Bøger i Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative serien

Examining acts of making with objects, tools, words, and relationships, Beyond the Makerspace reads making as a kind of rhetoric, or meaning-making work, and argues that acts of making things are rhetorical in the sense that they are culturally situated and that they mark boundaries of what counts as making and who counts as maker.

Shows how learning to write in multiple disciplines leads college students to new levels of competence. This volume draws on an in-depth study of the experiences of University of Michigan undergraduates, using statistical analysis, qualitative analysis, use of corpus linguistics on electronic portfolios and student writing, and case studies.

Illustrates the intricate rhetorical work that multilingual communicators engage in as they translate information for their communities. Blending ethnographic and empirical methods from multiple disciplines, Laura Gonzales provides methodological examples of how linguistic diversity can be studied in practice.

Explores how software code serves as meaningful communication through which software developers construct arguments that are made up of logical procedures and express both implicit and explicit claims as to how a given program operates.