Rhetorically rethinking usability
Subtitle: theories, practices, and methodologies
By: edited by Susan K. Miller-Cochran, Rochelle L. Rodrigo.
Contributors: Miller-Cochran, Susan K.; Rodrigo, Rochelle L.
Series: New dimensions in computers and composition
Publisher: Hampton Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cresskill, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781572738409; 9781572738416
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Data processing; English language -- Composition and exercises -- Data processing; English language -- Rhetoric -- Computer-assisted instruction; Human-computer interaction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: developing connections among rhetoric, usability, and writing / Susan K. Miller-Cochran & Rochelle L. Rodrigo. Emerging connections to usability studies. Reflections on human- computer interaction perspectives on word-processing issues / Patricia Sullivan; title: Reflections on the politics of the interface: power and its exercise in electronic contact zones / Cynthia L. Selfe and Richard J. Selfe, Jr.; title: The politics of the interface: power and its exercise in electronic contact zones / Cynthia L. Selfe and Richard J. Selfe, Jr.; title: Reflections on light green doesn't mean hydrology! / Clay Spinuzzi; title: Redefining users and usability. The rhetoric of human-computer interaction / Thomas Skeen; title: Educational usability in online writing courses / Rochelle Rodrigo & Lisa Cahill; title: Beyond the universal: the universe of users approach to user centered design / Jennifer L. Bowie; title: Rhetorical applications of usability. Disability, usability, universal design / Jay Dolmage; title: Usability testing in the writing classroom: testing across a continuum of instrumentality / Jason Swarts & Shaun Slattery; title: Usability: methodology and design practice for writing processes and pedagogies / Douglas Eyman; title: Bibliographic entries and usability: teaching citation of electronic sources / Colleen A. Reilly.