Embodied Environmental Risk in Technical Communication

Samuel Stinson is assistant professor of English with Minot State University where he also serves as the director of the Northern Plains Writing Project and coordinator of the English concentration in the M.Ed. program. He also serves as a list manager for the WritingStudies-L listserv and currently co-coordinates the Writing about Writing special interest group with the Conference on College Composition and Communication. His research interests include professional writing, multimodality, game studies, and pedagogy. His current research focuses on writing transfer and online platforms. Mary Le Rouge is director of writing at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She is an active member of the Conference on College Composition & Communication and its Environmental Special Interest Group, among other organizations. Her research lies at the intersection of the humanities and the sciences, looking for ways to improve communication between experts, policymakers, and the public.

Dedication Foreword Chapter 1: Introduction PART I: Representations of the Human Body Chapter 2: Toward an Audience-Centered Approach: Rhetorical Analysis of University Crisis Communication Emails Chapter 3: Embodied Risk Communication in the COVID-19 Pandemic Environment Chapter 4: Judging the Unprecedented: Common Sense and Risk During COVID-19 Chapter 5: College Freshmen Challenging Embodied Environmental Risks PART II: Representations of the Earth’s Body Chapter 6: The Ohio River: Re-imagining Water Risk Through Embodied Deliberation Chapter 7: Private Groundwater Contamination and Integrated Risk Communication Chapter 8: Public Responses to a Proposed Wind Farm and their Application to Technical Communication Methods Chapter 9: Evaluating Ecological Perceptions and Approaches in the Fourth National Climate Assessment Report PART III: Representations of Human and Earth Together Chapter 10: Reconciling Gestures: Overcoming Obstacles to Transcultural Risk Communication in South African Coal Mines Chapter 11: Reanimating Risks: Forest Giants and Their Role in Technical Communication Chapter 12: Technical Writing as Embodiment: iFixit Chapter 13: Changing Places: Understanding Climate Change Risk Communication and Comprehension through Socially Constructed Features of Place Chapter 14: An Antiracist Rhetoric of Embodied Risk