Documentation as Problem Solving for Literacy Outreach Programs
Age-appropriate technical writing lessons for underperforming high-school students can offer them an innovative, ''authentic'' way to improve how they read and write. Thus the techniques and principles of effective technical communication routinely applied at work also provide a positive response to one of today's great educational challenges. This workshop shows participants how to (1) introduce English and science teachers to the value of technical writing as a response to school literacy problems, (2) prepare plausible practice exercises to help students improve their basic literacy, and (3) recognize and respond to known literacy outreach pitfalls. Every effective literacy outreach project based on technical writing needs to address four key problems.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 15014072
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-CONF-205156; TRN: US200803%%702
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Presented at: Society for Technical Communication Region 8 Conference 2004, Davis, CA, United States, Jul 25 - Jul 27, 2004
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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