Communication Across the Curriculum and in the Disciplines: Speaking in Engineering

摘要: This study embraces a communication in the disciplines (CID) theoretical framework and explores meanings associated with speaking competently as an engineer. Using qualitative methodology, I analyze faculty lectures evaluations, student dress final presentations, course materials from senior design series describe emerging features of competence engineering. Results indicate five important engineering: simplicity, persuasiveness, results-oriented, numerically rich visually sophisticated-all which invoke skill translation. Ultimately, this makes contributions that suggest orality site for disciplinary knowledge construction, socialization, negotiation tension.