Rethinking Post-Communist Rhetoric

Pavel Zemliansky is professor and director of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Central Florida.Kirk St. Amant is professor of technical and professional communication at East Carolina University.

• Part I: Institutional ContextsChapter 1: A Survey of Academic and Professional Writing Instruction in Higher Education in Russia and Ukraine, Pavel Zemliansky and Olena GoroshkoChapter 2: Introducing Western Writing Theory and Pedagogy to Russian Students: The Writing and Communication Center at the New Economic School, Kara M. BollingerChapter 3: Technical and Communication in Russia, Tatjana SchellPart II: Workplace ContextsChapter 4: Russian Education in the Twenty-First Century: Establishing Links with the Global Community, Alla V. Kourova Chapter 5: Rhetoric in Technical Communication: Europe and the United States, Yevgen BorodkinChapter 6: Visible and Invisible Boundaries: Documentation Requirements for Opening a Foreign Representative Office in Russia and in the United States, Natalia Matveeva and Elena BespalovaPart III: Geopolitical ContextsChapter 7: Mapping Professional and Technical Communication in German Higher Education in the Neue Länder since 1989, Steffen GuenzelChapter 8: Macro Acceptance, Micro Resistance? Perspectives from Serbian WritingTeachers on the Bologna Process, Brooke Ricker SchreiberPart IV: Multimedia Contexts Chapter 9: Creating a Multinational Collaborative Online Community in High-Tech Marketing Domain in Ukraine, Taras DankoChapter 10: Media Usage Pattern and Trust in Media among Young People in a LargeRussian City, Nikolai Balykov and Doan Modianos

While the collection will appeal to educators, professional technical communicators can find useful information, especially if they specialize in localization or their organizations regularly deal with post-Soviet countries…. I would recommend this collection for libraries and advanced classes in rhetorical and cross-cultural pedagogy.