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Humanizing Visual Design

The Rhetoric of Human Forms in Practical Communication

By: Charles Kostelnick

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Humanizing Visual Design

The Rhetoric of Human Forms in Practical Communication

By: Charles Kostelnick

This book analyzes the role that human forms play in visualizing practical information and in making that information understandable, accessible, inviting, and meaningful to readers—in short, "humanizing" it. Although human figures have long been deployed in practical communication, their uses in this context have received little systematic analysis. Drawing on rhetorical theory, art history, design studies, and historical and contemporary examples, the book explores the many rhetorical purposes that human forms play in functional pictures, including empowering readers, narrating processes, invoking social and cultural identities, fostering pathos appeals, and visualizing data. The book is aimed at scholars, teachers, and practitioners in business, technical, and professional communication as well as an interdisciplinary audience in rhetoric, art and design, journalism, engineering, marketing, science, and history.

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1351628232

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9781351628235

Teaching Intercultural Rhetoric and Technical Communication

Theories, Curriculum, Pedagogies and Practice

By: Barry Thatcher,Kirk St. Amant,Charles Sides

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Teaching Intercultural Rhetoric and Technical Communication

Theories, Curriculum, Pedagogies and Practice

By: Barry Thatcher,Kirk St. Amant,Charles Sides

In today's integrated global economy, technical communicators often collaborate in international production teams, work with experts in overseas subject matter, or coordinate documentation for the international release of products. Working effectively in such situations requires technical communicators to acquire a specialized knowledge of culture and communication. This book provides readers with the information needed to integrate aspects of intercultural communication into different educational settings.

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1351841386

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Envisioning Collaboration

Group Verbal-visual Composing in a System of Creativity

By: Geoffrey Cross,Charles Sides

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Envisioning Collaboration

Group Verbal-visual Composing in a System of Creativity

By: Geoffrey Cross,Charles Sides

The dissemination of desktop publishing and web authoring software has allowed nearly everyone in industrialized countries to combine verbal and visual symbols into text. Serious multimodal projects often demand extensive teamwork, especially in the workplace. But how can collaboration engaging such different traditions of expression be conducted effectively? To address this question, Envisioning Collaboration traces the composing processes of expert graphic artists and writers preparing advertising campaigns to retain a vital national account. It examines the influences on individual and dyadic composing processes of what Csikszentmihalyi terms "the domain," in this case the disciplinary knowledge of advertising, and "the field," in this case the surrounding economic conditions and client, vendor, customer, and agency executive gatekeepers. Based on a 460-hour participant-observation and intensive computerized data analysis, Envisioning Collaboration is the first book to meticulously examine collaborative creative processes at an award-winning advertising agency, including audience analysis, branding, collaborative "moves," power and conflict management, uses of humor, degree of mindfulness, and effectiveness. The findings indicate the role of concepts in generating common texts by artists and writers, the role of the visual in individuals' composing, verbal-visual rhetorical elements in processes and products, and which verbal-visual techniques were most generative. Findings are related to pertinent research in technical and business writing, rhetoric and composition, and some key research in visual design, communication, advertising, neurolinguistics, management, and psychology. The book concludes with a pedagogical/training unit incorporating "gateway activities" for effective verbal-visual composition and collaboration.

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1351867989

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9781351867986

Culture, Communication and Cyberspace

Rethinking Technical Communication for International Online Environments

By: Kirk St. Amant,Filipp Sapienza,Charles Sides

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Culture, Communication and Cyberspace

Rethinking Technical Communication for International Online Environments

By: Kirk St. Amant,Filipp Sapienza,Charles Sides

The increasingly global nature of the World Wide Web presents new challenges and opportunities for technical communicators who must develop content for clients or colleagues from other cultures and in other nations. As international online access grows, technical communicators will encounter a range of challenges related to culture and communication in cyberspace. These challenges include how to design content and develop services for online distribution to a culturally diverse audience of users; how to address cultural and linguistic factors effectively when collaborating with international colleagues and clients via online media; and how to develop effective online teaching and training practices and materials for use in learning environments comprised of culturally diverse groups of students. The contributors to Culture, Communication and Cyberspace examine these challenges through chapters that explore the different aspects of international online communication. The contributing authors use a range of methodologies to review a variety of topics related to culture and communication in cyberspace. In so doing, the authors also examine how business trends, such as international outsourcing, content management, and the use of open source software (OSS), are affecting and could change practices in the field of technical communication as related to online cross-cultural interactions.

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Routledge

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1351845101

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Handbook of Technical Writing, Tenth Edition

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

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Handbook of Technical Writing, Tenth Edition

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

Combining guidance for writing over 40 typers of professional documents with thorough coverage of grammar, usage, and style, the Handbook of Technical Writing functions as both a writer's handbook and a complete guide to technical communication. It provides quick access to hundreds of topics and scores of sample documents and visuals. [publisher's note]

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Macmillan

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1250004411

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9781250004413

Handbook of Technical Writing, Ninth Edition

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

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Handbook of Technical Writing, Ninth Edition

By: Gerald J. Alred,Charles T. Brusaw,Walter E. Oliu

This comprehensive resource, organized alphabetically by topic, provides guidance on the business and technical writing process, real world examples, in-depth treatment of grammar and usage and up-to-date coverage of the latest office technology.

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Macmillan

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0312575122

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Humanizing Visual Design

The Rhetoric of Human Forms in Practical Communication

By: Charles Kostelnick

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The Rhetoric of Human Forms in Practical Communication

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Envisioning Collaboration

Group Verbal-visual Composing in a System of Creativity

By: Geoffrey Cross,Charles Sides

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Group Verbal-visual Composing in a System of Creativity

By: Geoffrey Cross,Charles Sides

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The Complete Books of Charles Fort

By: Charles Fort

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The Complete Books of Charles Fort

By: Charles Fort

Book of the Damned, Lo!, Wild Talents, New Lands. Greatest compilation of data: flying saucers, strange disappearances, inexplicable data not recognized by science. Painstakingly documented.

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Courier Corporation

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0486230945

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9780486230948

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE & OPI

By: Charles 1804-1870 Grey

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SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE & OPI

By: Charles 1804-1870 Grey

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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446

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Wentworth Press

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1371006970

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9781371006976

The Life and Times of Charles Follen McKim

By: Charles Moore

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The Life and Times of Charles Follen McKim

By: Charles Moore

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Sagwan Press

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137700211X

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Book's by Charles Kostelnick

Humanizing Visual Design

Humanizing Visual Design

Teaching Intercultural Rhetoric and Technical Communication

Teaching Intercultural Rhetoric and Technical Communication

Envisioning Collaboration

Envisioning Collaboration

Culture, Communication and Cyberspace

Culture, Communication and Cyberspace

Handbook of Technical Writing, Tenth Edition

Handbook of Technical Writing, Tenth Edition

Handbook of Technical Writing, Ninth Edition

Handbook of Technical Writing, Ninth Edition

Humanizing Visual Design

Humanizing Visual Design

Envisioning Collaboration

Envisioning Collaboration

The Complete Books of Charles Fort

The Complete Books of Charles Fort

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE & OPI

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE & OPI

The Life and Times of Charles Follen McKim

The Life and Times of Charles Follen McKim

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