Still Life with Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics

Gries, Laurie E.

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“…Accordingly, no two PDIs in use will share the same material, discursive, or symbolic characteristics because they are enacted by different, always-themselves-changing configurations of people, technologies, units, institutions, and other intraactive phenomena. This is what Gries (2015), following Mol (2002), is talking about when she argues that "a single multiple [text] becomes rhetorical [. .…”

Section: Improving Patient Discharge Communication: Identifying Challmentioning

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Improving Patient Discharge Communication

Gouge

2016

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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Transitional care communication events-such as discharge from hospital-are complex and dynamic: impromptu questions are asked and answered, documents are discussed and signed, and health-care professionals and patients with different knowledge must work together to establish understanding. This article examines a set of patient discharge instructions that bear substantial traces of impromptu conversation in the patient discharge communication process and argues that we need to do more to account for such exchanges as a part of the complex information our documentation must coordinate and make accessible for end users.

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Section: Improving Patient Discharge Communication: Identifying Challmentioning

confidence: 97%

Improving Patient Discharge Communication

Gouge

2016

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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“…My approach derives from "new materialist" methods elaborated by scholars like Brennan Breed (2014) and Laurie Gries (2015), both of whom highlight material dimensions of texts (what texts do and what is done to them) while downplaying representational dimensions (what texts mean). To access the material dimensions, both Breed and Gries zoom out from the scale of individual texts to larger scales where texts form alliances with other objects, weave in and out of rhetorical formations, and become transformed in the process.…”

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Watching Valuation Coevolve with Production

Leary

2017

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This research note uses interviews and observations of anthology editors to explore how valuation practices shift depending on the stage of anthology construction. In the textual environment described here, editors tended to value texts related to their own lives during the early stages of construction. Later on in the process, editors sought texts related to the texts they had already gathered. In this later stage, editors performed "constant comparison," scanning texts for concepts related to concepts identified in previously acquired texts. The research note also describes the complex relationship between editors' valuation and writers' production. Valuation trends became known to writers, who then shifted their production practices, which became known to editors, who then shifted their editorial practices, which became known to writers, and so on. The note concludes with speculative commentary on implications for other fields such as art collecting.

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“…We have recently paid significant disciplinary attention to virality, the way ideas and images get picked up and spread rapidly across the Internet-see, for instance, Laurie Gries's (2015) analysis of the Obama Hope image and Ben Wetherbee's (2015) reconceptualization of topoi as memes. The rise of virality has the potential to make public attention seem fickle, but scholarship such as Gries's and Wetherbee's suggests that rhetoricians are uniquely poised to understand the conditions that contribute to the spread of viral communication.…”

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"If this stuff matters, why isn't it being shared?" : citations, hyperlinks, and potential public futures of online writing in rhetoric and composition.

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DEDICATIONTo the seventeen generous writers and editors who let me poke their writing, pick their brains, and eke a dissertation out of it.iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Without Mary P. Sheridan's unflagging confidence that I would emerge victorious, with interesting findings, from the methodological mess of this project, I would doubtless have put much of it aside long ago. If this dissertation at any point seems to evidence internal coherence or an argument for its disciplinary stakes, know that you have seen Mary P.'s hand. Thanks, too, to the rest of my committee: Bronwyn Williams's healthy skepticism pushed me to rethink assumptions; Brenda Brueggemann's fiery candor mentored me through my middle years in Louisville; Carolyn R. Miller's meticulous attention to terms helped me work past many a conflation; and Olfa Nasraoui's guidance at the head of this project gave it shape. Without my writing group, and their patience and enthusiasm and support, this dissertation would have moldered in the anxious recesses of my mind-so deep thanks to those four brilliant women, each of whom I am sure will soon make me proud to say, "I knew her when": Rachel Gramer, Megan Faver Hartline, Keri Mathis, and Laura Tetreault. Their emotional support, alongside support from good friends including Jamila Kareem, helped me see light not just at the end of the tunnel but right there in the middle of it.My motley crew of parental figures and other family members has led the cheer from the left coast: Thanks to my dad, Brandt, whose successful dissertating when I was in grade school inspired me to one day submit myself to similar madness (and whose knowledgeable advice along the way proved invaluable). Thanks to my mom, Cyndi, who taught me early that brilliant, career-driven, and family-oriented were not exclusive categories. And thanks to my stepmom, Patti; stepsister, Camryn; and my parents-in-law, Kathy and Steve, all four of whom have championed and helped me believe in my potential for success. Yet no one has been more my champion than my brother, Etienne, whose daily phone calls ground me when I am otherwise floundering and whose devotion to his own dreams inspires conviction.And I could never adequately thank my husband, Sterling, who has let me drag him north and east and deep into the south, following my academic dreams. Who said, "I'll stay up with you," through nearly every night of writing or revising. Who said, "Talk me through it," any time I complained of feeling stuck. Whose love and stability and humor and intelligence have been the defining features of home through four dwellings, in three states, over nearly a decade. This dissertation addresses two deceptively discrete questions: (1) how academics might reach wider public audiences, and (2) how and why people cite the way they do. It takes citation practices as a telling though often tacit practice, one through which it is possible trace the contours of a larger story about how writing is changing as it moves online. That story: Writers increasingly reflect goals of provoca...

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Still Life with Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics

Cited by 32 publications

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Improving Patient Discharge Communication

Improving Patient Discharge Communication

Watching Valuation Coevolve with Production

"If this stuff matters, why isn't it being shared?" : citations, hyperlinks, and potential public futures of online writing in rhetoric and composition.

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