The December 2009 Chapter Meeting
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How Technical Communication Supports High School Literacy
This talk explains how a decade-long East Bay STC literacy
outreach project has helped underperforming high-school students
(and their teachers) improve basic nonfiction writing skills
by applying a cognitive apprenticeship approach, adapting
real-world instruction and description cases into age-appropriate
practice activities, and introducing participants to professional
usability techniques.
Speaker:
T. R. Girill has recently retired from a 30-year career in
technical communication at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
where he led the computer documentation project at the National
Energy Research Supercomputer Center for over a decade. He
has published numerous technical articles, and has taught
students at the College of Alameda and other professionals at
U.C. Santa Cruz Extension. He is an STC Fellow and he served
as editor in chief of the Association for Computing Machinery's
Journal of Computer Documentation from 1995 to 2000.
Since 1999 he has also managed a technical literacy project for
the East Bay chapter of STC. It is this project he will talk about tonight.
Date:
Times:
Location:
T. R. Girill
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
6:00 to 7:00 pm: Networking, conversation & dinner
7:00 to 7:15 pm: Announcements
7:15 to 8:30 pm: Presentation
8:30 to 9:00 pm: Conversation,
follow up on job announcements
9:00 to 9:15 pm: Clear the room; move conversations to the sidewalk
Highlands Country Club,110 Hiller Drive, Oakland, California