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Understanding How Algorithms Work Persuasively Through The Procedural Enthymeme, Kevin Brock, Dawn Shepherd
Understanding How Algorithms Work Persuasively Through The Procedural Enthymeme, Kevin Brock, Dawn Shepherd
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
Procedure, when discussed in regards to rhetoric, and to “digital rhetoric” in particular, is framed overwhelmingly in regards to game play (and to video games most frequently). We argue that this view needs to be expanded if scholars of rhetoric are to realize how complex human-computer rhetor systems function in diverse contexts. Such systems do so through procedural enthymemes, which persuade audience agents to action through the apparent logic of a given system. Procedural persuasion occurs most often via strategies that facilitate the agent to assume an active role in “self-persuasion” in order to complete a given enthymeme. In …
The Ethics Of Plain Language: A Technical Communicator's Perspective, Russell Willerton
The Ethics Of Plain Language: A Technical Communicator's Perspective, Russell Willerton
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
I appreciate the opportunity to write to lawyers about the ethics of plain language from a technical-communication perspective. I am a professor of technical communication and, formerly, a full-time technical writer. In this article, I’ll view the ethics of plain language through the lens of the literature on ethics in the field of technical communication.
Cummings, Abbott And Costello: How "Who's On First?" Can Help Students Understand "Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town", Jeff Westover
Cummings, Abbott And Costello: How "Who's On First?" Can Help Students Understand "Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town", Jeff Westover
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
Listening to Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s On First? ” can provide a helpful introduction to E.E. Cummings’s special use of pronouns in “anyone lived in a pretty how town.” Like Cummings, Abbott and Costello convert pronouns, other parts of speech, or short phrases into proper nouns. After students wrestle with this context in relation to the poem, they will be ready to think about other contexts, such as the legacy of Emersonian individualism or the Romantic idea of the child’s closeness to God. Finally, the role of gender in the love story is also worth exploring, and the romance between …
Virginia Woolf And Illness, Cheryl Hindrichs
Virginia Woolf And Illness, Cheryl Hindrichs
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
On Being Ill. “Is that a user’s guide?” This question, or a clever variation on it, became a familiar refrain when the elegant Paris Press edition’s cover, conspicuously abandoned on my bed table, caught the eye of one of the many nurses or phlebotomists who rotated through my ward over four weeks—weeks coinciding with what should have been my rereading of Woolf’s 1926 On Being Ill (OBI) as well as the impressive range of essays which you may now also read at your leisure in the second section of this double issue of the Miscellany, whether “in the army …
From One Human To The Next: How Stories Might Save Our Lives, Stacie Lewton Rice
From One Human To The Next: How Stories Might Save Our Lives, Stacie Lewton Rice
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
On the morning of October 1, 2015, a young man walked into a college writing classroom with a gun and killed nine people, injured many others, then shot himself.
Health Conditions Of Post-Resettlement African Refugees In Boise, Idaho, Mikal Smith, Pamela Springer, Terri Soelberg, Pat Lazare, Michal Temkin-Martinez
Health Conditions Of Post-Resettlement African Refugees In Boise, Idaho, Mikal Smith, Pamela Springer, Terri Soelberg, Pat Lazare, Michal Temkin-Martinez
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
This study describes the health conditions of African refugees in Boise, Idaho obtained through self-report interviews and medical chart review. Comparisons between self-report data and data obtained through the medical chart review are described. This paper also describes the challenges and successes of collecting health data from African refugees in a health fair setting, the use of interpreters and DVDs with participants who speak seven different languages, and collaborative research with different African refugee groups utilizing community based participatory research. Findings include descriptive statistics related to the health conditions of the population. Comparison of the self-report and medical chart review …
Training African Refugee Interpreters For Health Related Research, Terri Soelberg, Michal Temkin-Martínez, Mikal Smith, Pamela Springer
Training African Refugee Interpreters For Health Related Research, Terri Soelberg, Michal Temkin-Martínez, Mikal Smith, Pamela Springer
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
This paper describes an approach to training African refugee interpreters for their role in health-related research. A study was proposed to evaluate the self-reported health of African Refugees in Boise, Idaho. Collaboration with a community advisory board revealed that targeted communities had members who spoke at least one of five main languages, many of whom had limited access to formal education. Interpreters were recruited from the refugee communities, and had either worked for and/or received training through one of two local hospitals. Few of the interpreters had experience serving in that role in the context of a research study. A …
Reading The 'Book Of Nature': Emerson, The Hunterian Museum And Transatlantic Science, Samantha C. Harvey
Reading The 'Book Of Nature': Emerson, The Hunterian Museum And Transatlantic Science, Samantha C. Harvey
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
Since the study of Romanticism is generally divided into European, British and American tracks, transatlantic connections are often obscured, resulting in what Richard Gravil calls 'the existence of a lost continent of literary exchange that our artificially divided academic community has . yet to recognize and explore' .1 This 'lost continent' is now being charted with a host of new critical approaches, including the emerging subfield of 'transatlantic ecologies' that attempts to investigate, in the words of Kevin Hutchings and John Miller, 'the key ways in which Western environmental discourses and associated literary practices .were forged in the crucible …