6:1: We Need to Talk
Up one levelA small collection of articles about topics too-seldom discussed in our field, but which deserve closer examination.
- An Articulation of a Fragmented Discipline: A Postmodern Conception of Formalism and Rhetoric in Professional Communication
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Tim Hicks
If a single course is to be an effective representation of the discipline it should hope to include rhetoric, critical thinking, formalism, service learning, and civic rhetoric to, depending on how effectively so much can be managed within a semester. - Do These Serifs Make Me Look Phat? Conveying Personality with Typeface
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Amy Striker
Explores some possible approaches to understanding typeface “personality,” including empirical research and scholarly discussion, in the hopes of generating more discussion about how we can understand and use typeface personality when creating organizational identity packages. - Toward a More Productive Discussion about Instrumental Discourse
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Quinn Warnick
This article traces the ongoing debate surrounding instrumental discourse in technical communication scholarship and identifies steps that scholars should take to increase the efficacy of this debate.