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"kairotically speaking": Kairos and the Power of Identity" in Kairos, Tenth Anniversary issue. August 2006. [lead article]
This webtext examines the online journal Kairos from what Manual Castells calls a project identity. Using Langdon Winner's concept of autonomous technology and method of dismantling, I examine the power of Kairos's identity in terms of its effect on scholarly practices.
"Communities of Practice: The Shopfloor of Human Capital" in Resources in Technical Communication, edited by Cynthia Selfe (forthcoming from Baywood)
This publication describes one of the outcomes identified for my technical communication classes—students will learn how to participate in a community of practice.
"Variations on a Theme: The Technology Autobiography as a Versatile Writing Assignment" in Teaching Writing with Computers: An Introduction (pp. 219-257), edited by Pamela Takayoshi and Brian Huot, 2003.
This chapter describes using technology narratives in the writing classroom to help students and teachers unpack unarticulated assumptions about technology.
"Story Time: Teaching Technical Communication as a Narrative Way of Knowing" in Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication, edited by Tracy Bridgeford, Karla Kitalong, and Dickie Selfe, Utah State University Press, 2004.
This chapter describes how narrative works in a technical communication classroom as a means for constructing knowledge.
Reshaping Technical Communication: New Directions and Challenges for the 21st Century, edited by Rachel Spilka and Barbara Mirel, Technical Communication Quarterly, 13(1): 131-134.
Although this review appears in print under my editorship, it was actually edited by the previous book review editor.
Computers and Technical Communication: Pedagogical and Programmatic Perspectives, edited by Stuart Selber, Technical Communication Quarterly, 8(4), 473-476.
Opening Spaces: Writing Technologies and Critical Research Practices, by Patricia Sullivan and James E. Port, Computers and Composition 15, 429-432.