Category: All blog entries
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On Steve Krug’s “Don’t Make Me Think”
I once took a class on document design and publication. It was a journalism course that was heavily weighted toward the design of print documents, but I’m finding that many of the principles we learned in that course carry over into Krug’s ideas about web design (and he also notes…
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Hypertext
I’m currently enrolled in English 351: Hypertext. I’ll be using this blog to post responses to readings for that class. I’ll use the tag “eng351″ to mark a post written for this course. English 351: Hypertext is a “workshop using digital technologies to compose complex, multimodal, web-based texts for a…
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Saving Lives
How’s this for a culture that uses technology to vital purpose and engages every day with questions of rhetorical silencing: nursing. In Saving Lives: Why the Media’s Portrayal of Nurses Puts Us all at Risk, Sandy Summers (RN, MSN, MPH) and Harry Jacobs Summers show that, indeed, the media’s portrayal…
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On “All Our Relations”
One book that I had hoped to read for a recent research project–but didn’t because I ran out of time–was Winona LaDuke’s All Our Relations. Luckily, I did have time to do some reading in this text before returning it to the library, and I was stunned at reading of…
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Coming full circle
A few pages into Barbara Monroe’s Crossing the Digital Divide: Race, Writing and Technology in the Classroom, I felt like my readings for English 467 had come full circle. We’re back to defining race, but Monroe uses the term in a new way: “Race, as I use the word in…
Erin Anne Clark 