Dr. Harrington’s Blog

Stuart Selber is a professor of technical communication at Penn State University.  This piece was published in CCC, like several others we’ve read.  Selber writes, then, in a formal voice, and his vocabulary is often quite sophisticated.  But his aim is clear: he wants us to consider how functional literacy—an emphasis on doing interesting things […]

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I’m struck by this quotation in the 1982 Person of the Year article: ” As both the Apple Computer advertisement and the Las Vegas circus indicate, the enduring American love affairs with the automobile and the television set are now being transformed into a giddy passion for the personal computer.” […]

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I’m rather charmed by the subject line and personalization of Mr. Wordpress, so I’ll leave this post here.
I’m usually a take-notes-in-the-margins reader, so I’m curious how this will all pan out…but searchable notes seem like a cool thing to have.

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