ATISSA BANUAZIZI: So I'd say that one
of the most important things for communication instructors who
are partnering with technical faculty
is for everybody to have a shared understanding
of the assignment genres that you're working with.
So if students understand who they're talking to
and what the purpose and the context
of the communicative act are, rather than just saying,
like, it's an oral presentation, as though that's
some kind of descriptive term in any way,
the more they understand that, the better off
they're going to be.
Because then you can start to ask them
what practically speaking is likely to work
for getting the message across to that audience.
But that involves that all the instructors
be on the same page.
And so sort of sitting down with the instructors
at the beginning of the semester or beforehand,
and just getting from them a really clear understanding
of how they conceive of the assignment
and how they conceive of the genre
and how they conceive of, you know,
who the students are talking to and why
makes all the difference.