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Negotiating Cultural Encounters (eBook)

Narrating Intercultural Engineering and Technical Communication

Gerald Savage, Han Yu (Herausgeber)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
280 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-118-50484-0 (ISBN)

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Discusses the challenges of intercultural communication in engineering, technical, and related professional fields Given today's globalized technical and engineering environment, intercultural communication is an essential topic for engineers, other technical professionals, and technical communicators to learn. Engineering programs, in particular, need to think about how to address the ABET requirement for students to develop global competence and communication skills. This book will help readers learn what intercultural communication is like in the workplace which is an important first step in gaining intercultural competence. Through narratives based on the real experiences of working professionals, Negotiating Cultural Encounters: Narrating Intercultural Engineering and Technical Communication covers a range of design, development, research, and documentation projects offering an authentic picture of today's international workplace. Narrative contributors present firsthand experience and perspectives on the complexities and challenges of working with multicultural team members, international vendors, and diverse customers; additional suggested readings and discussion questions provide students with information on relevant cultural factors and invite them to think deeply and critically about the narratives. This collection of narratives: Responds to the need for updated firsthand information in intercultural communication and will help us prepare workplace professionals Covers various topics such as designing e-commerce websites, localizing technical documentation, and translating workplace safety materials Provides hands-on studies of intercultural professional communication in the workplace Is targeted toward institutions that train engineers for technical communication tasks in diverse sociocultural environments Presents contributions from a diverse group of professionals Recommends additional material for further pursuit A book unlike any other in its field, Negotiating Cultural Encounters is ideal for all engineering and technical communication professionals seeking to better communicate their ideas and thoughts in the multicultural workplaces of the world.

HAN YU is an Associate Professor of Technical Writing and Professional Communication in the English Department at Kansas State University. Dr. Yu has published numerous journal articles within this area. GERALD SAVAGE is Professor Emeritus and former Internship Director and Technical Writing Program Director in the English Department at Illinois State University. Dr. Savage has published numerous books and articles on technical communication.

Preface xi

A Note from the Series Editor xiii

INTRODUCTION 1

Han Yu and Gerald Savage

CHAPTER 1 Changing Times, Changing Style Guides 17

Jennifer O'Neill

CHAPTER 2 Concinnity of Assorted Nuts 41

Marina Lin

CHAPTER 3 Learning Curve 61

Vaishnavi Thogttluva Vijayaram

CHAPTER 4 Lost in Translation 81

Elena Groznaya

CHAPTER 5 Collective Learning in East Africa: Building and
Transferring Technical Knowledge in Livestock Production 103

K. Alex Ilyasova and Cheryl Birkelo

CHAPTER 6 That's Worth Waiting For: GLDD's Spanish JSA Booklet
123

Christina Schulz

CHAPTER 7 Making Excellence a Habit across Intercultural
Barriers 143

Saurabh Kudesia

CHAPTER 8 Crash of Cultures 167

Sam Racine

CHAPTER 9 Collaboration on a Pan-European Project Spanning 35
National Research and Education Networks across the European Union
185

Warren Singer

CHAPTER 10 Are Chinese Documents Ready for Global Audiences?
209

Melanie G. Flanders

CHAPTER 11 Subject Matter Expert Meets Technical Communicator:
Stories of Mestiza Consciousness in the Automotive Industry
227

Angela M. Haas

CHAPTER 12 My Life as an EFL Trainer/Technical Translator in
Shanghai, China 247

Huiling Ding

Index 263

"The book may be interesting for those already working in
the field of technical communication, but would be perhaps more
useful to students or to those preparing to become professionals
dealing with textual (including graphical) material of various
kinds." (Computing Reviews, 8 September
2014)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.3.2013
Reihe/Serie	IEEE PCS Professional Engineering Communication Series
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
Themenwelt	Technik ► Nachrichtentechnik
Schlagworte	Business & Management • Communication & Media Studies • Electrical & Electronics Engineering • Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik • Interkulturelle Zusammenarbeit • Kommunikation u. Medienforschung • Perspektiven in Ingenieurberufen • Professional Development for Engineers • Technische Kommunikation • Training & Human Resource Development / Diversity • Training u. Personalentwicklung / Meinungsvielfalt • Wirtschaft u. Management
ISBN-10	1-118-50484-4 / 1118504844
ISBN-13	978-1-118-50484-0 / 9781118504840

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