Research articles

Sayyed Fawad Ali Shah, Faizullah Jan, and Eric Karikari
Using technical writing strategies to create Islamic Pakistani subjects: A case study of textbooks in Pakistan

Sandra Hill
The power of digital storytelling to communicate complex STEM information across cultures

Ashley Patriarca
Evolving concepts of risk: Justifying safety communication in a high-hazard intercultural industry

Emily January Petersen
Feminist historiography as methodology: The absence of international perspectives

Review article

Massimo Verzella
An ethical rationale for the teaching of English as a lingua franca in professional communication courses

Teaching cases

Philip J. Aust and Audrey W. Allison
International Organizational Communication Assessment (IOCA): Message analysis and effectiveness for a global age

Josephine Walwema
Revisioning exploratory discourse as a rhetorical frame for social media practice in business and professional communication

connexions interviews

Chris Westphal
analysis365, Washington, DC Metro Area, USA
transcript | video

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DESIGNING PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION ACROSS CULTURES

(6 MB)

From the editors

Quan Zhou and Guiseppe Getto

Editorial for special issue on designing professional communication across cultures

(pp. 3–7)

Research articles

Sanjeev Bothra

Role of design education in fostering values of social responsibility in designers (pp. 11–44)

Ann Hill Duin, Joseph Moses, Megan McGrath, Jason Tham, and Nathan Ernst

Design thinking methodology: A case study of “radical collaboration” in the wearables research collaboratory (pp. 45–74)

Laura Gonzales

But is that relevant here? A pedagogical model for embedding translation training within technical communication courses in the US (pp. 75–108)

Kirk St.Amant

Mapping the cultural context of care: An approach to patient-centered design in international contexts (pp. 109–124)

connexions interviews

Denny Huang
TANG User eXperience Consulting, Shanghai, China
transcript (pp. 127–136)
video

Huatong Sun
University of Washington | Tacoma, USA
transcript (pp. 137–149)
video

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PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL JUSTICE,
AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH

(3 MB)

From the editors

Gerald Savage and Godwin Agboka
Guest editors’ introduction to special issue: Professional communication, social justice, and the Global South (pp. 3–17)

Research articles

Huiling Ding, Xiaoli Li, and Austin Caldwell Haigler
Access, oppression, and social (in)justice in epidemic control: Race, profession, and communication in SARS outbreaks in Canada and Singapore (pp. 21–55)

Lucía Durá
What’s wrong here? What’s right here? Introducing the positive deviance approach to community-based work (pp. 57–89)

Ishani Mukherjee and Maggie Griffith Williams
Branding authenticity, global–localization and technology: Thematic analysis of two West Bengal urban–rural handicrafts NPO websites (pp. 91–130)

Dawn Opel and Paulette Stevenson
Do Women Win? Transnational development NGOs, discourses of empowerment, and cross-cultural technology initiatives in the Global South (pp. 131–157)

Rebecca Walton
Making expertise visible: A disruptive workplace study with a social justice goal (pp. 159–186)

connexions interviews

Rebecca Dingo
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
transcript (pp. 189–199)
video https://vimeo.com/166974163

Sonja Vartiala
Finnwatch, Finland
transcript (pp. 201–208)
video https://vimeo.com/166975599

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TRANSLATION AND INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION:
Building bridges and strengthening skills

(1.8 MB)

From the guest editors

Bruce Maylath, Ricardo Muñoz Martín, and Marta Pacheco Pinto
Translation and International Professional Communication: Building bridges and strengthening skills (pp. 3-9)

Research articles

Anne Ketola
Translation diaries of an illustrated technical text (pp. 13-40)

Cathy L. McGinnis and Joleen R. Hanson
Social inclusion: Text optimization for translation and readability in a multilingual world (pp. 41-90)

Yusaku Yajima and Satoshi Toyosaki
Bridging for a critical turn in translation studies: Power, hegemony, and empowerment (pp. 91-125)

Teaching cases

Brent C. Sleasman
A philosophy and ethics of international classroom translation: Communicative implications of oral mediation in Haiti (pp. 129-146)

Tytti Suojanen, Kaisa Koskinen, and Tiina Tuominen
Usability as a focus of multiprofessional collaboration: A teaching case study on user-centered translation (pp. 147-166)

connexions interviews

Aitor Medrano
Multilingual language service provider, Spain
video & transcript (pp. 169-179)

Kirk St. Amant
East Carolina University, USA
video  &  transcript (pp. 181-191)

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Vol. 3 • No. 1 • 2015

EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR
GLOBALLY-DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL TEAMS:
Preparing the workforce of the future

(3.8 MB)

From the guest editors

Pam Estes Brewer and Kirk St. Amant

Education and training for globally-distributed virtual teams: Preparing the workforce of the future (pp. 3-7)

Research articles

Lynnette G. Leonard, John C. Sherblom, Lesley A. Withers, and Jeffrey S. Smith

Training effective virtual teams: Presence, identity, communication openness, and conversational interactivity (pp. 11-45)

Velvet Weems-Landingham, Lydia Rose, and Veronica Cook-Euell

Negotiating availability within global virtual teams (GVTs) (pp. 47-67)

Focused commentary and industry perspectives

Marina Lin and Han Yu

A manager’s best practices to coordinate globally distributed teams (pp. 71-84)

Teaching cases

Joleen R. Hanson

Preparing globally distributed virtual team members to bridge boundaries of language difference: A graduate program teaching case (pp. 87-112)

Susan Spierre Clark, Andrew Berardy, Mark A. Hannah, Thomas P. Seager, Evan Selinger, and John Vianney Makanda

Group tacit knowledge and globally distributed virtual teams: Lessons learned from using games and social media in the classroom (pp. 113-151)

Karen Schroeder Sorensen, Steven Hammer, and Bruce Maylath

Synchronous and asynchronous online international collaboration: The Trans-Atlantic & Pacific Project (pp. 153-177)

connexions interviews

Tatiana Batova
Arizona State University, USA
video & transcript (pp. 181-189)

Ronit Mayer
SAP, Israel
video & transcript (pp. 191-198)

Afaf Steiert
Afaf Translations, LLC, USA
video & transcript (pp. 199-210)

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Vol. 2 • No. 1 • 2014

(3.5 MB)

From the editors

Rosário Durão and Kyle Mattson
A more complete experience: Revisiting digital production as connexions (pp. 3–4)

Research articles

Claudia Grinnell and Sandra Hill
Four paradigm shifts and a funeral: The demise and rise of the TC profession in the wake of Web 2.0 (pp. 7–31)

Marcy Leasum Orwig
The “genreology” of U.S. Army World War I reports: An exploration of historical genre change (pp. 33–55)

Focused commentary and industry perspectives

Lynn O. Ludwig
Social media in the classroom: Nemesis or necessity? Corporate America weighs in (pp. 59–71)

Teaching cases

Chase Mitchell
The potential of metaphor in ESL pedagogy: A pilot case study  (pp. 75–87)

Literature reviews

Eva Brumberger
Toward a framework for intercultural visual communication: A critical review and call for research  (pp. 91–116)

connexions interviews

Scott Abel
The Content Wrangler, USA  
video  &  transcript (pp. 119–136)

Kit Brown-Hoekstra
Comgenesis, LLC, USA
video  &  transcript (pp. 137–146)

Ricardo Muñoz Martín
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
video  &  transcript (pp. 147–155)

Anne Surma
Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia 
video  &  transcript (pp. 157–165)

Kim Yangsook
HansemEUG, Inc., Republic of Korea
video  &  transcript (pp. 167–171)

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