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Edge's View of Technical Communication: Mario Bunge
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Edge's View of Technical Communication. Monday, August 31, 2009. Bunge, M. (2003). Philosophical Inputs and Outputs of Technology. In R. C. Scharff and V. Dusek (Eds.), Philosophy of Technology: The Technological Condition (pp. 172-181). Malden, MA: Blackwell. Technologists value energy expenditure, useless objects have no value, resources have some value based on their usefulness to create artifacts, and artifacts have the most value due to their creation. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Edge's View of Technical Communication: The 5 paragraph essay, clustering and mind mapping
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Edge's View of Technical Communication. Wednesday, October 25, 2006. The 5 paragraph essay, clustering and mind mapping. I have not completed a literature review on the subject, but I feel that professors have used this technique in the past and it may be considered passe. I am excited about a tool that has the potential to transfer the abilities that capable students already possess into more complex abilities. Abilities they will be able to use in other classes and after they graduate.
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ENGL5377 - Digital Writing Research: Case Studies
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ENGL5377 - Digital Writing Research. Monday, July 14, 2008. What's good/bad about case studies when technology is concerned? Case studies can often feel one sided and more slanted if the researcher is not entirely careful. They provide a valuable tool though. The tool of story telling. If case studies are completed rigorously. The use of technology also allowed her to contact and include an international study participant to whom she might have not otherwise had contact. Posted by Julie M. Davis. Mumford...
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Edge's View of Technical Communication: Mumford's vs. the Megamachine
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Edge's View of Technical Communication. Thursday, September 10, 2009. Mumford's vs. the Megamachine. Mumford, L. (2003). Tool-Users vs. Homo Sapiens and The Megamachine. In R. C. Scharff and V. Dusek (Eds.), Philosophy of Technology: The Technological Condition (pp. 252-264). Malden, MA: Blackwell. Mumford contends that the machine age began with human civilization and the continuing the aims of the megamachine becomes the purpose of human existence. He calls for reimagining human existence outside t...
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Edge's View of Technical Communication: Balancing Act
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Edge's View of Technical Communication. Wednesday, September 13, 2006. How will I balance teaching and scholarship? Being satisfied with quitting might be the most difficult balancing point. Finding the point where class has been prepared satisfactorily, the ICON quota has been met, all the material has been read for class and papers have been researched ahead of schedule will probably never happen. I have to accept that and keep doing the next best thing. Fawn rules, doesn't she? Who am I as a teacher?
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Edge's View of Technical Communication: Tools, time and space for writing
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Edge's View of Technical Communication. Thursday, August 31, 2006. Tools, time and space for writing. Reexperiencing the Ordinary: Mapping Technology's Impact on Everyday Life. Do we take time to write? John Grisham wrote his novels during his train commute to his job as an attorney. Do we write the same at the end of the day as we do at the beginning? Does speeding up the process of writing improve our writing, so If we are faster writers are we better writers? I'm thinking of Stacy's post about her hus...
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Edge's View of Technical Communication: Interesting questions -- too many
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Edge's View of Technical Communication. Tuesday, July 01, 2008. Interesting questions - too many. What are the questions you think are the most interesting in the digital age? How does education change in a digital age? There are a number of parts to this question with one of my favorite being, how do people educate themselves using the internet? Is someone just telling a good story? That's the bad side. On the positive side, how do consumers make better decisions? These are probably some of the same que...
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ENGL5377 - Digital Writing Research: Problems in the Internet World
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ENGL5377 - Digital Writing Research. Monday, July 14, 2008. Problems in the Internet World. What are the biggest Problems associated with studying online environments? The entire design can be easily changed through CSS. I have a 10,000 some odd page Web site that I control for the university that I can now change in a matter of hours or less given lead time. This ability for change could affect someone who is working on a study of visual style and representation of web pages or certain styles. Machine c...
