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Book SynopsisDiscusses 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 contrib
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“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)
Table of ContentsPreface 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
