Though not yet finished my reading for this week, I wanted to blog about two of the articles I am reading. The first is by Jennifer Daryl Slack, David James Miller, and Jeffrey Doak. It’s called “Technical Communicator as Author: Meaning, Power, Authority.” The second is “Extreme Usability and Technical Communication” by Bradley Dilger. Both [...]
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Technical communicator: author and extreme usability
Posted: March 2, 2009 in Readings, Review, School, UsabilityTags: exams, PhD, research, Review, School, User Centered Design
Discount Peer Response=Peer Response 2.0
Posted: February 9, 2009 in Brainstorm, Discount Peer Response, Publication, School, Usability, writingI had a meeting on Friday where I described my thesis and my idea of discount peer response. At first, the person I was talking to thought it was a fine name, but when I started going through my ideas and hit Peer Response 2.0, she said that was perfect and that the idea was [...]
Discount Peer Response no more
Posted: February 6, 2009 in Brainstorm, Discount Peer Response, iteration, Publication, School, Usability, writingIn about 10 minutes, I’m going to a meeting to discuss my theory of discount peer response. In a few months, assuming I can still get a plane ticket, I’ll present it at CCCC (which was iffy for a bit, until I found I had departmental funding). Somewhere between now and the beginning of the [...]
The changing nature of peer response: What does Google Docs really mean?
Posted: February 23, 2008 in Brainstorm, Discount Peer Response, iteration, Pedagogy, Usability, writingMuch as I would love this to flow out of me as a fully formed academic argument, complete with support and high enough quality to immediately merit publication (and, as long as I’m dreaming, wide spread accolade), that just isn’t going to happen. So, at best, I can call this a brainstorm that may eventually [...]
Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen
Posted: January 26, 2008 in Review, UsabilityTags: exams, research, Review, School
In all honesty, I wasn’t sure how much value I’d really get out of this book once I started reading it. It’s not that Nielsen isn’t saying good and important things. It’s just that this book has been so influential that I already knew most of the stuff he was talking about. The book was [...]
Usability Engineering by Jakob Nielsen
Posted: January 15, 2008 in Review, Usability, writingTags: research, Review, School
The new semester has begun, and I am back to work. I’ve set a goal for myself of reading 500 pages a week, one that I imagine will take me a little while to get up to. But more importantly, I’ve decided that I will not write for my thesis at least until March, thus [...]
Discount Peer Response
Posted: December 4, 2007 in Discount Peer Response, iteration, Pedagogy, UsabilityMy paper is really coming together. I need to move a few things around, but the essence of it is pretty solid. As I worked through it last weekend, I found that discount peer response just makes sense. I’m kind of amazed no one has ever written about this before. Of course, probably someone has; [...]
I have finally gotten my hands on Nielsen’s Usability Engineering. I’m very early on (about 40 pages in), but I have to say that my earlier ideas of mapping usability on to writing studies are feeling more and more dead on. I almost feel as though I could write another book, modeled on Nielsen’s, that [...]