Over the past decade, the World Wide Web has dramatically changed the face of technical communication, but the teaching of writing has thus far altered very little to accommodate this rapidly changing context. Technical Communication and the World Wide Web offers substantial and broadly applicable strategies for teaching global communication issues affecting writing for the World Wide Web.

Editors Carol Lipson and Michael Day have brought together an exceptional group of experienced and well-known teacher-scholars to develop this unique volume addressing technical communication education. The chapters here focus specifically on curriculum issues and the teaching of technical writing for the World Wide Web, contributing a blend of theory and practice in proposing changes in curriculum and pedagogy. Contributors offer classroom examples that teachers at all levels of experience can adapt for their own classes. The volume provides comprehensive coverage of the technical communication curriculum, from the two-year level to the graduate level; from service courses to degree programs.

This volume is an important and indispensable resource for technical writing educators, and it will serve as an essential reference for curriculum and pedagogy development in technical communication programs.

• Contents 7
• Foreword 11
• Preface 15
• Introduction 17
• I: Implications for Curriculum in Degree and Service Programs 41
  • 1 Shaping Texts that Transform: Toward a Rhetoric of Objects, Relationships, and Views 43
  • 2 From Wordsmith to Object-Oriented Composing 59
  • 3 Teaching Information Architecture: Technical Communication in a Postmodern Context 77
  • 4 Rhetoric and Information Architecture as Pedagogical Frameworks for Web Site Design 97
  • 5 A New Web for the New Millennium 129
  • 6 Online Ethos and Intercultural Technical Communication: How to Create Credible Messages for International Internet Audiences 149
  • 7 Linking Russia and the United States in Web Forums: The Global Classroom Project 183
  • 8 Redesigning Our Technical and Individual Screens: The New "Windows" Opened by Teaching in a Former Soviet Republic 209
  • 9 Ethics and Technical Communication in a Digital Age 225
  • 10 Parsing Codes: Intellectual Property, Technical Communication, and the World Wide Web 239