and pragmatic features of discourse in contexts of change. I'll be posting
excerpts along the way....
Here is a link to my first book , Community
action & organizational change: Image, narrative, identity. The book is about narrative and
organizational change. It blends first hand (narrative) accounts of social change projects with theories of structure, agency, and identity.
If you are interested in language and change, community action, creative nonfiction, and if you'd like to learn more about writers like Foucault, Giddens, and Bourdieu, you'll find it enjoyable and useful.
| Since Community action, I've been working
at a more micro textual level, examining the discursive properties of
change discourse. Discourse & regulation is a new chapter I've
written for an upcoming book edited by Mark Zachry and Charlotte Thralls. It reports on a study of the discourse used to implement a new software package at a university. "Creating rhetorical stability" looks at texts that assert corporate universities should play a greater role in higher education. This study was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. As part of that project, I examined the emergence of the corporate university and its role in higher education. Two book chapters, (Corporate; Technical) co-authored with Johndan Johnson-Eilola emerged from that study. This work is more topical and theoretical than discursive. "Assessing technical communication programs" also came out of the corporate university study. This paper (co-authored with Linn Bekins and Bill Karis) applies value-added concepts of assessment to academic programs. Two more critical pieces examine the Open Source software movement and the rise of proprietary knowledge systems in universities. The second (knowledge) article is in draft form. Here are links to a few other articles I've written. I've just put the abstracts here. If you'd like the article let me know(faber*clarkson.edu) and I'll send you a reprint (or you can go to the journal itself). |
Discourse & regulation Creating rhetorical stability in corporate university discourse Corporate universities & new professionals Technical communication & corporate universities Assessing technical communication programs: lessons from Corporate Universities Resisting the proprietary university Knowledge politics What's professional about professional communication? GenEthics: Ethics and generational conflict in workplace training Ethics and Intuition |