This visual page for my Technical Writing classes explains and demonstrates how to use document design to build a visual hierarchy in technical documents.
Category: Personal Journal
Returning to the Blog!
Hello again. I guess I’ve been gone a while. Like nearly 2 years! How did that happen? Let’s not think about it. It’s hard to get back to a long-fallow project like this. I keep thinking that my first post…
It’s Okay to Use AI
I was just thinking about the “Run the dishwasher twice” advice this early morning. I take it to also mean “It’s okay to run the dishwasher twice” when you just don’t have the energy to unload the 1/2 pile of…
Ethical Scenario: “The Cake is a Lie”
Sometimes when you area very tired, you ask ChatGPT to do silly things. Like maybe you’ll say this to it: Write an ethical scenario for college students to discuss. Focus on the statement “The cake is a lie.” And then…
ChatGPT Revises “The Children Are the Future”
I asked ChatGPT to “Rewrite the song The Children Are the Future from the perspective of someone who is certain that the children are mini-demons.” The results are spectacular satire. (Title) Dark Future: Mini-Demons Unleashed (Verse 1) Whispers in the…
Finding Sources for My Community Action Assignments Project
Covers of six books on Community Writing I’ve felt a bit scattered as I’ve searched for sources for the project. Writing up the theoretical, pedagogical underpinnings is not my forte. I always feel a bit lost as I try to…
Community Action Assignments Project, #2
Cover page of the ATTW 2022 Conference Program. More things to record and think about for the collection I mentioned in my previous post. I described the advice I gathered from the works-in-progress session during the ATTW Conference in my…
Community Action Assignments Project, #1
Image Credit: Rally to Prevent Gun Violence by Maryland GovPics on Flickr, used under a CC-BY 2.0 license. I am gathering notes for a collection I want to write on community action projects, focusing on assignments and classroom activities. I…
Memes and Protest Posters
How do the current political posters (say like at the women’s march) compare to political protest posters from another time period (let’s say the 60s)? I’m wondering if the rhetoric and content of image-based memes is influencing the phrasing and…
CWPA 2016 Presentations
“Using the WPA Outcomes Statement to Support Innovation in Meeting Discourse Outcomes for a General Education Curriculum.” Sheraton Hotel, Raleigh, NC. 15 July 2016. [gdoc link=”https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TCxsGL5MvS31MPHSnszr_pfk6ES3BlWN6XMObWb8BMQ/edit?usp=sharing” height=”800″] “Toward a Programmatic Assessment Model for Multimodal Projects.” Sheraton Hotel, Raleigh, NC.…