A Modestly Unpopular Proposal – CCR760
You all likely guessed what article I would be responding to this week. Since last semester I’ve been involved in multiple discussions with multiple people – faculty, grad students, undergrads – about the role of technological proficiency when composing digital texts in our writing classes. The reigning consensus (albeit with small affordances made to the nuance and complexity of the process of writing in our classes) is that we need not worry with developing or teaching... Read More
CCR760 – Miller – Genre as Social Action
Miller, Carolyn R. “Genre as Social Action.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 70 2 (1984): 151-67. Print. Miller isn’t content with the definition of genre as 1) similarity in strategies or forms in discourse; 2) similarities in audience; 3) similarities in modes of thinking; and 4) similarities in rhetorical situations (151). Working from Korhrs Campbell and Jamieson, Miller contends that the study of genre is useful not because it creates a taxonomy but because it... Read More
CCR760 – Sharing is Social, Meaning is Automatic: Web 2.0/3.0 – Social Media Readings
I thought the readings for the week were really interesting, if a little celebratory. . . and why shouldn’t they be? At its core, it would appear that Web 2.0 is really about extending the realm of sociality from the meat world into digital spaces. Collaborative web tools like RSS, Delicious, etc., herald a fundamentally different web that embraces constellations of networked social connections and allows for a decentralization (democratization?) of control from monolithic... Read More
CCR760 – Usability Readings – Just Notes
Kim, Loel, et al. “Keeping Users at the Center: Developing a Multimedia Interface for Informed Consent.” Technical Communication QuarterlyCommunication & Mass Media Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Mar. 2010. 17.3 (2008): 335-357. In this article the authors document their process of creating a user-centered design to develop online support for informed consent in pediatric research trials. To achieve this, the authors had to discover solutions to problems that included: ... Read More
Information Design – 3.8.2010
Reading from Digital Literacy for Technical Communication: 21st Century Theory and Practice Edited by Rachel Spilka Michael J. Salvo and Paula Rosinski – “Information Design: From Authoring Text to Architecting Virtual Space” I think there is a lot going on in this article that overlaps with reading I’ve been doing over the past couple of weeks for other projects. I haven’t been feeling that well, so if this entry rambles, forgive me! J Anyhow, I think that... Read More
