Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work

Rebecca Walton is associate professor of technical communication and rhetoric at Utah State University and editor-in-chief of Technical Communication Quarterly. Her coauthored work has won multiple national awards, including the 2020 CCCC Best Article Reporting Qualitative or Quantitative Research in Technical or Scientific Communication, the 2018 CCCC Best Article on Philosophy or Theory of Technical or Scientific Communication, the 2016 and 2017 Nell Ann Pickett Awards, and the 2017 STC Distinguished Article Award.  Godwin Y. Agboka is associate professor of technical and professional communication and director of the Master of Science in Technical Communication program at University of Houston–Downtown. His publications have appeared in Technical Communication Quarterly, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Technical Communication, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, and Connexions. He has also coedited several special issues and collections.

“An invaluable contribution to the field of technical communication. The book itself not only is timely but also will influence the field for years to come.”—Jenn Mallette, Boise State University  “Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work extends and explicates the application of social justice theories of technical communication to a wide variety of contexts, from our classrooms to marginalized communities in explicit ways. The contributions to future socially just scholarship is evident. It is one of a kind.”—Michelle Eble, East Carolina University“Engaging, enlightening, and enjoyable to read..”—CHOICE“Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work contains a much-needed discussion of grounded approaches to redressing social inequality within the realm of technical communication, and thus stands alone as possibly the only book ever to take on this topic.”—Technical Communication