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The Grid and the Village

Losing Electricity, Finding Community, Surviving Disaster

By: Stephen Doheny-Farina

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The Grid and the Village

Losing Electricity, Finding Community, Surviving Disaster

By: Stephen Doheny-Farina

This book focuses on electric grids and tells the stories about two villages separated by time, connected by proximity, and united by the challenges of maintaining a community under duress. It provides a glimpse of what it took to build the kind of grids that made America, the grids which connect people to one another, and is told through the experiences of some of the people who sacrificed the most to build the grids.

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Yale University Press

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0300133820

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9780300133820

Rhetoric, Innovation, Technology

Case Studies of Technical Communication in Technology Transfers

By: Stephen Doheny-Farina

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Rhetoric, Innovation, Technology

Case Studies of Technical Communication in Technology Transfers

By: Stephen Doheny-Farina

Stephen Doheny-Farina shows that the technical and commercial processes of turning technologies into products are, in significant ways, communication processes. Improving the way that technology is transferred from laboratory to marketplace is central to improving American productivity and competitiveness in a global economy. In this provocative analysis, Stephen Doheny-Farina shows that the technical and commercial processes of turning technologies into products are, in significant ways, communication processes. He explores the key role that technical communicators must play in the movement of technology from expert designers and developers to users. Several lengthy case studies illustrate the rhetorical issues involved in technology transfers as well as the rhetorical barriers to their success. Doheny-Farina argues that processes typically called information transfer and technology transfer are not transfers at all but instead are series of personal constructions and reconstructions of knowledge, expertise, and technologies by the participants attempting to adapt technological innovations for social uses.Underscoring the rhetorical nature of any technology transfer, the case studies describe the powerful effect that a startup company's business plan can have on its future (including the many factors that surround the writing of a business plan), the rhetorical barriers to the transfer of an experimental artificial heart from a university research hospital to a biomedical products manufacturer, and two compelling situations that call for the inclusion of technical writers in new product development from its inception. A final chapter focuses on the important elements in the education of technical communicators and an appendix discusses classroom applications and includes a fictional case incorporating issues of intraorganizational barriers to collaboration in the new product development process.

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312

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MIT Press

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0262041294

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9780262041294

The Wired Neighborhood

By: Stephen Doheny-Farina

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The Wired Neighborhood

By: Stephen Doheny-Farina

Are communication technologies ushering in a wondrous new age of computer networks that connect people into worldwide virtual communities of like-minded individuals? Or are global computer networks isolating us from real relationships and from our society, as we stare into a screen instead of interacting face to face? In this eloquent and thoughtful book, Stephen Doheny-Farina explores the nature of cyberspace and the increasing virtualization of everyday life. He occupies a middle ground between these two extreme views of the net, arguing that electronic neighborhoods should be less important than geophysical neighborhoods in all their integrity, and that we must use the new technologies not to escape from our troubled communities but to reinvigorate them. Doheny-Farina offers a critical perspective on virtual reality and its social impact, showing us how people meet and converse on the net, how they teach and learn, and how they establish workplaces that can accompany them wherever they go. Along the way he reveals the advantages and hazards of making the computer the center of our public and private lives. Doheny-Farina argues that once we begin to divorce ourselves from geographic place and start investing ourselves in virtual communities, we further the dissolution of our real, dying communities. He speaks out in favor of a movement called civic networking, which promotes the proliferation of networks that originate locally to organize community information and culture and to foster pride in and responsibility to our neighborhoods.

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244

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Yale University Press

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0300074344

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9780300074345

John Dewey and the Challenge of Classroom Practice

By: Stephen M. Fishman,Lucille Parkinson McCarthy

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John Dewey and the Challenge of Classroom Practice

By: Stephen M. Fishman,Lucille Parkinson McCarthy

The first systematic exploration of Deweyan pedagogy in an actual classroom since studies of Dewey’s own Laboratory School at the turn of the century! In Part I, using accessible language, Stephen Fishman discusses Dewey’s educational theory in the context of Dewey’s ideology and process philosophy. In Part II, Fishman joins composition specialist Lucille McCarthy to examine his own Introduction to Philosophy class. In doing so, the authors model a collaborative form of practitioner inquiry and bring to life such complex Deweyan concepts as student-curriculum integration, interest and effort, and continuity and interaction.

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274

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Teachers College Press

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0807737267

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9780807737262

Workplace Writing

Beyond the Text

By: Stephen Bremner

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Workplace Writing

Beyond the Text

By: Stephen Bremner

Workplace Writing: Beyond the Text draws together a wealth of research into different aspects of writing in workplace settings, creating a comprehensive picture of workplace writing and covering factors and activities that go far beyond the text. In a full analysis of the challenges facing the student writer transitioning from the academy to the workplace, this book: covers topics ranging from intertextuality and collaborative writing practices to considerations of power and politeness, and the impact of organisational culture and processes of socialisation brings together the multiple, often interlinked factors that surround and impact on the process of workplace writing and the texts produced in professional settings takes a close look at the pedagogical implications of the various issues relating to workplace writing serves as a resource for teachers who want to go beyond potentially simplistic accounts of writing in the workplace and to provide students with a richer picture of what happens there Workplace Writing will be essential reading for any students, pre- and in-service teachers and researchers with an interest in professional and business discourse and language teaching for specific purposes.

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Routledge

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1351599046

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Rhetoric, Innovation, Technology

Case Studies of Technical Communication in Technology Transfers

By: Stephen Doheny-Farina

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Case Studies of Technical Communication in Technology Transfers

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MIT Press

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The Grid and the Village

Losing Electricity, Finding Community, Surviving Disaster

By: Stephen Doheny-Farina

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The Wired Neighborhood

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Book's by Stephen Doheny-Farina

The Grid and the Village

The Grid and the Village

Rhetoric, Innovation, Technology

Rhetoric, Innovation, Technology

The Wired Neighborhood

The Wired Neighborhood

John Dewey and the Challenge of Classroom Practice

John Dewey and the Challenge of Classroom Practice

Workplace Writing

Workplace Writing

Rhetoric, Innovation, Technology

Rhetoric, Innovation, Technology

The Grid and the Village

The Grid and the Village

The Wired Neighborhood

The Wired Neighborhood

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