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CCR760 – CMS in Technical Communication – Just Notes

Posted by justin on February 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Technical Communication Quarterly 17(1) 2008 “Guest Editors’ Introduction: Rationalizing and Rhetoricizing Content Management” by George Pullman and Baotong Gu The authors argue that we’ve been practicing CM for years through work like single sourcing, knowledge management and course management (Blackboard, etc.) This issue is an attempt to move technical communication from the static sphere of document design to the dynamic horizon of... Read More

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CCR760 – Miller, Rutter, Sullivan, Lay, Slack et. al.

Posted by justin on January 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Readings from Johnson-Eilola and Selber’s Central Works in Technical Communication Miller, C. (1979, 2004). A humanistic rationale for technical communication. 47-54. Rutter, R. (1991, 2004). History, rhetoric, & humanism: Toward a more comprehensive definition of technical communication. 20-34. Sullivan, D.L. (1990, 2004). Political-ethical implications of defining technical communication as a practice. 211-219. Lay,... Read More

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CCR691 – Final Project – Rivers

Posted by justin on November 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Rivers, Nathaniel A. “Some Assembly Required: The Latourian Collective and the Banal Work of Technical and Professional Communication.” Journal of Technical Writing & Communication 38 3 (2008): 189-206. Print. Rivers wants to address how collecting technologies into temporary and permanent strucutres to address the common world for the common good. For Rivers, this should be the goal that technical and professional communicators... Read More

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music

New Music 8/31/2010

Hello again. I thought I’d share with you some of the new stuff I’ve come across this week. . . 1. Stornoway – Beachcomber’s Windowsill : Sharing their band name with a small city in the North of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, this Oxford based folk / pop outfit create soft songs with [...]

New Music – 8/16/ – 8/23 2010

1. Haruka Nakamura – Twilight : Nakamura is often referred to as a “composer” more than a “musician” . . . which is probably just as well. This album offers feathery, feeting piano/acoustic guitar pieces accompanied by soft female vocals and a host of clicks, pops, and other lo-fi ambient noise. The piano compositions (they’re [...]

New Music: 8/8 – 8/15

Here are a couple of new releases I’ve listened through this week. . . 1. Of Montreal – False Priest: I haven’t been a huge fan of much that Of Montreal has released since Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer? and this album is no different. Though there is some really nice glam/funk/soul stuff on [...]