Although there have been many attempts to mediate the longstanding gap between technical communication academics and practitioners, the field has yet to become a unified community. This study tracks the history of the field to identify the causes of the breach. The goal of this thesis is to assess technical communication's current industry and academic environment based on data collected from interviewing selected academics and practitioners. For my research, I compared my interview findings to the information from my bibliographical research in order to contribute to creating a healthy research-to-practice loop by producing a course syllabus for a senior seminar for the Professional Writing option within Virginia Tech's department of English. This syllabus contains readings, assignments, projects, and industry tests that are meant to help students contribute to bridging the gap between academia and industry by combining the important components from both sides of technical communication. Research indicates that important professional skills for the workplace include knowing how to transform writing into products through topic-based writing, structured authoring, and information typing. Examples of other important professional technical communication skills include search engine optimization and content repurposing. Advanced technical communication-related jobs in industry include content strategist and information architect. Methods of diminishing the gap between academics and practitioners and providing an environment that is conducive to collaborative research include generating awareness among technical communicators about what the other group does, changing the paradigm for research and faculty requirements for technical communication academics, and the two groups collaborating to develop more technical communication-related internships for students. / Master of Arts

Almejando uma problematização geral do encontro entre as práticas educacionais e as literárias, a presente dissertação oferece uma especulação estórica sobre determinadas formas vigentes de governo das forças escriturais. Para tanto, investiga a figura pública do literato, tomando-a como catalisadora dos ditames relativos a um suposto bem escrever, os quais caberia à pedagogia transmitir, prescrever e disseminar para uma população de leitores eficazes, bem como de escreventes virtuais. Municiando-se do aporte analítico de Michel Foucault, o trabalho apropria-se especialmente das noções de função-autor e de sociedade de discurso, a fim de interpelar as investidas governamentalizadoras incidentes no ato de escrever, as quais tanto permitiriam-no e proliferariam-no dentro de alguns limites veridictivos, quanto distribuiriam-no apenas entre alguns eleitos e, assim, rarefariam-no. Dedicando-se, sobretudo, ao gesto procedimental foucaultiano, a pesquisa procura endereçar-se a seu locus empírico à moda arqueogenealógica, forjando um approach analítico que pudesse almanaquear as fontes de pesquisa, cobiçando minorá-las, esgueirando-se do que nelas houver de imperativo e potencializando suas adjacências, de modo a dar conta de seu nomadismo, sem a pretensão de totalizá-las. Constituem a superfície empírica da dissertação os discursos de posse da Academia Brasileira de Letras, contabilizados em 408 textos, no arco de 117 anos. Diante da massa discursiva aí presente, quis-se confeccionar, fragmentariamente e sem pretensão cronológica, uma história outra da literatura brasileira, menos fadada à lógica interna da instituição literária, e mais ocupada com as relações de poder que atravessam suas práticas, provocando efeitos tão exteriores quanto, à primeira sensação, desvinculados delas. Tratou-se, ali, não de isolar os preceitos do bem escrever relacionados às condições propriamente da lavra escritural, tais como o emprego de determinadas técnicas, nem a quantidade de escritos, sequer sua qualidade, mas de perspectivar o direito às belas-letras, o qual foi concedido, ao que parece, a quem pudesse exibir uma biografia tida por extravagante ou muito correta, quer escrevesse à moda de Machado de Assis, de Paulo Coelho ou, ainda, de Adelino Fontoura, quem sequer escreveu senão em cadernos particulares, encontrados e publicados apenas décadas após seu falecimento e eleição para a Academia. Desta feita, nos discursos de posse, nota-se que três vetores concorrem em grande medida para a governança da escrita, todos eles concernentes à esfera privada dos literatos: a) suas relações interpessoais, com destaque para sua atuação em família; b) os locais onde nasceram, residem e que frequentam; e c) a maneira de trajarem-se e de portarem-se em público. Conclui-se, assim, que os modos de governo da escrita, tal como se pôde compreendê-los, redundam em uma severa restrição do gesto escrevente, porque nem mesmo se trata de estipular genialidade ou engenhosidade, mas de forjar adequação e incorporação ao meio literário ou, então, o consentimento à condição de irrequieto consumidor da produção cultural. / Aiming at a general problematization of the encounter between the educational and the literary practices, this dissertation offers a story in a speculative manner about certain existing forms of governing the writing forces. To do so, this study investigates the public figure of the man of letters, taking it as the catalyzer of the precepts related to a supposed good writing, which presumably the pedagogy would transmit it, prescribe it and disseminate it for a population of effective readers and virtual writers. Based on the analytical contribution of Michel Foucault, this work specially makes use of the author-function and society of discourse notions in order to question the governmentalized assaults invested in the act of writing, which would allow and spread the act of writing within veridictive limits, as well as would distribute it across a few chosen persons, reducing its chance of creation. Committed to the Foucauldian procedural gesture, the research seeks to address to its empirical locus in an arche-genealogic mode, forging an analytical approach that could produce a kind of almanac effect on the sources, aiming at minimizing them, avoiding their imperative effects and enhancing their surroundings, in order to comprehend their nomadism, without totalizing them. The empirical surface of this dissertation are the inauguration speeches of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Academy of Letters, or ABL), summing 408 texts in a 117 year span. Given this discursive material, it was intended to fabricate, in a fragmented way and with no chronological pretension, a kind of other history of the Brazilian literature, diminishing its relation to the internal logic of the literary institution while paying attention to its power relations which prevails in its practices, generating effects such exterior as, by first sight, unrelated to them. The intent was not a matter of isolating the precepts of a good writing related to the conditions of a proper scriptural process, such as the use of certain techniques, nor the quantity or quality of the writings, but to foresee the right to belles-lettres, which was granted, it seems, to whom could display a biography taken by fancy or very correct, even if he would write according to the style of Machado de Assis, Paulo Coelho, or even of Adelino Fontoura who just wrote only in private notebooks, found and published only decades after his death and nomination to the ABL. It is possible to assume, from these inauguration speeches, that are three factors that contribute greatly to the governance of the writing, all of them pertaining to the private sphere of the men of letters: a) their interpersonal relationships, especially his family role; b) the places where they were born, living and attending; and c) their public behavior and clothing. Thus, to conclude, the ways of governing the writing, such as this study could understand them, results in a severe restriction of the scriptural gesture, for it has nothing to do with the supposed genius or cleverness, but with forging adequacy and incorporation to the literary milieu or, otherwise, forging a consent to the condition of a restless consumer of cultural productions.

Almejando uma problematização geral do encontro entre as práticas educacionais e as literárias, a presente dissertação oferece uma especulação estórica sobre determinadas formas vigentes de governo das forças escriturais. Para tanto, investiga a figura pública do literato, tomando-a como catalisadora dos ditames relativos a um suposto bem escrever, os quais caberia à pedagogia transmitir, prescrever e disseminar para uma população de leitores eficazes, bem como de escreventes virtuais. Municiando-se do aporte analítico de Michel Foucault, o trabalho apropria-se especialmente das noções de função-autor e de sociedade de discurso, a fim de interpelar as investidas governamentalizadoras incidentes no ato de escrever, as quais tanto permitiriam-no e proliferariam-no dentro de alguns limites veridictivos, quanto distribuiriam-no apenas entre alguns eleitos e, assim, rarefariam-no. Dedicando-se, sobretudo, ao gesto procedimental foucaultiano, a pesquisa procura endereçar-se a seu locus empírico à moda arqueogenealógica, forjando um approach analítico que pudesse almanaquear as fontes de pesquisa, cobiçando minorá-las, esgueirando-se do que nelas houver de imperativo e potencializando suas adjacências, de modo a dar conta de seu nomadismo, sem a pretensão de totalizá-las. Constituem a superfície empírica da dissertação os discursos de posse da Academia Brasileira de Letras, contabilizados em 408 textos, no arco de 117 anos. Diante da massa discursiva aí presente, quis-se confeccionar, fragmentariamente e sem pretensão cronológica, uma história outra da literatura brasileira, menos fadada à lógica interna da instituição literária, e mais ocupada com as relações de poder que atravessam suas práticas, provocando efeitos tão exteriores quanto, à primeira sensação, desvinculados delas. Tratou-se, ali, não de isolar os preceitos do bem escrever relacionados às condições propriamente da lavra escritural, tais como o emprego de determinadas técnicas, nem a quantidade de escritos, sequer sua qualidade, mas de perspectivar o direito às belas-letras, o qual foi concedido, ao que parece, a quem pudesse exibir uma biografia tida por extravagante ou muito correta, quer escrevesse à moda de Machado de Assis, de Paulo Coelho ou, ainda, de Adelino Fontoura, quem sequer escreveu senão em cadernos particulares, encontrados e publicados apenas décadas após seu falecimento e eleição para a Academia. Desta feita, nos discursos de posse, nota-se que três vetores concorrem em grande medida para a governança da escrita, todos eles concernentes à esfera privada dos literatos: a) suas relações interpessoais, com destaque para sua atuação em família; b) os locais onde nasceram, residem e que frequentam; e c) a maneira de trajarem-se e de portarem-se em público. Conclui-se, assim, que os modos de governo da escrita, tal como se pôde compreendê-los, redundam em uma severa restrição do gesto escrevente, porque nem mesmo se trata de estipular genialidade ou engenhosidade, mas de forjar adequação e incorporação ao meio literário ou, então, o consentimento à condição de irrequieto consumidor da produção cultural. / Aiming at a general problematization of the encounter between the educational and the literary practices, this dissertation offers a story in a speculative manner about certain existing forms of governing the writing forces. To do so, this study investigates the public figure of the man of letters, taking it as the catalyzer of the precepts related to a supposed good writing, which presumably the pedagogy would transmit it, prescribe it and disseminate it for a population of effective readers and virtual writers. Based on the analytical contribution of Michel Foucault, this work specially makes use of the author-function and society of discourse notions in order to question the governmentalized assaults invested in the act of writing, which would allow and spread the act of writing within veridictive limits, as well as would distribute it across a few chosen persons, reducing its chance of creation. Committed to the Foucauldian procedural gesture, the research seeks to address to its empirical locus in an arche-genealogic mode, forging an analytical approach that could produce a kind of almanac effect on the sources, aiming at minimizing them, avoiding their imperative effects and enhancing their surroundings, in order to comprehend their nomadism, without totalizing them. The empirical surface of this dissertation are the inauguration speeches of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Academy of Letters, or ABL), summing 408 texts in a 117 year span. Given this discursive material, it was intended to fabricate, in a fragmented way and with no chronological pretension, a kind of other history of the Brazilian literature, diminishing its relation to the internal logic of the literary institution while paying attention to its power relations which prevails in its practices, generating effects such exterior as, by first sight, unrelated to them. The intent was not a matter of isolating the precepts of a good writing related to the conditions of a proper scriptural process, such as the use of certain techniques, nor the quantity or quality of the writings, but to foresee the right to belles-lettres, which was granted, it seems, to whom could display a biography taken by fancy or very correct, even if he would write according to the style of Machado de Assis, Paulo Coelho, or even of Adelino Fontoura who just wrote only in private notebooks, found and published only decades after his death and nomination to the ABL. It is possible to assume, from these inauguration speeches, that are three factors that contribute greatly to the governance of the writing, all of them pertaining to the private sphere of the men of letters: a) their interpersonal relationships, especially his family role; b) the places where they were born, living and attending; and c) their public behavior and clothing. Thus, to conclude, the ways of governing the writing, such as this study could understand them, results in a severe restriction of the scriptural gesture, for it has nothing to do with the supposed genius or cleverness, but with forging adequacy and incorporation to the literary milieu or, otherwise, forging a consent to the condition of a restless consumer of cultural productions.

Orientador: Rogério Monteiro de Siqueira / Dissertação (mestrado profissional) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T21:32:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mormello_BenHur_M.pdf: 2580589 bytes, checksum: 4a4f1a15e7bc10e9d3316590743c075c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Neste trabalho, a proposta é analisar como foi concebido o currículo de matemática da Academia Real Militar do Rio de Janeiro e suas modificações posteriores, estabelecidas pelas reformas dos seus estatutos, desde 1811, quando tem início o primeiro ano de funcionamento da Academia, a 1874, quando o ensino de engenharia passa a ser responsabilidade de um ministério civil, com a transformação da Escola Central em Escola Politécnica. Partindo de uma breve análise das suas principais influências, em especial, a Faculdade de Matemática da Universidade de Coimbra, discutiremos em detalhe os estatutos da Academia Real Militar, particularmente o seu currículo de Matemática, procurando entender até que ponto as suas disposições eram realmente inovadoras (em relação às academias militares estabelecidas pelo governo de Portugal), e como se aclimataram as duas correntes curriculares mais importantes em sua história: a dos "profissionalistas", para os quais o foco da formação deveria ser militar, e a dos "culturalistas", que defendiam uma sólida base de conhecimentos científicos / Abstract: In this work, the proposal is to analyze as the mathematical syllabus of the Royal Military Academy of Rio de Janeiro was conceived and his posterior adaptations, implemented between 1811, when the Academy was founded, and 1874, when the teaching of engineer become a responsibility of a civil ministry, and the Escola Central turned into Escola Politécnica. Presenting the main models which inspired the project, specially the College of Mathematics of the University of Coimbra, we discuss in detail the statutes of the Royal Military Academy, particularly its mathematical syllabus, in order to detect their new contributions and see how was acclimatised the its most important traditions: the "profissionalistas", for which the goal of the Academy should be strictly military, and the "culturalistas", which had defended a solid base of scientific knowledge / Mestrado / Matematica / Mestre em Matemática

Choices made in highly uncertain settings problematise the concept of rationality in decisions-making. Notably, educational choices are conducted on uncertain ground as future prospects in labour markets are always risky. Educational choices should also correspond to values of self-actualisation – derived from ideologies of High modernity (individualisation) –which in turn makes the decision even harder. Many studies have researched risk-taking and economic risk assessments in educational choices. Studies have also shown the effects of individualisation and capitalisation in modern societies. However, few studies on education take both economic and self-developing values into consideration, and even fewer examine the rationality in self-actualisation. This dissertation analyses rationality derived from social circumstances – in this case academia – in order to explain how students make their educational decisions and how they are affected by academic settings during their studies. To investigate this, a survey was constructed and sent to students. Statistical (correlation; group comparisons) and qualitative content analysis was used to interpret the data. The findings suggest that rationality in educational decisions mainly derives from self-interest, but also that academic settings promote this approach. This implicates that uncertainty is dealt with in social environments, and that rationality is essentially a social construction built and harboured within institutional settings.

Studies have shown that mentoring is a viable form of professional development.Faced with large numbers of retirements and a projected increase in student enrollment, the issues of recruitment, retention and revitalization of current faculty are at the core of this study. There is little empirical research on the phenomenon of structured or formal mentoring in higher education from the perspective of both the mentee and the mentor.The purpose of this study was to identify, describe, and analyze the perceived benefits that both senior or more experienced faculty mentors and junior or new-to-the institution faculty mentees at a large urban research university received from participating in a structured faculty mentoring program.A nonexperimental, descriptive study was designed to explore these issues. The method used to collect data was a survey questionnaire. Utilizing both descriptive and correlational statistics, the most notable findings revolved around the significance of sharing aspects of institutional culture by older, more experienced faculty members. Independent samples t-tests performed on ten subscales by participant type were significant at the p≤0.05 level. Specifically, mentors gave higher ratings for Scale 3, Institutional Culture and Scale 10, Value of One-to-one Activities. Mentees gave higher ratings for Scale 5, Psychosocial Compatibility elements.The findings also indicated that women gave higher value to the personal, psychosocial aspects of being involved in the structured mentoring program than men. Women gave higher ratings for Scale 5, Psychosocial Compatibility and Scale 8, Psychosocial Compatibility and Activity Elements.Correlations for faculty members years of experience at this institution as well astheir total years of being faculty members in higher education found faculty members at the current institution with greater years experience was positively correlated with Scale 3, Institutional Culture (r = .33). Total faculty years in higher education was also positively correlated with Scale 3, Institutional Culture (r = .40) and Scale 10, Value of One-to-one Activities (r = .27). The findings also suggest areas of emphasis administrators might use in designing and implementing faculty development activities that involve formal mentoring by more experienced faculty in order to obtain the greatest benefit for all participants.

For over 140 years, women faculty in the United States has struggled to reach the pinnacle of the academic tenure ladder -- the rank of tenured full professor. In 2011, women represented only 29% of tenured professors (U.S. Department of Education, 2012). This mixed-methods study sought to identify individual or groups of discrete factors, and holistically examine any inter-relatedness, which may influence the successful promotion of women faculty to professor. Through interviews with senior administrative leaders at eight private, U.S. non-profit Research I (very high research) Universities, 27, often inter-connected, themes emerged. Specific institutional policies, programs, mechanisms, and best practices were identified as potential pathways for organizational change for those institutions seeking to address this long-standing issue in academia.

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Science and technology (S&T) disciplines at universities are still largely dominated by men, and few women are found in the highest employment ranks. Using the faculty data from Utah State University, this thesis explores the factors that help explain the difference in career trajectory between men and women in the S&T colleges. While there were few women in S&T colleges prior to the 1990s, more women have been hired since then, and the lower ranks of the faculty corps are starting to reflect the gender composition of the doctoral degree holders in the different fields. This is not the case for full professors and leadership positions, where women are still underrepresented. Analysis of the university careers of faculty in S&T colleges revealed that in the absence of formal guidelines, promotions to full professor were inconsistent, but men were generally promoted faster, especially when hired as associate professors. However, conscious measures by the university to make the promotion process more transparent and formalized reduced the variability in time to promotion to full professor for all faculty and minimized differences between men and women. Recognition of faculty achievement through awards still shows gender bias. Women proportionally receive less awards, especially in recognition of research activities. This study illustrates that clear guidelines reduce gender bias in decisions and improve gender equity in the academia.