The material
gathered (and pointed to) here represents a random selection of writing
and conference presentations I've worked on over the last half decade
or so. Many of the links point to MS Word and PowerPoint files rather
than native web pages given the nature of various projects.
Central Works: Landmark Essays in Technical
Communication |
Co-edited with Stuart A. Selber, published
by Oxford University Press. A collection of essays on basic and
advanced topics in technical communication. More
info and links to ordering pages. |
Subject Lines: Fragmentation, Construction, and Computing |
Draft of materials for upcoming talks at the University
of Vermont and the University of Arizona. (About half the slides
will show up in the first talk, and half in the second. The [750k]
PowerPoint file here is the combined, "Big Picture" version. |
Datacloud |
Early manuscript version of chapters
for Datacloud (forthcoming in Hampton Press Advances
in Computers and Composition Series). Research and thinking about
work in information-saturated spaces (online and concrete). See
some even earlier incarnations in
|
Crateware: Open Source Courseware
for Project- and Team-Based Learning |
Overviews of the Crateware
Project, ongoing effort with Brent Faber to create Open Source,
modular software for project-based, team-oriented learning, including
|
Composition as Architecture |
CCCC 1999 talk, "space | action | movement: Understanding
Composition as Architecture." (HTML
and MS Word [79k]
versions) |
Postmodernism and Interface Design |
Series of related papers on postmodernism in interface design,
including
|
Tech Comm as Symbolic-Analytic Work |
Several papers on the problems of authority and
power in technical communication, including
These eventually lead to
|
Intellectual Property |
Work on intellectual property and composition, particularly online
IP issues:
"Copyright Matters Online,"
a 2002 CCCC Featured Talk (105k PowerPoint talk)
|
Decontextualization in Technical Communication |
Some slightly related work on ethics of technical communication,
including
|
From Essays to Databases |
These pieces (as well as Datacloud work)
are part of rethinking writing less as static text (linear or hypertextual)
and more as dynamic, contingently constructed texts like databases
(and I mean "like" as a metaphor here).
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After Hypertext |
Some notes about what comes after hypertext, if anything, including
|
Nostalgic Angels |
Some materials related to Nostalgic Angels: Rearticulating
Hypertext Writing, including
Page
at Greenwood Press for ordering
Cindy
Selfe's page on the book as part of the New Directions in Computers
and Composition series
Chapter 5 in online form |
Designing Usable Online Texts |
A 2002 Wildacres Writing Retreat Workshop on Designing
Usable Online Texts
A 1997 CCCC Workshop on Website
Design (this looks like it was designed in 1997) (previous
archived versions of this have been deleted) |