(Re)Kindle

Abstract

In an effort to expand the range of ways graduate programs prepare students to be scholars and practitioners in technical and professional communication, this article argues for a fresh direct reengagement with stories, storytelling, and narrative as valuable ways of studying and effectively producing the varied texts of the workplace. The previous call for acknowledging the value of narrative traces back almost 30 years, and story is still being used in a variety of compelling ways, even as an overt regard for narrative has not been sustained. What may be lacking is a systematic way to transform assumptions about stories as informal anecdotes into stories as data for rigorous analysis. David Boje’s antenarrative theory and method offers technical and professional communication graduate students, scholars, and practitioners just such a compelling and timely position from which to consider workplace processes and products.

Nonverbal Component Of Engineer’s Communicative Competence

“…In line with the expansion of engineering communicative competence, it seems logical that standards in engineering education have been upgraded to include "the ability to communicate logically and persuasively in spoken, written, numerical, and visual forms" (National Academy of Engineering, 2006, p. 104). The greater emphasis placed on speaking skills by employers and the government is believed to be a very significant aspect of addressing the advanced challenges of professional engineering interaction (Small, 2017).…”