Sharing Our Intellectual Traces: Narrative Reflections from Administrators of Professional, Technical,...

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Tracy Bridgeford Karla Saari Kitalong

Sharing Our Intellectual Traces

Narrative Reflections from Administrators of Professional, Technical, and Scientific Programs...

Tracy Bridgeford, Karla Saari Kitalong, Bill Williamson

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Baywood Publishing Company Inc
30 April 2014

Information theory; Public administration; Business communication & presentation; Information retrieval

Series: Baywood's Technical Communications

Administrators of academic professional and technical communication (PTSC) programs have long relied upon lore--stories of what works--to understand and communicate about the work of program administration. Stories are interesting, telling, engaging, and necessary. But a discipline focused primarily on stories, especially the ephemeral stories narrated at conferences and deliberated at department meetings, usually suffice primarily to solve immediate problems and address day-to-day concerns and activities. This edited collection captures some of those stories and layers them with theoretical perspectives and reflection, to enhance their usefulness to the PTSC program administration community at large.

Like the ephemeral stories PTSC program administrators are accustomed to, the stories told in this volume are set within specific institutional contexts that reflect specific institutional challenges. They emphasize the intellectual traces--the debts the authors owe to those who have informed and transformed their administrative work. In so doing, this collection creates another conversation--albeit a robust, diverse, and theoretically informed one--around which program leaders might define or redefine their roles and re-envision their administrative work as the rich, complex, intellectual engagement that we find it to be.

This volume asks authors to move beyond a notion of administration as an activity based solely in institutional details and processes. In so doing, they emphasize theory as they share their reflections on core administrative processes and significant moments in the histories of their associated programs, thereby affording opportunities for critical examination in conjunction with practical advice.

By: Tracy Bridgeford, Karla Saari Kitalong, Bill Williamson
Imprint: Baywood Publishing Company Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 498g
ISBN: 9780895038692
ISBN 10: 0895038692
Series: Baywood's Technical Communications
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 30 April 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tracy Bridgeford, Karla Saari Kitalong, Bill Williamson