Works Cited
This page includes the citations for the resources used in this portfolio and the accompanying MAPC Defense. These works were selected on behalf of program administators as those deserving students' attention during the graduate curriculum, and they make up the MAPC Oral Exam Reading List. In addition to these required readings, several secondary sources were used to develop this portfolio; these are also cited. Please note: This list does not include the citations for the individual projects featured in this portfolio. Those citations are available for view within the individual projects.
Rhetorical Theory
Aristotle. On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse. Trans. George A. Kennedy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 25-51, 172-214.
Bitzer, Lloyd F. “The Rhetorical Situation.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 1.1 (1968): 1-14.
Bizzell, Patricia. “Foundationalism and Anti-Foundationalism in Composition Studies.” PRE/TEXT 7.1-2 (1986): 37-56.
Burke, Kenneth. “From Language as Symbolic Action.” The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. Ed. Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001. 1340-1347.
Foucault, Michel. “The Discourse on Language.” The Archeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language. Trans. A.M. Sheridan Smith. NY: Pantheon, 1972.
215-237.
Gorgias. “On the Nonexistent or on Nature.” The Older Sophists: A Complete Translation by Several Hands of the Fragments in Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker.
Ed. Rosamond Kent Sprague. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1972. Indianapolis: Hacket Publishing Co.: 2001. B3, 42-46.
Ijsseling, Samuel. Rhetoric and Philosophy in Conflict: An Historical Survey. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976. 1-25.
Katz, Steven. “The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust.” College English 54.3 (1992): 255-75.
Miller, Carolyn. “What’s Practical about Technical Writing?” Technical Writing: Theory and Practice. Ed. Bertie E. Fearing and W. Keats Sparrow. New York: MLA,
1989. 14-26.
Plato. “Phaedrus.” The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. Ed. Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s,
2001. 138-168.
Poulakos, John. “Toward a Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 16.1 (1983): 35-48.
Protagoras. “The Art of Debating.” The Older Sophists: A Complete Translation by Several Hands of the Fragments in Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. Ed.
Rosamond Kent Sprague. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1972. Indianapolis: Hacket Publishing Co.: 2001. B6b, 21.
——, “On the Gods.” The Older Sophists: A Complete Translation by Several Hands of the Fragments in Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. Ed. Rosamond Kent
Sprague. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1972. Indianapolis: Hacket Publishing Co.: 2001. B4, 20.
——, “Truth and Refutations.” The Older Sophists: A Complete Translation by Several Hands of the Fragments in Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. Ed. Rosamond
Kent Sprague. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1972. Indianapolis: Hacket Publishing Co.: 2001. B1, 18.
Empirical Research
Berkenkotter, Carol. “Analyzing Everyday Texts in Organizational Settings.” Research Methods in Technical Communication. Ed. M. Lay and L. Gurak. Westport, CT:
Praeger, 2002. 47-66.
Charney, Davida. “Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research.” Research Methods in Technical Communication. Ed. M. Lay and L. Gurak. Westport, CT:
Praeger, 2002. 111-130.
Flower, Linda, J.R. Hayes, and H. Swartz. “Revising Functional Documents: The Scenario Principle.” New Essays in Technical and Scientific Communication:
Research, Theory, Practice. Ed. Paul. V. Anderson, R. John Brockmann, and Carolyn R. Miller. Farmingdale, NY: Baywood, 1983. 41-58.
Goubil-Gambrell. “Practitioner’s Guide to Research Methods.” Technical Communication. 39.4 (1992): 582-591.
Katz, Susan. “Ethnographic Research.” Research Methods in Technical Communication. Ed. M. Lay and L. Gurak. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. 23-46.
Lauer, Janice and J. William Asher. “Measurement.” Composition Research: Empirical Designs. New York: Oxford University Press. 1988. 129-151.
Murphy, Daniel. “Surveys and Questionnaires.” Research Methods in Technical Communication. Ed. M. Lay and L. Gurak. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. 93-110.
Information Design
Garrett, Jesse James. “User Experience and Why It Matters.” The Elements of User Experience Design. Indianapolis: New Riders, 2003. 6-19.
——, “Meet the Elements.” The Elements of User Experience Design. Indianapolis: New Riders, 2003. 20-36.
Krug, Steve. Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. Berkley, CA: New Riders, 2000. 2-95.
Mazur, Beth. “Information Design in Motion.” Content and Complexity: Information Design in Technical Communication. Ed. Michael Albers and Beth Mazur.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003. 15-38.
Norman, Donald. “Prologue” and “Attractive Things Work Better.” Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things. New York: Basic Books, 2004. 3-33.
Redish, Janice. “People, People, People.” Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content That Works. Burlington, MA: Morgan Kauffman/Elsevier, 2007. 11-28.
——, “Starting Well: Home Page.” Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content That Works. Burlington, MA: Morgan Kauffman/Elsevier, 2007. 29-51.
Shedroff, Nathan. Experience Design 1. Indianapolis: New Riders, 2001. 1-5, 34-49, 134-217.
International Communication
Barnum, Carol and Li Huilin. “Chinese and American Technical Communication: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Differences.” Technical Communication. 53.2
(2006): 143-166.
Fursich, Elfriede and Melissa Robins. “Africa.com: The Self-Representation of Sub-Saharan Nations on the World Wide Web.” Critical Studies in Media
Communication. 19.2 (2002): 190-211.
Globalization: Winners and Losers. Journeyman Pictures, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, and ABC Australia, 2002. [Video available in the Clemson University
Library.]
Maitra, Kaushiki and Dixie Goswami. “Responses of American Readers to Visual Aspects of a Mid-Sized Japanese Company’s Annual Report: A Case Study.” IEEE
Transactions on Professional Communication 38.4 (1995): 197-203.
Perkins, Jane. “Communicating in a Global, Multicultural Corporation: Other Metaphors and Strategies.” Exploring the Rhetoric of International Professional
Communication: An Agenda for Teachers and Researchers. Ed. Carl R. Lovitt and Dixie Goswami. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 1999.
17-37.
Spyridakis, J.H., H. Holmback and S.K. Shubert. “Measuring the Translatability of Simplified English in Procedural Documents.” IEEE Transactions on Professional
Communication 40.1 (1997): 4-12.
Starke-Meyerring, Doreen. "Meeting the Challenges of Globalization: A Framework for Global Literacies in Professional Communication Programs." Journal of
Business and Technical Communication 19 (2005): 468-499.
Visual Communication
Barton, Ben F. and Marthalee S. Barton. “Ideology and the Map: Toward a Postmodern Visual Design Practice.” Professional Communication: The Social
Perspective. Ed. Nancy Roundy Blyler and Charlotte Thralls. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1993. 49-78.
Blair, J. Anthony. “The Possibility and Actuality of Visual Arguments.” Argumentation & Advocacy 33.1 (1996): 23-39.
Fagerjord, Anders. “Multimodal Polyphony: Analysis of a Flash Documentary.” Multimodal Composition. Ed. Andrew Morrison. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2008.
George, Diana. “From Analysis to Design: Visual Communication in the Teaching of Writing.” College Composition and Communication 52.1 (2002): 11-39.
Kress, Gunther and Theo van Leeuwen. “Meaning of Composition.” Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge, 2006.
175-214.
Mackiewicz, Jo. “How to Use Five Letterforms to Gauge a Typeface’s Personality: A Research-Driven Method.” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
35.3 (2005): 291-315.
Seward-Barry, Ann Marie. “Perception and Visual Common Sense.” Visual Intelligence: Perception, Image, and Manipulation in Visual Communication. Albany, NY:
SUNY Press, 1997. 15-68.
Tufte, Edward. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 2001. 91-121.
Tufte, Edward. Visual Explanations. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1997. 27-54.
Workplace Communication
Cheney, George. “The Rhetoric of Identification and the Study of Organizational Communication.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 69 (1983): 143-158.
Deetz, Stanley. “Conceptual Foundations.” The New Handbook of Organizational Communication: Advances in Theory, Research, and Methods. Ed. Fredric M.
Jablin and Linda L. Putnam. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2001. 3-46.
Doheny-Farina, Stephen. “From Design to Use: The Roles of Communication Specialists on Product Design Teams.” Rhetoric, Innovation, and Technology.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992. 165-215.
Hackos, Joann. Managing Your Documentation Projects. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994. 7-74.
Spinuzzi Clay and Mark Zachry. “Genre Ecologies: An Open-System Approach to Understanding and Constructing Documentation.” ACM Journal of Computer
Documentation 24.3 (2000): 169-181.
Thompson, Isabelle and Joyce Rothschild. “Stories of Three Editors: A Qualitative Study of Editing in the Workplace.” Journal of Business and Technical
Communication 9.2 (1995): 139-169.
Tretheway, Angela. “Disciplined Bodies: Women's Embodied Identities at Work,” Organization Studies 20.33 (1999): 423-450.
Winsor, Dorothy. “Engineering Writing/Writing Engineering.” College Composition and Communication 41.1 (1990): 58-70.
Additional Readings
Buxton, Bill. Sketching User Experiences. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kauffman/Elsevier, 2007.
Costello, Vic. “Time-Based Editing.” Multimedia Foundations: Core Concepts for Digital Design. (2012): 383-413.
Fish, S. "Rhetoric." Doing What comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literacy and Legal Studies. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1999. 471-502.
Lauer, Janice and J. Asher. “Sampling and Surveys.” Composition Research: Empirical Designs. New York: Oxford University Press. 1988. 54-81.