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Sam Dragga

Professor
Office: 212H
Email: sam.dragga@ttu.edu
Web: www.faculty.english.ttu.edu/dragga

Awards
Books
Book Chapters		 Edited Journal Issues
Recent Articles
Presentations

The Essentials of Technical Communication

Writers Repertoire 1

A Witers Repetoire 2: Aims and Purposes

Writers Repetoire 3: Nuts and Bolts

Reporting Technical Information, 11th ed.

Reporting Technical Information 10th ed

A Readers Repetoire

Editing-The Design of Rhetoric

 

Books

  • Essentials of Technical Communication, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012 [co-authored with Dr. Elizabeth Tebeaux, Texas A&M University]
  • Essentials of Technical Communication, Oxford University Press, 2010  [co-authored with Dr. Elizabeth Tebeaux, Texas A&M University].
  • A Writer's Repertoire 1: Rhetoric and Writing, Cengage, 2010  [co-authored with Dr. Gwendolyn Gong, Chinese University of Hong Kong].
  • A Writer's Repertoire 2: Aims and Purposes, Cengage, 2010  [co-authored with Dr. Gwendolyn Gong, Chinese University of Hong Kong].
  • A Writer's Repertoire 3: Nuts and Bolts, Cengage, 2010  [co-authored with Dr. Gwendolyn Gong, Chinese University of Hong Kong].
  • Reporting Technical Information. 11th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. [co-authored with Dr. Elizabeth Tebeaux, Texas A&M University].
  • Reporting Technical Information. 10th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. [co-authored with Dr. Thomas Pearsall, Emeritus, University of Minnesota, and Dr. Elizabeth Tebeaux, Texas A&M University].
  • A Reader's Repertoire. New York: HarperCollins, 1996 [co-edited with Dr. Gwendolyn Gong, Chinese University of Hong Kong].
  • A Writer's Repertoire. New York: HarperCollins, 1995 [co-authored with Dr. Gwendolyn Gong, Texas A&M University].
  • Technical Writing: Student Samples and Teacher Responses. St. Paul: Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, 1992. [editor]
  • Editing: The Design of Rhetoric. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing, 1989 [co-authored with Dr. Gwendolyn Gong, Texas A&M University].

 

Book Chapters

  • Dragga, S. (2010). In Margaret N. Hundleby and Jo Allen (Ed.), "The Ethical Role of the Technical Communicator in Assessment, Dialogue, and the Centrality of Humanity" in Assessment in Technical and Professional Communication (1st ed., pp. 225-228). Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing.
  • Gong, G., Dragga, S. (2008). In John H. Powers and Xiao Xiaosui. (Ed.), "SARS versus Atypical Pneumonia: Inconsistencies in Hong Kong’s Public Health Warnings and Disease-Prevention Campaign" in The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a Health Communication Crisis (1st ed., pp. 53-68). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

 

Edited Journal Issues

  • Dragga, S. (2010). Technical Communication Quarterly, Special Issue on Positioning Programs in Technical Communication (no. 3, 1st ed., vol. 19). Philadelphia, PA: Routledge.
  • Dragga, S. (2001). Technical Communication Quarterly, Special Issue on Ethics in Technical Communication,.

 

Recent Articles

  • Dragga, S. (2011). "Cooperation or Compliance: Building Dialogic Codes of Conduct". TechnicalCommunication, 58(1), 4-18.
  • "Hiding Humanity: Verbal and Visual Ethics in Accident Reports," Technical Communication 50 (2003): 61-82.  [co-authored with Dan Voss, Lockheed Martin Corporation].
  •  "Cruel Pies: The Inhumanity of Technical Illustrations," Technical Communication, 48 (2001): 265-274  [co-authored with Dan Voss, Lockheed Martin Corporation].
  • "Ethical Intercultural Technical Communication: Looking through the Lens of Confucian Ethics," Technical Communication Quarterly, 8 (1999): 365-381.  Reprinted in Intercultural Communication: A Reader, 11th ed., edited by Larry A. Samovar, Richard E. Porter, and Edwin R. McDaniel, Belmont: Thomson Wadsworth, 2006, pp. 420-430.
  • "The Right Information at the Right Time." Careers and the Engineer 11.2 (1999): 66.
  • "China is Hungry: Technical Communication in the People's Republic of China," Technical Communication 46 (1999): 36-41 [co-authored with Patricia Tegtmeier, Sylvia Thompson, Ron Smith, and Deb L. Scroggs
  • "Electronic Communication." Reporting Technical Information. 9th ed. Needham Heights: Allyn & Bacon, 1998 [contributing author].
  • "SARS versus Atypical Pneumonia: Inconsistencies in Hong Kong's Public Health Warnings and Disease-Prevention Campaign. The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a Health Communication Crisis. Ed. John H. Powers and Xiao Xiaosui. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008. 53-68.  [co-authored with Dr. Gwendolyn Gong, Chinese University of Hong Kong].

 

Presentations

Invited

  • Dragga, S., Nanjing Forestry University, School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing, China, "Filtering Information, Making Knowledge," International. (May 2010).
  • Dragga, S., Southeast University, School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing, China, "Mapping Ethical Judgments in Technical Communication: A Review of Theories and Perspectives," International. (May 2010).
  • Dragga, S., STC Region 6 Conference of Student Chapters, Society for Technical Communication, Springfield, MO, "Crisis and Conscience in Technical Communication: Using Case Studies to Cultivate Ethics," Regional, Peer Reviewed/Refereed, Published in Proceedings. (April 2009).
  • Dragga, S., IPCC, IEEE Professional Communication Society, Montreal, "Online Ph.D. Programs in Technical Communication and Rhetoric: Examining the New Nature of Higher Education in the Information Economy," International, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (July 2008).