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If a university follows the learning paradigm, critical thinking is not offered as 'a course' or a selection of courses in the core curriculum, but is incorporated into every college course. If this paradigm were to assume dominance at universities, as I believe it should, not only would the work of university faculty be significantly different, but this shift would also affect the responsibilities of university administrators and students, as well as local community members.
Sapp, David Alan. Inventio (2002). Articles>Education>Rhetoric
#22445
Efforts to create joint programs with universities in foreign countries are evidence that internationalization is imperative. One such effort is the professional writing program at Fairfield University that recently established an international partnership with the Universidad de la Habana in Cuba.
Sapp, David Alan. CPTSC Proceedings (2003). Articles>Education>International>Cuba
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The Lone Ranger as Technical Writing Program Administrator 
The popularity of technical writing and communication has caused many colleges and universities to scramble to hire qualified tenure-track faculty members. So-called lone ranger candidates are often lured to workplaces in which they are the sole technical writing faculty members by promises of autonomy and the ability to develop programs in ways, and at a pace, that would not necessarily be possible at other institutions. This article explores challenges faced by several such lone ranger faculty members and outlines survival strategies that may help lone rangers sustain and build their technical writing programs.
Sapp, David Alan. Journal of Business and Technical Communication (2006). Articles>Education>Writing>Technical Writing
#22789
Reports on the training and education of technical writers in Cuba.
Sapp, David Alan. Intercom (2004). Articles>Writing>Technical Writing>Cuba
#33563
A Laboratory in Citizenship: Service Learning in the Technical Communication Classroom
This article presents an argument for and offers illustrations of service learning in technical communication courses and curricula. Alongside traditional internships that prepare students as future employees, service learning provides students with an education in engaged citizenship. This article reviews service-learning literature, discussing specifically the advantages of projects to students, faculty, and the community. The authors also describe three projects in which instructors and students integrated service learning and technical communication in innovative ways.
Sapp, David Alan and Robbin D. Crabtree. Technical Communication Quarterly (2002). Articles>TC>Service Learning>Education
#35143
Trends in Industry Supervisors' Feedback On Business Communication Internships
The purpose of this empirical study is to explore expectations of industry insiders and identify how student interns are performing in relation to those expectations as defined by 11 performance areas. The results of a survey of 238 industry supervisors were collected over a 5-year period in the departments of English and communication at a private university in the Northeast. While the results suggest that student interns tend to meet their supervisors' expectations in many areas, performance categories such as initiative, writing skills, and oral communication skills require increased attention in the ways we prepare students for their internships and post-graduation employment and, perhaps, the ways we help onsite supervisors develop expectations for and evaluate our interns.
Sapp, David Alan and Qin Zhang. Business Communication Quarterly (2009). Articles>Internships>Education>Business Communication
