How can language diversity be centered through multimodal design and community-centered technical communication work? And what can that look like in the semester-long space of the undergraduate course? These questions drive the development of a technical communication course design that works to position students as design advocates (a term inspired by Wysocki and Lynch’s Compose, Design, Advocate), who work to understand, analyze, and make positive interventions within writing situations in their own communities, and to increase representation and access in their genres. In doing so, design advocates are asked to engage their communicative resources in context-specific design practice. In this…
Author: Dana Comi
Dana Comi
Dana Comi is a third-year Ph.D student at the University of Kansas with research interests in Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS), technical communication, and public rhetorics.