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An Exploratory Study of Learning Transfer from the Online Technical Communication Course to the Workplace.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	An Exploratory Study of Learning Transfer from the Online Technical Communication Course to the Workplace./
Author:	Schnoll, Richard.
Description:	1 online resource (117 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-11A(E).
Subject:	Technical communication. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781369825398

An Exploratory Study of Learning Transfer from the Online Technical Communication Course to the Workplace.
Schnoll, Richard.

An Exploratory Study of Learning Transfer from the Online Technical Communication Course to the Workplace. - 1 online resource (117 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

For technical communication educators, a fundamental consideration is to what extent the skills and information students learn in the classroom are applied in a workplace environment. While this issue has been studied, it has not been examined from the perspectives of students taking an online writing course or of instructors teaching that kind of course. To investigate this issue, I conducted a two-part, qualitative study consisting of surveys and follow-up interviews that explored instructor and student (former and current) perceptions regarding learning transfer from online business and technical writing courses to postgraduate jobs or careers.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369825398Subjects--Topical Terms:

1179412
Technical communication.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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