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Discovering the Pedagogical Paradigm Shift in Technical Writing 
For my dissertation, I am analyzing technical writing textbooks from the early 1900s to the present to determine whether technical writing pedagogy has undergone or is undergoing a paradigm shift. When I began this study, my hypothesis was that technical writing pedagogy, like composition and rhetoric pedagogy, has shifted from the product orientation to the process orientation. Textbooks that are product oriented emphasize the study of examples or models, and textbooks that are process oriented emphasize the study of the writing process. Now that I have completed my study and am in the process of analyzing the results, my hypothesis is that technical writing pedagogy shifted from a product orientation to a combined product and process orientation.
Jeansonne, Jerold. STC Proceedings (1995). Articles>Education>Writing>Technical Writing
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Graduate Program Perspectives and Perceptions
The panelists agree that the primary reason to pursue an advanced degree is professional improvement. There are many graduate programs in technical and/or professional communication with focuses ranging from practical application to theoretical development. Because of individual and program differences, graduate students have different perceptions even within their respective programs. This panel focuses on the perceptions of graduate programs from three panel members perspectives.
Jeansonne, Jerold, Lynn A. Perry and George J. Vivrett. STC Proceedings (1994). Articles>Education>Graduate
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Persuasion in Technical Communication: Applying the Information-Integration Theory
Technical communicators are skilled rhetoricians whose persuasive documents include letters, reports, and proposals, and with these documents, technical communicators persuade their audience to accept their ideas. Persuasion is the method of supplying new information about a subject to change people’s attitude about that subject. According to the Information-Integration Theory people form their initial attitude about a subject when they first learn about it. As people receive new information about that subject, they adjust their attitude in relation to the new information.
Jeansonne, Jerold. STC Proceedings (1993). Articles>TC>Rhetoric
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In the age of the national information infrastructure, we are inundated with information from various sources. Each day, we come into contact with much more information than we can ever assimilate, and the amount of information that we have access to constantly increases. We generate more and more information daily, and with modern technology, such as Internet, we have immediate access to libraries and databases worldwide.
Jeansonne, Jerold. STC Proceedings (1994). Articles>Writing>Assessment>Technical Writing
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Software Documentation Process-Datastream Systems, Inc.
This panel presents the software documentation processes at 3 companies. At Datastream, a software development company with approximately 200 employees, we, the technical writers, have integrated ourselves into all stages of the software development process. Additionally, we have incorporated the tenets of document cycling into our documentation process. In this paper and in our presentation, we outline our documentation process. We do not prescribe our approach but instead hope that it sparks a dialog among software documentation writers in similar companies so that we may learn from each other.
Jeansonne, Jerold and Amy J. Listeman. STC Proceedings (1996). Articles>Documentation>Workflow
