Writing in the Health Professions. Barbara A. Heifferon. New York: Longman, 2005. 315 pp.: Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine. Judy Z. Segal. Carbondale,IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. 217 pp |
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| Authors: | Michelle F Eble |
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| Institution: | East Carolina University |
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| Abstract: | Technical writing instruction often operates in isolation from other components of students' communication education, partly as a consequence of assessment practices that lead to a narrow perspective. We argue for altering this isolation by moving writing instruction into a position of increased programmatic perspective, which may be attained through a means of assessment based on educational outcomes. Two models of technical writing instruction, centralized and diffused, are discussed, and we show how outcomes-based assessment provides for the change in perspective we seek. |
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