Teaching the intersections of technology & design through critical discourse analysis for international audiences

Authors

G. Edzordzi Agbozo, Michigan Technological UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

10-3-2020

Department

Department of Humanities

Abstract

In this paper I discuss how I used the technics of Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis to guide students' critical engagement with technical writing and design project for transnational/international/global context. I describe the motivation for this pedagogy, students' learning activities, and digital project. I then discuss some outcomes from this class as well as implications for technical and professional communication. Although I currently discuss results from one face-to-face classroom at this stage, I show the possibility of an experiment to integrate critical approaches into our pedagogy in an effort to guide students' conscientiousness about transnational/international/global contexts.

Publisher's Statement

© 2020 ACM. Publisher’s version of record: https://doi.org/10.1145/3380851.3416761

Publication Title

SIGDOC 2020 - Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

ISBN

['9781450375252']

Recommended Citation

Agbozo, G. E. (2020). Teaching the intersections of technology & design through critical discourse analysis for international audiences. SIGDOC 2020 - Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. http://doi.org/10.1145/3380851.3416761
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