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Negotiating Cultural Encounters : narrating intercultural engineering and technical communication / edited by Han Yu, Gerald Savage.

Contributor(s): Savage, Gerald J [�editeur intellectuel de compilation.] | Yu, Han, 1980- [�editeur intellectuel de compilation.] | IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | Wiley [publisher.].

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BookSeries: IEEE PCS Professional Engineering Communication Series: 1Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : Piscataway, N.J. : Wiley ; IEEE Press, 2013Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2013]Description: 1 PDF (xiv, 267 pages).Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781118504871.Subject(s): Communication of technical information | Intercultural communicationGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification: 621.382 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Preface; A Note from the Series Editor; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 Changing Times, Changing Style Guides; CHAPTER 2 Concinnity of Assorted Nuts; CHAPTER 3 Learning Curve; CHAPTER 4 Lost in Translation; CHAPTER 5 Collective Learning in East Africa: Building and Transferring Technical Knowledge in Livestock Production; CHAPTER 6 That's Worth Waiting For: GLDD's Spanish JSA Booklet; CHAPTER 7 Making Excellence a Habit across Interculturai Barriers; CHAPTER 8 Crash of Cultures

CHAPTER 9 Collaboration on a Pan-European Project Spanning 35 National Research and Education Networks across the European UnionCHAPTER 10 Are Chinese Documents Ready for Global Audiences?; CHAPTER 11 Subject Matter Expert Meets Technical Communicator: Stories of Mestiza Consciousness in the Automotive Industry; CHAPTER 12 My Life as an EFL Trainer/Technical Translator in Shanghai, China; Index

Summary: Discusses the challenges of intercultural communication in engineering, technical, and related professional fields Given today's globalized technical and engineering environment, intercultural communication is an essential topic for engineers, other technical professionals, and technical communicators to learn. Engineering programs, in particular, need to think about how to address the ABET requirement for students to develop global competence and communication skills. This book will help readers learn what intercultural communication is like in the workplace-which is an import.

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Discusses the challenges of intercultural communication in engineering, technical, and related professional fields Given today's globalized technical and engineering environment, intercultural communication is an essential topic for engineers, other technical professionals, and technical communicators to learn. Engineering programs, in particular, need to think about how to address the ABET requirement for students to develop global competence and communication skills. This book will help readers learn what intercultural communication is like in the workplace-which is an import.

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Negotiating Cultural Encounters : narrating intercultural engineering and technical communication / edited by Han Yu, Gerald Savage.

Contributor(s): Savage, Gerald J [�editeur intellectuel de compilation.] | Yu, Han, 1980- [�editeur intellectuel de compilation.] | IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | Wiley [publisher.].