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Analysis of "The Design of Everyday Thinking"
Donald Normand’s “The Design of Everyday Things,” provides an in-depth analysis that essentially states that it shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to perform and operate everyday tasks. Instead, everyday objects such as a thermostat, an oven, or your computer keyboard...
Analysis of "The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust"
Steven Katz’s “The Ethic of Expediency” provides insight about the dangers of rhetorical use when in unethically sound situations. He begins his work with a disturbing memo from a Nazi to his supervisor about technical alterations that needed to occur to death chamber-vans in order to more efficiently “process” their “loads” (p. 255)...
Analysis of "Mapping the Research Questions in Technical Communication"
This article by Carolyn Rude makes an interesting theme when individuals define academic fields. Rude explains how the identity of any academic field is grounded in their research. Some fields are easily identifiable, such as biology or philosophy, but technical communication is an exception...
Analysis of "Genre Research in Workplace and Professional Contexts"
Within an article titled "Genre Research in Workplace and Professional Contexts," authors Bawarshi and Reiff analyze and differentiate the genres of academia and the workplace. As two separate working genres, these two concepts are seen as being “worlds apart” because of the various goals and structures of each situation...
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ABOUT THIS SITE
For my class WRTC 350, Foundations in Technical Communications, I was tasked with analyzing and researching information regarding bike safety, laws, and current events.
Reading Log 1 hosts a series of posts that vary in topic. Reading Log 2 is a series of five annotations of instruction sets. Reading Log 3 is another series of annotations of journal articles. And the last menu tab is a work instruction set I created with a group of individuals regarding bike safety on a college campus
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Summary of "Trust, Emotion, Sex, Politics, and Science: Surveying the Risk-Assessment Battlefield"
Paul Slovic's research from 1999 on "Trust, Emotion, Sex, Politics, and Science: Surveying the Risk-Assessment Battlefield," reveals the many different interpretations of risk. Primarily, Slovic's argument revolves around how the public identifies risk - which is broad...
Analysis of "Visualizing a Non-Pandemic: Considerations for Communicating Public Health Risks in Intercultural Contexts"
Ebola is a dangerous virus that can cause severe bleeding, organ failure, and often death. With its major outbreak in 2014, the fear of Ebola spread across the world along with the disease. What seems ironic, though, in hindsight, is that the virus wasn’t actually spreading as quickly and diversely as people thought...