Readings
Course readings are available to enrolled students by accessing the Department of English's Digital Reserve Readings.
Online readings and resources
Andrea Boudin's collection of rhetoric and tech comm annotations
Career center information on job search materials
Choosing a Good Chart
Color Matters
Color Systems
Color Theory Chart
Communication Planning 1
Communication Planning 2
C.R.A.P.
Did you Know? (Convergence)
Ethics in political writing - an example text
Gantt Charts
Haas - "Making Online Spaces More Native to American Indians"
Interface Hall of Shame
Instructions for assembling a drying rack - an example text
Interactive Guide to Blog Typography
Life After Death by Powerpoint
Microsoft apologizes for gaffe in online ad
Nail Gun Lawsuits
Responsibility Matrix
Sample resumes
Sent Mail: Does your outbox reveal how productive you are?
Storyboarding for websites
Storyboarding the Disney Way
Typeface and LeBron James: original open letter to fans from Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert
Typeface and LeBron James: Background information
Typeface and LeBron James: NPR interview with the creator of Comic Sans. (Scroll down and click play on the audio player.)
Typeface and LeBron James: this McSweeneys page demonstrates how excited people get about typeface.
Usability Basics (read all four tabs)
Usability Testing - 7 mistakes
Usability Testing - Nielsen
Visible Rhetoric--Broken Signs
Web design - Steve Krug
Whirl
XKCD - A Webcomic of Romance, Sarcasm, Math, and Language (Sometimes contains strong language)
Career center information on job search materials
Choosing a Good Chart
Color Matters
Color Systems
Color Theory Chart
Communication Planning 1
Communication Planning 2
C.R.A.P.
Did you Know? (Convergence)
Ethics in political writing - an example text
Gantt Charts
Haas - "Making Online Spaces More Native to American Indians"
Interface Hall of Shame
Instructions for assembling a drying rack - an example text
Interactive Guide to Blog Typography
Life After Death by Powerpoint
Microsoft apologizes for gaffe in online ad
Nail Gun Lawsuits
Responsibility Matrix
Sample resumes
Sent Mail: Does your outbox reveal how productive you are?
Storyboarding for websites
Storyboarding the Disney Way
Typeface and LeBron James: original open letter to fans from Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert
Typeface and LeBron James: Background information
Typeface and LeBron James: NPR interview with the creator of Comic Sans. (Scroll down and click play on the audio player.)
Typeface and LeBron James: this McSweeneys page demonstrates how excited people get about typeface.
Usability Basics (read all four tabs)
Usability Testing - 7 mistakes
Usability Testing - Nielsen
Visible Rhetoric--Broken Signs
Web design - Steve Krug
Whirl
XKCD - A Webcomic of Romance, Sarcasm, Math, and Language (Sometimes contains strong language)
Style Resources
We will use both APA and IEEE style in this class. Here are some additional resources that might be helpful. These resources include some citation machines; it's fine with me if you use them, but do so critcially as they may be out-of-date, they may be using alternative versions, or they may be just plain wrong in some respects. I include them there, though, because they are useful despite these flaws.
Chicago Style - The IEEE Style Manual tells users to revert to Chicago Style for anything the IEEE Manual doesn't cover.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Style Manual - This is the definitive source on IEEE Style.
Murdoch U's IEEE Style page
University of Queensland's IEEE Guide
BookRags Citation Generator
Chicago Style - The IEEE Style Manual tells users to revert to Chicago Style for anything the IEEE Manual doesn't cover.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Style Manual - This is the definitive source on IEEE Style.
Murdoch U's IEEE Style page
University of Queensland's IEEE Guide
BookRags Citation Generator