicitly the tensions between them. Design Discourse offers insights into the high-stakes decisions made by program designers as they seek to "function at the intersection of the practical and the abstract, the human and the technical."--Open Textbook Library.