Food Fights: Cookbook Rhetorics, Monolithic Constructions of Womanhood, and Field Narratives in Technical Communication

Rapid Prototyping

“…The social justice turn in technical communication has centralized inclusion in design thinking; yet, inclusion has been at the fore of user experience (UX) and design since the 1990s. As April O'Brien points out in her entry on social justice later in this collection, social justice issues, such as disability and accessibility (Colton & Walton, 2015;, gender and sexuality (Cox, 2018a(Cox, , 2018bEdenfield, 2019), feminism (Frost & Haas, 2017;Moeller & Frost, 2016), and race (Williams & Pimentel, 2014) are strongly tied to inclusion. Of course, this list is in no way exhaustive.…”

Taking the Tactical Out of Technical: A Reassessment of Tactical Technical Communication

“…This necessarily implicates the ideas associated with TTC. For example, the discussion of cookbooks (Durack, 1997; Fleitz, 2010; Moeller & Frost, 2016) or extraorganizational bicycle manuals written by women (Hallenbeck, 2012) are acceptable artifacts for study in technical communication. These artifacts are examples of noninstitutional DIY instructional materials analogous to TTC.…”

An Organizational Structure of Indie Rock Musicians as Displayed by Facebook Usage

“…Freelancers (Johnson-Eilola, 1996; Pigg, 2014), consultants (Palmer & Killingsworth, 2002), mom bloggers (Petersen, 2014), and automotive mechanics (Cushman, 2015) can be counted among their diverse ranks. Study of extra-institutional 1 individuals has contributed to the field’s understanding of disparate topics such as narrative (Van Ittersum, 2014), plain language (Ross, 2015), user resistance (Koerber, 2006), product reviews (Mackiewicz & Yeats, 2014), and the nature of the field (Moeller & Frost, 2016). While the study of extra-institutional individuals has enriched knowledge of concepts and genres in technical and professional communication, research including or focusing on the state of extra-institutional individuals often focuses on precarity (Johnson-Eilola, 1996; Loader, Cox, & Hailey, 2010; Wilson, 2001) or includes them as a demographic category in a larger population (Blythe, Lauer, & Curran, 2014; Tomlin, 2008).…”