Teaching Writing: Ideas and Strategies

This episode provides an overview of Chapter 2 of Business Communication: Rhetorical Situations. It helps listeners understand how to create a persuasive argument in a business setting.

This episode discusses three key elements of any kind of business communication: who you communicate with, why you are communicating with them, and what kind of communication you use.

People often fear giving presentations, but this episode offers strategies to ditch the fear and embrace the occasion.

To communicate technical communication effectively, we need to use online modes: file-sharing, pdfs, screencasts, podcasts, and more.

What are the basic elements of a laboratory report in the sciences? This episode describes the sections of the lab report and what to put in the different sections.

This episode provides an overview of short and long reports from Chapter 7 of the Concise Guide to Technical Communication (Broadview Press).

What is the least you need to know to get started writing in an organization? This episode provides an overview of Chapter 6 of the Concise Guide to Technical Communication. We focus on audience, genres (email, memos, letters) and purpose (persuading, informing, building goodwill).

When--and which--visuals should you use when communicating technical and scientific information? This podcast gives a short overview of the answers to those questions from Chapter 5 of our Concise Guide to Technical Communication.

How do we help students come back after an academic integrity infraction? In this episode, I talk with Dr. Tyler Cawthray of the University of Southern Queensland about the strategies they employ to support students and finish their degree programs.

This episode describes techniques outlined in Chapter 4 of the Concise Guide to Technical Communication (broadview.com) to make your writing clearer, more cohesive, and more concise.