http://courses.johnmjones.org/ENGL605/2012/09/30/postmodern-technical-communication/ ENGL 605, WVU, Fall 2012 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 02:44:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://courses.johnmjones.org/ENGL605/2012/09/30/postmodern-technical-communication/#comment-331 Rachel Henderson Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:19:43 +0000 http://courses.johnmjones.org/ENGL605/?p=641#comment-331 I couldn't agree more with your observation, Ashleigh, that: "While Bosley asks to alter our pedagogical strategies in order to make them more inclusive, the fact remains that Euro-North American communication practices (really, white male practices) continue to dominate business settings. By acknowledging the privileged place of Euro-North American culture in our classrooms and in society at large, I am not proposing that we accept and participate in that culture without question. Indeed, the first step in creating change is to take a good, hard look at ourselves and the situation we’re in." I thought Wilson actually did a good job of this—taking a look at his own experiences and the situations we're in as teachers, writers, students, and employees. I'm always drawn for some reason to arguments for less structure and so appreciated the transformation from modern to postmodern pedagogy that Wilson explores, but I also appreciate your position that some structure will always be intrinsic to technical communication. Perhaps the postmodern element comes into play more in the student-writers themselves, and their ability to be introspective and critically thoughtful, and less in the curriculum or document production skills. I couldn’t agree more with your observation, Ashleigh, that: “While Bosley asks to alter our pedagogical strategies in order to make them more inclusive, the fact remains that Euro-North American communication practices (really, white male practices) continue to dominate business settings. By acknowledging the privileged place of Euro-North American culture in our classrooms and in society at large, I am not proposing that we accept and participate in that culture without question. Indeed, the first step in creating change is to take a good, hard look at ourselves and the situation we’re in.” I thought Wilson actually did a good job of this—taking a look at his own experiences and the situations we’re in as teachers, writers, students, and employees. I’m always drawn for some reason to arguments for less structure and so appreciated the transformation from modern to postmodern pedagogy that Wilson explores, but I also appreciate your position that some structure will always be intrinsic to technical communication. Perhaps the postmodern element comes into play more in the student-writers themselves, and their ability to be introspective and critically thoughtful, and less in the curriculum or document production skills.

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