"Teaching Technical Communication with Wikis"
About the AuthorJennifer Bracken Scott is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Professional Communication at New Mexico State University. Her interests include technical communication pedagogy and classroom applications for multimedia. She presented earlier versions of this article at the 2009 Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association conference and the 2009 Computers and Writing conference.
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