Communities of health care and technical writing: Roundtable for teaching themes, techniques, and technologies
Room: Shadows
Chair: Susan Popham, University of Memphis
With the health care industry’s dramatic growth, many universities and colleges have sought to create courses that prepare their graduates to enter this field and its ancillary sub-fields. With such courses frequently housed in technical writing programs, teachers of technical writing are often the instructors charged with the task of guiding students in combining texts and technologies to reach a variety of audiences for a variety of purposes to improve health care delivery and education for patients, providers, and the health care industry. Often with limited knowledge of the health care field, many instructors wonder how to incorporate their knowledge of technical writing into their approaches to such courses. This roundtable panel aims to answer such questions by sharing experiences and strategies for teaching health care writing courses. Authors 2 and 3 will provide history and professional context, for planning and developing health care writing courses. Authors 4, 5, and 6 will cover plans for health care theme courses—histories, rhetorics, and cultural significance; Authors 7, 8, and 9 will address techniques for assignments, genres, information design, and audiences; Authors 10 and 1 will present ideas for incorporating newer technologies into health care writing courses.
Susan Popham, University of Memphis
Bruce Maylath, North Dakota State University
Lili Fox Velez, Towson University
Hannah Bellwoar, University of Illinois, UC
Lee Brasseur, Illinois State University
Miriam Mara , North Dakota State University
Jacqui Bleetman, Coventry University, UK
Patricia Golemon, University of Houston-Downtown
Rebecca Sutcliffe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Amy Koerber, Texas Tech University
