October 2008
20 posts
Vita
Curriculum Vitae
Publication Abstracts
“Agency, Invention, and Sympatric Design Platforms,” Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, ACM: 2007.
This project investigates the problems associated with course software platforms from the perspective of user-centered design, examining student agency and invention specifically in environments like WebCT, Wikis, and MS SharePoint 3.0. I argue for...
Dissertation Research
Un/Commonplaces: Redirecting Research and Curricula in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Committee:
Dr. Helen Foster, Director, Rhetoric and Writing Studies Program
Dr. Carlos Salinas, Rhetoric and Writing Studies Program
Dr. Robert Nachtmann, Dean, College of Business Administration
Dissertation Abstract:
Un/Commonplaces is guided by a broad and fundamental question of inquiry regarding...
Teaching Philosophy
Pedagogical Approaches
What (some) Students Have To Say
“He made the material engaging and he explained it in such a way that didn’t make us all feel like idiots. I learned so much, which sometimes in other courses doesn’t happen very much. Thanks! =)”
Sophomore Workplace Writing and Organizational Communication Student
“I learned more that I expected. This has been one of the most enjoyable classes I have taken,...
Curriculum Design and Consulting
Strategic Redesign and Implementation of UTEP Workplace Writing Curriculum
In the fall of 2007, I redesigned and piloted comprehensive curricular changes to our program’s extant Workplace Writing curriculum based upon three core competencies:
The inclusion of disciplinary content and theories of rhetoric and professional communication that address Spinuzzi’s (2006) contention that...
Developing the Undergraduate Major in Rhetoric and...
A Recruiting White Paper for Academic Programs
Selected Conference Presentations
Imploding the (Inter) Text
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: media digital)
Please view full screen by clicking the easel in the lower right corner!
Theorizing Recursion: A Multi-disciplinary Approach
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: writing heuristics)
Agency, Invention, and Sympatric Design Platforms
View SlideShare presentation...
Some (Helpful) Links
To share research and ideas about things like knowledge work, knowledge and content management, rhetorical theory, visual rhetorics, social media, professional and technical communication, writing studies, and the like, please consider joining me on Twitter.
While I sometimes exchange comments on the vagaries of life with others on this site, I use Twitter primarily as a powerful, dynamic, and...
About this Site
This is the homepage of Brian J. McNely, doctoral candidate, researcher, and Assistant Director of the Rhetoric and Writing Studies Program at the University of Texas at El Paso. This site highlights my research, teaching, and academic consulting experience; for permissions or more information about any of the ideas or media found on this site, please do not hesitate to contact me at...