KEY ELEMENTS FOR EXCELLENCE IN TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION AT MASTER LEVEL
KEY ELEMENTS FOR EXCELLENCE IN TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION AT MASTER LEVEL

Summary/Abstract: Working in a fast-paced industrial environment requires experts with new skills: one of these professionals is the technical communicator, whose main task does not imply solely writing instruction manuals for a large variety of products. Her/his duties should focus on managing electronic media, mastering elements of pragmatics, semantics, translation, engineering etc. The technical communicator should also be able to explore basic tools in rhetorical strategies, organizing, designing and editing documents, dealing with ethical issues and not in the least communicating across cultures. Undoubtedly, there is arising quantitative and qualitative labour market demand in the field of technical communication. Therefore, the development of a new master program specialization in the field of technical communication represents both a solution and a challenge, esp. in Romania where there are no academic programs and/or formal training for this profession. The paper addresses the requirements for training programs mainly derived from the outcomes of the Erasmus+Project „TecCOMFrame”(A Joint European Academic Framework and Curricula for the Training of Technical Communicators), that is to say the academic competence framework for technical communication and the prototype-curricula and modules (based on this framework) for training in this field. One of these prototype curricula, namely Specialization in Technical Communication within a Master’s in Engineering, used to provide a template so that a special curriculum could be tailored according to the needs and goals of the University Politehnica of Bucharest, where excellence in engineering education is a must. The paper presents the stages of the elaboration of this curriculum and proposes solutions on conceptual as well as methodological and technological level with a special focus on e-Learning and ICT tools.

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