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- Collaboration software is transforming
the way international businesses communicate
in the global workforce. Technical communicators
use synchronous and asynchronous communication
technology to assign team roles and responsibilities,
organize document production, plan documentation
strategies, and develop tactical solutions
to problems of production. To work effectively
in these virtual environments, they require
current theoretical knowledge in how to successfully
negotiate difference in virtual spaces, how
power manifests itself in these spaces, and
how the tools they use to construct these
spaces shape them in interested rather than
neutral ways. Teaching technical communication
online models the collaborative virtual workspaces
that writing professionals currently inhabit.
Online collaboration projects provide students
with a familiar environment in which to hone
their skills and self-reflexively examine
their online participation by consulting
archives of collaborative work sessions.
- An online graduate certificate in international
technical communication would meet the needs
of working professionals by providing
them with a distance education opportunity
to learn advanced theoretical and practical
approaches to
- composing documents and other
information products for local and
global translation;
- writing collaboratively
online in increasingly more diverse virtual
workspaces;
- developing best practices
for new online writing workspaces that
are informed
by current technical communication research.
- This graduate certificate program
reaches out to workplaces across the state
of Ohio whose growing reliance on technology
to enhance their productivity requires the
expertise of technical communicators.
- By
affording continuing education opportunities
to these working professionals, our certificate
program will directly enhance the productivity
of the industries in which they work.
who should consider this degree?
- Technical workers who have an interest
in acquiring a university graduate certificate
to mark their advancement, and an international
audience interested in exploring the unique
offerings of a graduate technical writing
curriculum that emphasizes international
issues including how to
deal with an increasingly global workplace.
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