Teaching Writing: Ideas and Strategies
This podcast talks about ways post-secondary instructors in all disciplines can help their students and themselves become better writers.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 64
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2021
Episode 64: How to write short reports
Of the many kinds of writing done at work, writing short reports to update others about our work must rank high on the list of important and frequent documents written. This episode describes how to …
00:06:26 |
Mon 30 Aug 2021
Episode 63: How to write a good proposal
How do you write a good proposal? This episode, based on Chapter 10 of Business Communication: Rhetorical Situations, describes how to prepare both solicited and unsolicited proposals.
00:10:15 |
Wed 25 Aug 2021
Episode 62: Writing Persuasive Messages
How can you write messages that will persuade your readers to adopt your point of view or proposed action? This episode, based on Chapter 9 of Business Communication: Rhetorical Situations (broadview…
00:07:46 |
Wed 18 Aug 2021
Episode 61: Say it ain't so: Writing Negative Messages
How can you deliver bad news while maintaining the best chance of not alienating your reader? This episode, based on Chapter 8 of Business Communication: Rhetorical Situations (Broadview.com), explai…
00:06:41 |
Fri 13 Aug 2021
Episode 60: How to write a positive message
This episode focuses on how to write positive and informative messages.It is based on Chapter 7 of Business Communication: Rhetorical Situations (Broadview.com).
00:06:29 |
Wed 11 Aug 2021
Episode 59: Communicating Across Cultures
How do we adjust our communications for audiences from cultural backgrounds different from our own? This episode starts with advice on how to do this for audiences within North America and then consi…
00:10:04 |
Wed 14 Jul 2021
Episode 58: Writing in Teams
This episode identifies two models for writing as part of a team: hierarchical and dialogic. Good team behaviors and behaviors to avoid are also discussed, as well as ways to resolve conflict.
00:10:45 |
Mon 12 Jul 2021
Episode 57: Teaching Business Communication
This episode provides a guide to using the sample syllabus, lesson plans, assignments, and grading rubrics for our Business Communication: Rhetorical Situations book (all materials are at wecanwrite.…
00:10:45 |
Tue 29 Jun 2021
Episode 56: Writing Online at Work
This episode begins with an overview of how to write a good email message before moving on to give some tips on how to write for social media.
00:09:23 |
Tue 29 Jun 2021
Episode 55: Writing Style at Work
This episode considers the kind of writing style you should employ in business and professional contexts, including a discussion of plain language principles.
00:12:02 |
Wed 23 Jun 2021
Episode 54: Arguing persuasively in business contexts
This episode provides an overview of Chapter 2 of Business Communication: Rhetorical Situations. It helps listeners understand how to create a persuasive argument in a business setting.
00:10:25 |
Mon 21 Jun 2021
Episode 53: Audience, Purpose and Genre in Business Communications
This episode discusses three key elements of any kind of business communication: who you communicate with, why you are communicating with them, and what kind of communication you use.
00:10:53 |
Fri 18 Jun 2021
Episode 52: Presenting Technical Communication
People often fear giving presentations, but this episode offers strategies to ditch the fear and embrace the occasion.
00:08:55 |
Mon 22 Mar 2021
Episode 51: Technical Communication Online
To communicate technical communication effectively, we need to use online modes: file-sharing, pdfs, screencasts, podcasts, and more.
00:07:15 |
Fri 19 Mar 2021
Episode 50: How to Write a Lab Report
What are the basic elements of a laboratory report in the sciences? This episode describes the sections of the lab report and what to put in the different sections.
00:07:15 |
Wed 10 Mar 2021
Episode 49: Reports
This episode provides an overview of short and long reports from Chapter 7 of the Concise Guide to Technical Communication (Broadview Press).
00:09:11 |
Thu 04 Mar 2021
Episode 48: Essentials of Business Communication
What is the least you need to know to get started writing in an organization? This episode provides an overview of Chapter 6 of the Concise Guide to Technical Communication. We focus on audience, gen…
00:07:12 |
Wed 03 Mar 2021
Episode 47: When to use visuals in technical communication
When--and which--visuals should you use when communicating technical and scientific information? This podcast gives a short overview of the answers to those questions from Chapter 5 of our Concise Gu…
00:06:45 |
Fri 26 Feb 2021
Episode 46: Supporting Students after an Academic Integrity Infraction
How do we help students come back after an academic integrity infraction? In this episode, I talk with Dr. Tyler Cawthray of the University of Southern Queensland about the strategies they employ to …
00:18:19 |
Sat 06 Feb 2021
Episode 45: Writing Technical Prose
This episode describes techniques outlined in Chapter 4 of the Concise Guide to Technical Communication (broadview.com) to make your writing clearer, more cohesive, and more concise.
00:09:50 |
Tue 15 Dec 2020
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