Explicitly teaching five technical genres to English first-language adults in a multi-major technical writing course (open access)

Explicitly teaching five technical genres to English first-language adults in a multi-major technical writing course

In this article, the author reports the effects of explicitly teaching five technical genres to English first-language students enrolled in a multi-major technical writing course. Previous experimental research has demonstrated the efficacy of explicitly teaching academic writing to English first-language adults, but no comparable study on technical writing exists.
Date: 2014
Creator: Boettger, Ryan K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using Corpus-based Instruction to Explore Writing Variation Across the Disciplines: A Case History in a Graduate-level Technical Editing Course (open access)

Using Corpus-based Instruction to Explore Writing Variation Across the Disciplines: A Case History in a Graduate-level Technical Editing Course

This article presents a case history on integrating corpora in a graduate-level technical editing course to teach students about writing variation.
Date: February 28, 2016
Creator: Boettger, Ryan K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teaching STEM undergraduates discipline-specific writing skills: A data-driven learning approach (open access)

Teaching STEM undergraduates discipline-specific writing skills: A data-driven learning approach

Paper presented at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. The research presented was funded by the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education and seeks to improve the quality of technical writing instruction for undergraduate STEM students by creating a data-driven learning approach for teaching STEM students writing patterns specific to their respective disciplines.
Date: 2019-06-15/2019-06-19
Creator: Boettger, Ryan K. & Wulff, Stefanie
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Understanding Yik Yak: Location-Based Sociability and the Communication of Place (open access)

Understanding Yik Yak: Location-Based Sociability and the Communication of Place

This article reports on six months of ethnographic work and interviews performed with 18 Yik Yak users to discuss the spatial and social impacts of locative media.
Date: October 1, 2017
Creator: Frith, Jordan & Saker, Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Locative Media and Sociability: Using Location-Based Social Networks to Coordinate Everyday Life (open access)

Locative Media and Sociability: Using Location-Based Social Networks to Coordinate Everyday Life

This article examines the application in the context of social coordination and sociability using a dataset of original qualitative research within a range of Foursquare users.
Date: September 1, 2018
Creator: Saker, Michael & Frith, Jordan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anonymity, pseudonymity, and the agency of online identity: Examining the social practices of r/Gonewild (open access)

Anonymity, pseudonymity, and the agency of online identity: Examining the social practices of r/Gonewild

This article provides a detailed account of the behaviors enabled through pseudonymous identity construction through a case study of the subreddit r/gonewild.
Date: February 17, 2015
Creator: van der Nagel, Emily & Frith, Jordan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library