Designing Multilingual Experiences in Technical Communication

Laura Gonzales is assistant professor of digital writing and cultural rhetorics in the Department of English at the University of Florida. She is the author of Sites of Translation: What Multilinguals Can Teach Us about Digital Writing and Rhetoric, the coeditor of Latina Leadership: Language and Literacy Education across Communities, and the author of numerous articles and collections related to language diversity, community engagement, and technical communication. Her work has been awarded the 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication Advancement of Knowledge Award, the 2020 7Cs Technology Innovator Award, and the 2016 Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Book Prize, among others. She is currently the vice president of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing and the editor of Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric.

“An excellent contribution to the much-needed transnational, translingual, and postcolonial studies in our contemporary context. The antiracist, participatory approach in this book leads us to future opportunities of multidimensional, intersectional understanding, appreciation, and compassion.”—Xiaobo (Belle) Wang, Sam Houston State University  “One of the most promising contributions to technical communication research in many years.The intersectional, interdependent approach to accessibility in technical communication has implications for the entire field. This is a major contribution.”—Miriam F. Williams, Texas State University”Designing Multilingual Experiences in Technical Communication reflects the shifting role of a technical communicator from a professional who relays, transmits, and translates information to one who embraces the broader picture of communication acts for a diverse population. . . . a crucial book for current pedagogical and scholarship purposes in the technical communication field.”—H-Net Reviews