Technical Communication Reading List

Now that I've secured approval for my technical communication theory & research reading list, I thought I'd post it. Yeah, I know the formatting's not great; I used the OpenOffice html editor, since there was no way I was going to hand-code all that. Behold, my summer:


Berkenkotter, Carol, and
Thomas N. Huckin. Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Communication.
Erlbaum, 1995.

Bizzell, Patricia.
“Feminist Methods of Research in the History of Rhetoric: What
Difference Do They Make?” Feminism and Composition: A
Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Gesa E. Kirsch, Faye Spencer Maor,
Lance Massey, Lee Nickoson-Massey, and Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau.
Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 2003.

Charney, Davida.
“Empiricism is Not a Four-Letter Word.” College
Composition and Communication 47.4 (1996): 567-593.

Creswell, John W.
Research Design: Qualitative & Quantitative Approaches.
2nd Edition. Sage, 2003.

Denzin, Norman K. and
Yvonna S. Lincoln. Eds. Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998.

Flynn, Elizabeth.
“Composing as a Woman.” Feminism and Composition: A
Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Gesa E. Kirsch, Faye Spencer Maor,
Lance Massey, Lee Nickoson-Massey, and Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau.
Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 2003.

Foss, Sonja K.
Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice. 2^nd
edition. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1989.

Freedman, Aviva, and
Peter Medway. Eds. Genre and the New Rhetoric. Taylor and
Francis, 1994. 67–78.

Fowler, Jr., Floyd J.
Survey Research Methods. 3rd edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications, 2002.

Gurak, Laura, and Mary
M. Lay. Eds. Research in Technical Communication.
Westport,
CT: Praeger, 2002.

Hart, Roderick P. Modern
Rhetorical Criticism. HarperCollins, 1990.

Lay, Mary. "The
Computer Culture, Gender, and Nonacademic Writing: An
Interdisciplinary Critique." Nonacademic Writing: Social
Theory and Technology. Ed. Ann Hill Duin and

Craig Hansen.
Erlbaum Publishers, 1996. 57-80.

---. "The Value of
Gender Studies to Professional Communication Research." Special
Issue on

Research in Professional
Communication. Ed. Elizabeth Tebeaux and M. Jimmie

Killingsworth. Journal
of Business and Technical Communication 8.1 (January

1994): 58-90.

---. "Gender
Studies: Implications for the Professional Communication Classroom."

Professional
Communication: The Social Perspective. Ed. Charlotte Thralls and

Nancy Blyler. Newbury
Park, CA: Sage, 1993. 215-29.

---. "Interpersonal
Conflict in Collaborative Writing: What We Can Learn from Gender

Studies." Journal
of Business and Technical Communication 3.2 (Sept 1989): 5-

28.

Longo, Bernadette.
Spurious Coin: A History of Science, Management, and Technical
Writing. SUNY Press, 2000.

Lunsford, Andrea.
“Rhetoric, Feminism, and the Politics of Textual Ownership.”

Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Gesa E.
Kirsch, Faye Spencer Maor, Lance Massey, Lee Nickoson-Massey, and
Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 2003.

Miller, Carolyn. “A
Humanistic Rationale for Technical Writing.” College
English 40 (Feb. 1979): 610–617.

---. "Genre as
Social Action." Quarterly Journal of Speech 70 (May
1984): 151–167.

---. "Learning
from History: World War II and the Culture of High Technology."
Journal of Business and Technical Communication 12: 3 (1998):
288–315.

MacNealy, Mary Sue.
Strategies for Empirical Research in Writing. Boston:
Allyn
and Bacon, 1999.

Naples, Nancy. Feminism
and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, and Activist Research.
New York: Routledge, 2003.

Neuendorf, Kimberly A.
The Content Analysis Guidebook. Thousand Oaks:
Sage
Publications, 2002.

Ritchie, Joy S.
“Confronting the 'Essential' Problem: Reconnecting Feminist
Theory and Pedagogy.” Feminism and Composition: A Critical
Sourcebook. Eds. Gesa E. Kirsch, Faye Spencer Maor, Lance Massey,
Lee Nickoson-Massey, and Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau. Boston, MA:
Bedford/St. Martins, 2003.

Selfe, Cynthia, and
Richard J. Selfe, Jr. “Writing as Democratic Social Action in a
Technological

World: Politicizing
and Inhabiting Virtual Landscapes.” Nonacademic Writing:

Social Theory and
Technology. Eds. Ann Hill Duin and Craig Hansen. Mahwah,

NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates, 1996.

---. Technology and
Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The Importance

of Paying Attention.
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1999.

Spinuzzi, Clay I.
Designing for Lifeworlds: Genre and Activity in
Information
Systems Design and Evaluation. Iowa State University Press,
1999.
PDF document. http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~spinuzzi/.

Sullivan, Patricia.

“Feminism and Methodology in Composition Studies.”
Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Gesa E.
Kirsch, Faye Spencer Maor, Lance Massey, Lee Nickoson-Massey, and
Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 2003.

Tebeaux, Elizabeth. “The
Voices of English Women Technical Writers, 1641-1700: Imprints in the
Evolution of Modern English Prose Style.”

Winsor, Dorothy. Writing
Like an Engineer. Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996.

Wood, Linda A. and Rolf
O. Kroger. Doing Discourse Analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications, Inc., 2000.