The Rhetorical Ecology of the Technical Effect

Truscello, Michael

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“…For example, Applen (2001) examined knowledge management and XML authorship to communicate meaningful information in particular ways through metadata, as well as the data it describes, for particular audiences. Truscello (2005) called attention to the liminality of software through what he called the "rhetorical ecology of the technical effect[, which] marks the convergence of everyday life, the materiality of technology, and the web of cultural practices that constitute software" (349). Dyehouse (2007) investigated the role of knowledge content analysis in regards to technological development, specifically how arguments were composed and delivered to nonexpert or nonspecialist audiences as well as how technical communicators could more effectively study such composition and delivery.…”

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Rhetorical Code Studies

Brock¹

2019

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This project, like so many of the cases discussed in the following pages, could not have been possible without myriad collaborators, colleagues, and mentors, all of whom have profoundly impacted my life through their assistance and friendship. I cannot overstate the gratitude I feel for all the time, energy, and consideration that has been shared with me. At the same time, I recognize my words here will be inadequate in acknowledging everyone who has helped me and in describing the impact they have had on me and this book. I want to begin by offering my deepest thanks to Nancy Penrose, who took a chance on me when I was a struggling master's student who felt ambivalent toward writing and its study. At the time, I did not know just how significantly my life would change by turning my focus toward rhetoric and composition. Without Nancy's support and patience with my gaining a grasp of the field, I would never have been able to pursue this career trajectory. I also owe a considerable debt to the faculty with whom I studied in the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media doctoral program at North Carolina State University; their guidance helped me develop the ideas central to my argument throughout this book. David M. Rieder offered invaluable and enthusiastic input throughout my time in the program. Alongside David, Susan Miller-Cochran, Jason Swarts, and Kenneth Zagacki all shared with me their incredible insight and feedback on my dissertation, which served as an early attempt at articulating my argument in this book. In addition, the courses I took with

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Rhetorical Code Studies

Brock¹

2019

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“…opportunities for composing and avenues through which technical communicators may increase their value [1][2][3]. The open source development process typically relies on a decentralized group of programmers who create software that is freely modifiable and redistributable.…”

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The Technical Communicator as Evangelist: Toward Critical and Rhetorical Literacies of Software Documentation

Maher

2011

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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In spite of a critical turn in technical communication research, discussions of software documentation continue to forward a singularly instrumental understanding of how these types of texts are composed and consumed. Using work on multiliteracies, I illustrate how analysis of the competing evangelisms of software that occur in programming culture unveils the ways in which documentation, like code, is ideologically encoded. Attention to the evangelisms of software facilitates critical literacy and, consequently, a richer rhetorical literacy. Such literacies are necessary for composing effective software documentation and identifying how the ideologies of software and its documentation intersect with the nationally-situated cultural values in which these technologies and texts are developed and used. To illustrate this complexity, I offer examples of the intersections between free and open source software evangelisms and the national-as-local contexts of the United States, Brazil, and China.

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“…These advantages have drawn attention from other scholars who later applied the ecological approach in their work. For instance, Truscello (2005) applied the idea of rhetorical ecologies to study the technical effect of digital technologies. The ideas of rhetorical ecologies and public rhetorics were also pursued by Banks (2006) in his study of African American rhetoric and by Rivers and Weber (2011) in their analysis of the Montgomery bus boycotts and its pedagogical implications to the field of composition.…”

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Digital Rhetoric of Cosmopolitanism: A Case Study of Thai Students at Michigan Technological University

Srijongjai¹

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The Rhetorical Ecology of the Technical Effect

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Rhetorical Code Studies

Rhetorical Code Studies

The Technical Communicator as Evangelist: Toward Critical and Rhetorical Literacies of Software Documentation

Digital Rhetoric of Cosmopolitanism: A Case Study of Thai Students at Michigan Technological University

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