Welding Technical Communication

Explores the teaching and learning of welding through two narratives: the personal narrative, relating the author''s experience as a woman learning how to weld, and the academic narrative examining how instructional communication informs students'' embodied knowledge and enculturation into a community of practice.

Welding Technical Communication explores the teaching and learning of welding through two narratives. The personal narrative relates the authors experience as a woman learning how to weld. The academic narrative draws upon scaffolded learning theory to examine how four welding teachers verbal and nonverbal communicationtheir tutoring strategies and their gesturesfacilitated students embodied knowledge and enculturation into a community of practice. This book fills a gap in technical communication research: we do not fully understand how teachers pedagogical technical communication scaffolds students learning within the skilled trades. Novel in its approach and coverage, Welding Technical Communication will interest researchers in technical communication and technical education.

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