Listed below are the assigned course readings plus numerous other readings that are relevant to the course.
Allen, Patrick, John Bateman, and Judy Delin. “Genre and Layout Design in Multimodal Documents: Towards an Empirical Account,” American Association for Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium on Using Layout for the Generation, Analysis, or Retrieval of Documents, Cape Cod, Autumn 1999.
Analore, Andrew, “GM Uses Wiki to Tell its Story. Ragan.com, August 29, 2008.
Berghel,
Hal. “A
Cyberpublishing Manifesto,” Communications
of the ACM, 44 (3), 2001, pp.
17-20.
http://www.berghel.net/publications/c_pub/c_pub.php
Bernstein, Mark. HypertextGardens.
http://www.eastgate.com/garden/
Billinghurst,
Mark., Kato, Hirkazu., and Poupyrev,
Ivan. “The
MagicBook - Moving Seamlessly between
Reality and Virtuality,” Computer
Graphics and Applications, 21(3),
2001, pp. 2-4.
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/Papers/cgaMay2001.pdf
Bush, Vannevar. “As
We May Think,” Atlantic Monthly 176.1
(July), 1945, pp. 101-108. A version
with valuable commentary was reprinted
in the ACM magazine Interactions,
3 (2), March 1996, pp. 35-46. Sections 6-8 are
the key sections in Bush’s
article.
http://web.mit.edu/STS.035/www/PDFs/think.pdf
Cawsey, Alison, Floriana Grasso, and C´ecile Paris. “Adaptive Information for Consumers of Healthcare,” in P. Brusilovsky, A. Kobsa, and W. Nejdl (eds.), The Adaptive Web, Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag 2007, pp. 465–484, 2007.
Chandler,
Daniel. “An
Introduction to Genre Theory,” posted
to the Web on August 7, 1997.
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/intgenre/intgenre.html
Chandler,
Daniel. “Montaigne
and the Word Processor,”posted
on the Web on May 26,1997.
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/montword.html
Clark, Ruth. “Six
Principles of Effective e-Learning:
What Works and Why.” The
eLearning Developers’ Journal, September
10, 2002, pp. 1-8. (A summary of
research by Richard Mayer.)
http://www.elearningguild.com/pdf/2/091002DES-H.pdf
Communications of the ACM. The Adaptive Web, 45:5, (May 2002). Available from the ACM Digital Library at www.acm.org (Brusilovsky, Bental, Billsus, Cheverst, de Bra, and Andre).
Cooke, Lynne. "Information Acceleration and the Evolution of Visual Trends Within a Media Context." Technical Communication Quarterly 12 (2), 2003, pp. 155-181.
Cotton, Bob and Richard Oliver. "Hypermedia Applications: Education" from Understanding Hypermedia, London: Phaidon Press, 1993, pp. 88-89.
De Bra, Paul. “Adaptive Educational Hypermedia on the Web,” Communications of the ACM 45 (1), 2002, pp. 60-61. Available from the ACM Digital Library at www.acm.org. Also see other articles on the Adaptive Web by Brusilovsky, Bental, Billsus, Cheverst, and Andre.
De Bra, Paul. “Adaptive Hypermedia,” in Kinshuk, Sampson, Adelsberger and Pawlowski (Eds.), Handbook on Information Technologies for Education and Training. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2008, pp. 29-46.
Delin, Judy, John Bateman, and Patrick Allen. "A Model of Genre in Document Layout," Information Design Journal 11(1), 2002-3, pp. 54–66.
Ding, Huiling. “Genre analysis of personal statements: Analysis of Moves in Application Essays to Medical and Dental Schools,” English for Specific Purposes, 26 (2007) 368–392.
Erickson, Thomas, “Social Interaction on the Net: Virtual Community as Participatory Genre,” Proceedings of the Thirtieth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 6-10, 1997, Maui, Hawaii.
http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/VC_as_Genre.html
Farkas, David K., “Designing for Selective Reading to Address Information Overload,” in Information Overload: An International Challenge to Professional Communication Practices,” ed. Strother, J. B., Z. Fazal, and J. M. Ulijn, under review by a publisher, 2009.
Farkas, David K. “Managing Three Mediation Effects that Influence PowerPoint Deck Authoring,” Technical Communication, 56 (1), 2009.
Farkas, David K. “A Heuristic for Reasoning about PowerPoint Deck Design," Proceedings of the 2008 International Professional Communication Conference, Montreal, Canada, July 13-16.
Farkas, David K. “Toward a Better Understanding of PowerPoint Deck Design,”IDJ+DD (Information Design Journal + Document Design), 14 (2), 2006, pp. 162-71.
Farkas, David K. "Explicit Structure of Print and On-Screen Documents," Technical Communication Quarterly, 14 (1), 2005, pp. 9-30.
Farkas, David
K. “Understanding
and Using PowerPoint,” Proceedings of
the Society for Technical Communication
52nd Annual Conference,
Seattle, WA, May 8-11, 2005, pp.
313-320.
http://www.stc.org/ConfProceed/2005/PDFs/0066.pdf
Farkas, David K. “Hypertext and Hypermedia,” Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, Berkshire Publishing 2004, pp. 332-336.
Farkas, David K. “Managing Headings in Print and Online Documents,” Proceedings of the 2002 IPCC Conference, Portland, OR, September 17-20.
Farkas, David K. and Farkas, Jean B. “Writing for the Web" (Chapter 10), in Principles of Web Design. Longman, 2002, pp. 220-240.
Farkas, David K. and Farkas, Jean B. “An Introduction to Copyright Law (Appendix B),” in Principles of Web Design. Longman, 2002.
Fisher, Lori. “Moving
from Single Sourcing to Reuse with
XML DITA,” Best Practices (Comtech),
June 2003, pp. 63-68.
http://xml.coverpages.org/DITA-FisherLori.pdf
Gladwell,
Malcolm. "The
Social Life of Paper: Looking for
Method in the Mess," The
New Yorker, March 25, 2002,
pp. 92-96.
http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_03_25_a_paper.htm
Gold, Rich. “Reading PowerPoint,” in Working With Words And Images: New Steps in an Old Dance, Nancy J. Allen (ed). Ablex, 2002.
Graham, S. Scott and Brandon Whalen, “Mode, Medium, and Genre.A Case Study of Decisions in New-Media Design,” Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 22 (1), pp. 65-91.
Harrill, Rob. “Readers
Become Part of the Action through
High-Tech Mixture of Traditional
Storytelling and Virtual Reality
in UW's ‘Magic
Book,’ ” University
of Washington press release, September
12, 2000.
http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=3320
Heller,
Steven. “Tom Suzuki,
76, a Designer Who Transformed Textbooks,
Dies,” New York Times (NYTimes.com),
September,12, 2006.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/books/12suzuki.html?pagewanted=print
Horn, Robert
E. “What
Kinds of Writing Have a Future?” Presentation
at the ACM SigDOC Conference, October
22, 2001.
http://www.stanford.edu/~rhorn/a/recent/spchWhat%20KindsOfWrtng.pdf
Horn, Robert
E. “Knowledge
Mapping for Complex Social Messes,” Presentation
at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation,
July 16, 2001.
http://www.stanford.edu/~rhorn/a/recent/spchKnwldgPACKARD.pdf
(Note: downloads slowly)
Horn, Robert
E. “Structured
Writing as a Paradigm,” in Instructional
Development: State of the Art,
Alexander Romiszowski and Charles
Dills (eds). Englewood Cliffs, N.
J., Educational Technology Publications,
1998.
http://www.stanford.edu/~rhorn/a/topic/stwrtng_infomap/artclStrctrdWrtngPrdigm.pdf
Jackson, Randolph L. and Eileen Fagan. “Collaboration and Learning within Immersive Virtual Reality,” Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments 2000, San Francisco, California. Available from the ACM Digital Library at ACM.org.
Jansen, Carel. “Reflecting on Information Mapping: Does the Method Live Up to the Expectations?” Proceedings of the 2002 IPCC Conference, Portland, OR, September 17-20.
Keep, Christopher, McLaughlin, Tim,
and Parmar, Robin. The
Electronic Labyrinth (written
in 1993 and adapted for the World
Wide Web in November 1995).
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/elab/
Kiernan, Vincent. “Multimedia Data Base at Carnegie Mellon Lets You ‘Interview’ Albert Einstein,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 9, 1998, p. A27.
Klemmer, Scott R., Jamey Graham, Gregory J. Wolff, and James A. Landay. “Books with Voices: Paper Transcripts as a Physical Interface to Oral Histories.” Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2003, pp. 89-96, 2003.
Lee, Moon, J. “Expanding Hypertext: Does It Address Disorientation? Depends on Individuals' Adventurousness.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(3).
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue3/lee.html
Larson, Jerrod, Indicating Impact: The Design of an Environmental Labeling System for Consumer Goods, draft doctoral dissertation, University of Washington, 2009.
Marcus Aaron, “Patterns within Patterns: ”Introduction to Design Patterns,” Interactions, March-April 2004, pp. 39-34.
Marlow, Cameron, Mor Naaman, danah boyd, Marc Davis, “Position Paper, Tagging, Taxonomy, Flickr, Article, ToRead.” Proceedings Hypertext ’06 Conference.
Mayer, Richard E. and Roxana Moreno. "Nine Ways to Reduce Cognitive Load in Multimedia Learning, Educational Psychologist, 38(1), pp. 43-52, 2003.
McCloud,
Scott. “Follow
that Trail” (I Can’t
Stop Thinking #4).
http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/
McCloud,
Scott. “Zot
Online: Hearts and Minds” (Part
#12).
http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/zot/zot-12/zot-12.html
McCloud, Scott. Google Chrome: Behind the Open Source Browser Project. http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html
National Endowment for the Arts, Reading on the Rise: A New Chapter in American Literacy. Washington, DC Undated/2009.
Nelson, Theodor Holm (“Ted”). “Xanadu: Document Interconnection Enabling Re-use with Automatic Author Credit and Royalty Accounting,” Information Services & Use, 14 (1994), pp. 255-265.
Nelson, Theodor Holm (“Ted”). Excerpt from Computer Lib/Dream Machines, from The New Media Reader, ed. Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003.
Nielsen, Jakob. “How Little Do Users Read?” Alertbox, May 6, 2008.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/percent-text-read.html
Nielsen,
Jakob. "Reviving
Advanced Hypertext.” Alertbox,
January 3, 2005.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050103.html
Nielsen, Jakob. “The End of Legacy Media (Newspapers, Magazines, Books, TV Networks).” Alertbox, August 23, 1998.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980823.html
Raban, Jonathan. Excerpt about modular writing from “The Nuclear Threat,” a review of The Atomic Bazaar by William Langewiesche, New York Times, May 20, 2007.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/books/review/Raban-t.html
Ramaswami, Rama. “Best of Both Worlds,” Campus Technology, September 1, 2009, pp. 24-31.
Rockley Group. “Preparing for DITA: What Need to Know,” white paper, Markham, Ontario, Canada, 2005.
Rockley, Ann. “Dynamic Content Management,” Intercom, February 2001, pp. 28-32 and 42.
Schmandt-Besserat, Denise. "Signs of Life". Archaeology Odyssey, Jan-Feb 2002, 6–7, 63.
https://webspace.utexas.edu/dsbay/Docs/SignsofLife.pdf
Schwartz,
Jonathan. “The
Level of Discourse Continues to Slide,” New
York Times online (NYTimes.com),
September 28, 2003.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E2DA133DF93BA1575AC0A9659C8B63
Self, Tony. “What If Readers Can’t Read.” Intercom, February 2009, pp. 10-14.
Snyder, Carolyn. “Online Video: The Book Was Better,” Eye for Design,” July/August, 1998, pp. 8-10.
Thompson,
Clive. “PowerPoint
Makes You Dumb,” New
York Times online (NYTimes.com),
December 14, 2003.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9c00eedf163cf937a25751c1a9659c8b63
Tracey, J. R., D.E. Rugh, and W.S. Starkey. Sequential Thematic Organization of Publications (STOP), Internal report for the Hughes Aircraft Company, 1965, reprinted in the Journal of Computer Documentation, 23 (3), August 1999. Available from the ACM Digital Library at ACM.org.
Tversky, B., J .B. Morrison, & M. Betrancourt. (2002). “Animation: Can it facilitate?” International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 57, pp. 247-262.
Walker, Randall C., Phil Schloss, Charles A. Vogel, Adam S. Gordon, Charles R. Fletcher, and Stan Walker, “Visual-Syntactic Text Formatting: Theoretical Basis and Empirical Evidence for Impact on Human Reading.” Proceedings of the 2007 International Professional Communication Conference, Seattle, Washington, October 1-3. See also the annotated PowerPoint deck WalkerVSTF-IPCC07.
Wei, Carolyn,
Brandon Maust, Jennifer Barrick, Elizabeth
Cuddihy, and Jan Spyridakis. “Wikis for
Supporting Distributed Collaborative
Writing,” Proceedings of
the Society for Technical Communication
52nd Annual Conference,
Seattle, WA, May 8-11, 2005, pp.
204-209.
http://www.mdcn.ca/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=89
Weiss, Edmond, H. “Bits, Atoms, and the Technical Writer: The Rhetoric of STOP, adapted from The Journal of Computer Documentation, 23 (3), 1999, pp. 95-101.
Wikipedia, "Origins of Language."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language
Wikipedia, "Writing Systems."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_systems
Zhou, Quan and David K. Farkas, “QuikScan: Formatting Documents for Better Comprehension and Navigation,” unpublished manuscript under review by Technical Communication, 2009.
Zhou, Quan, QuikScan: Facilitating Document Use Through Innovative Formatting. Dissertation, Department of Technical Communication, University of Washington, 2008.
Zhou, Quan and David K. Farkas. “Design Work on the QuikScan Document Format. Proceedings of the 3rd Information Design International Conference, Curitiba, Brazil. October 8-10, 2007.
Zhou, Quan and D. K. Farkas, “Improving Reading with QuikScan: Introduction and Experimental Validation.” Proceedings of the 2007 International Professional Communication Conference, Seattle, Washington, October 1-3, 2007.
