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Sara Doan
Researcher at Kennesaw State University
Publications - 11
Citations - 39
Sara Doan is an academic researcher from Kennesaw State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Professional communication & Technical communication. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 9 publications receiving 18 citations. Previous affiliations of Sara Doan include University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
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Misrepresenting COVID-19: Lying With Charts During the Second Golden Age of Data Design
TL;DR: Examining data visualizations about COVID-19 highlights three ways that charts can mislead viewers: by displaying inadequate data, by manipulating scales and visual distance, and by omitting contextual labels needed to fully understand a chart’s message.
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Teaching Workplace Genre Ecologies and Pedagogical Goals Through Résumés and Cover Letters
TL;DR: This paper examined how and why 20 instructors in introductory service courses enact their pedagogical values and address current concerns (e.g., personal branness) and found that 20 instructors (17 tenure-line and 3 nontenure-line) performed well.
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The Communicative Work of Biology-Journal Captions: Lessons for Technical and Professional Communication
TL;DR: The authors performed a content analysis on captions from biology-journal articles and iteratively tested a coding scheme of caption content that can help in analyzing caption content, developing captions, and imparting a variety of TPC-related skills to students.
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Contradictory Comments: Feedback in Professional Communication Service Courses
TL;DR: Tensions between instructors’ values and their feedback comments highlight a lack of consensus about professional communication's pedagogical values for the service course, particularly higher order values, such as audience analysis or purpose through giving feedback.
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Digging, Displaying, and Translating: Content-Centric Feedback, Powered by Metaphors
TL;DR: This paper found that instructors often framed a deficit as a lack of information; however, when students included appropriate or meaningful content, instructors praised students and revised content, and cited the importance of providing and expressing information, orienting audiences, seeing information, finding information, considering detail and revising content.