: "Four Approaches

The four approaches can be summarized as follows: (1) The author is informed by his or her own history, background knowledge, discourse community, and current social context, and these factors influence the resulting text. (2) The reader is informed by his or her own history, background knowledge, and current social context – as well as by the discourse community of which he or she is a member – and this affects the way he or she reads and interprets a written work. (3) The author shapes his or her writing to fit the reading audience based on what he or she knows about the potential readers. (4) The reader’s notion of the author and his or her intentions shapes how the reader interprets the writing."

Re: Writing

Re: Writing: ">If technical writing (and/or on-line documentation) is becoming more

>colloquial in an attempt to be more easily understood, are editors letting

>mistakes slide? Are there types of documentation wherein editors/employers

>would be less likely to worry about mistakes like these?



Linguists know that no language has rules, merely conventions. What we call

'rules' are actually just mutually acceptable things that we've agreed to do

in common. 'Its' vs. 'it's' is only a common distinction, not natural law.



Thus, editors, especially in an era when 'high' (Latinate) English in

documentation is being gradually replaced by 'low,' or vernacular English,

are in a bind. On the one hand, any good editor wants to preserve the

language as a tool. Who wants chaos in letters? On the other hand,

vernacular is much livelier than Latinate English, more prone to shift and

change. A valid and defensible usage this year becomes next year's

stodginess. For example, I've been using contractions in this message, while

several years ago I'd be brought to book for it. (Notice how I've changed

construction in that last sentence. Is it permissible? Well...)

"

Career Guide

Career Guide: "At the other end of the spectrum a lot of software is being localised too. The most famous example is of Microsoft having a Hindi version of Office-2000. This will throw up lot of opportunities to vernacular technical writers. Agrees Guru, ' These people will be one of the hottest things in times to come'."

Career Guide

Career Guide: "What is the relevance of all this to a B-school student? Writing is a skill that goes a long way in helping one achieve success. Many successful people have acknowledged this fact. As part of their work, managers have to prepare a lot of reports, lay down policies and procedures, and prepare proposals and plans. Today technology is overriding and there is hardly a company that is untouched by it. So somewhere along the way their will always be an interface with technology. Hence Technical Writing becomes relevant for them. This has also become more relevant as the medium of information distribution has evolved. Says Guru,' Today the delivery medium is Net-based or through CD-ROMS. The manager has to take full advantage of the benefits offered by these mediums in terms of audio as well as visual aspects of the presentation. So what the manager is doing is performing the role of a technical communicator'. He further emphasises, ' Knowledge Management and Knowledge Distribution are some of the hottest emerging areas. It is a little far away in India. But it will soon descend on us. Management graduates with knowledge of Technical Writing will be hot property'."

Career Guide

Career Guide: "There are no formal channels of entry into this profession through a university degree or certification of any kind. To become a good technical writer one must possess good technical skill as well as communication skills. As Mr. Guru Kamath, a renowned technical writer and founder of Technical Writers of India (TWIN) puts it, ' One should be a good writer with an ability to grasp technology. The people on this profession are from different backgrounds. You have both people who have an arts background and a flair for technology as well as engineers who have a flair for writing'. Other important traits that a technical writer must possess apart from written skills are verbal and presentation skills."

ACCO

ACCO: "Technical Assistance:



Phone: 800.820.6220

(please have the product information available)

Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm Central Time "

Bedford, Freeman, Worth Publishers - Technical Communication

Bedford, Freeman, Worth Publishers - Technical Communication: "Technical Communication

Sixth Edition

Mike Markel (Boise State U.)"

Wired News: Universe: Beige, not Turquoise: "Two Johns Hopkins University astronomers said in January they had averaged all the colors from the light of 200,000 galaxies and concluded that if the human eye could see this combined hue, it would be a sprightly pale green. That, they said, was the color of the universe.

But Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry admitted Thursday that their conclusion was wrong. They had been tripped up by flawed software that was uncovered by color engineers who checked their data.

'It is embarrassing,' Glazebrook said. 'But this is science. We're not like politicians. If we make mistakes, we admit them. That's how science works.'

The effect of the error was that the computer picked a nonstandard white from its electronic palette and mixed it with the other colors to come up with the turquoise. When the error was corrected and replaced with a standard white index, beige was the result, Glazebrook said."

No class on Monday

Hi,
Because you have a rough draft due in class on Wednesday the 21st, I want you to take Monday to meet as a group and take care of business, i.e. make sure everyone is on task and knows what they are writing. Your draft should be 2-4 pages per person.

In addition to meeting with your group, you need to start getting used to working as a team online, or collaborating. To that end, I would like you to do the following:


1. post your working draft to your group page in webct.

2. read and respond to each team member's draft before class on Wednesday. By respond, I mean:

a. look for any obvious problems or gaps
b. ask for definitions of key terms
c. point out where illustrations might be appropriate
d. point out any sentences that sound painful.
e. check if instructions are being provided in a logical sequence with no omissions
f. make the document as visually professional as you can. Start talking as a team about what your document should look like.
g. report on what your class accomplished and upload the resulting memo to your group files. Label it: distance collab. memo

Please contact me with any questions. You are welcome to use the class computers during the class hour. I will check your work Monday evening.

Ethics Memo

Carson Groff


    I used to work for a home security company in Chicago.  It was one of those summer jobs that you can do and make a ton of money.  As a technician, my job was to install the security systems that the salesmen sold.  One of the problems that I faced was that the salesmen would lie all the time.  They would either tell the people that it was going to be a law to have to own a security system so they should get one now, or they would say that the system could do all this fancy stuff that it really could not do.  So when I went to the customer's house to install it, they would ask me questions about things the salesman told them and I was faced with the dilemma of telling the the truth and not getting paid for the install, or going along with the lie and getting paid.

    I talked to the salesmen all the time about not telling the customers false info, but they got more sales with the lies.  The company knew about it too, but they wouldn't do anything either because they got more money too.

   I think the company should have done something to stop it.  It not only makes the company look bad, but people like me don't want to work for them.  I ended up quitting before the summer was out.
 

Im writing a note fo

I’m writing a note for class.  It has no purpose.  

Amazon.com: Books: Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading

Amazon.com: Books: Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading: "Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading (Hardcover)"

Ethical Racing

Memo:

     This article is interesting because it deals with something that we hear a lot about in sports.  Each individual athlete has the right to train harder and eat better than the next.  But in today?s world of athletics athletes are trying to take their ?game? to the next level.  This is another case where and athlete has tired to give him self the advantage by making himself taller in order to  win the sprint                                                                               

  In this case Postorius (the 17 year old runner) was using a prosthetic in a Paralympic game.  The argument was that he was using prosthetic legs that made him unnaturally tall and gave him an unfair advantage.  He has the rights to wear these however it violates the rules that would enable him to race fairly.  This puts a negative view publicly on not only himself but the Paralympic games.  It shows that Postorius like many major league baseball players who are under investigation do not care about their fellow athletes.

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Memo

 

Are you a human experiment? Close to forty years ago approximately 399 black male members of a poor Alabama community were. It was believed that the way the sexually transmitted disease syphilis affected black and white men differed. The researchers (doctors) conducting this study believed that in white men it affected them neurologically while in black men it affected their cardiovascular system.

            These doctors took it upon themselves to conduct this study on these poor men, without informing them just what was happening. These Alabama men were told there was something wrong with their blood and these doctors provided free medical treatment to help fix this problem. Most of these men had never even visited a doctor before and so free treatment to them was a blessing.

            Not once were these human experiments told of the consequences their disease would have and not only consequences on themselves but also on their spouses and children. They never knew that they were not being treated for their illness; they just appreciated the free treatment from a doctor, a doctor who should have been trustworthy.

This study was completely unethical. It completely violates ethical rights. In a community people should have concern for their neighbor, their friends. A doctor takes an oath, he is supposed to save lives, not induce death. These doctors not only lied to their patients, they caused their death and possibly the death of the patient? spouses and children.

Regardless of this medical treatment being free to these men, they still had a right to honest treatment. Every man has the right to have their basic needs met in their community. These doctors were a part of this community and so they too should have cared for their patients, their neighbor. The most unethical part of this study was that the results would not alter any of the treatments for syphilis. After the loss of these lives, the loss of trust in a community and the loss of the trust in a country there was no advance for the treatment of syphilis. The study was therefore futile.

 

           

 

           

Unethical Conduct by Check City

By just paying $25 and canceling a lost check you would assume that you are protected.   However a recent experience that a Draper business man had suggests the opposite.   A check was dropped off at an employees' house and not delivered personally.  The employee then claimed he never received the check.   A new check was written and the old check was cancelled through the bank.  When the worker cashed the original check at check city, the business man was required to pay the check.  

 

Check City should have gone after the worker for the payment of the check that was cashed, not after the business man who had cancelled the check.   They shouldn't have allowed the transaction to go through if the check wasn't valid and since they did it they should pay the price and try to get the money back from the employee who received double pay.   It is not just for Check City to require the business man to pay for the check that was cancelled. He lost money paying for the cancellation of the lost check and then lost the full amount of the check in addition to that.   Check city should right the problem by taking a loss for their mistake or regaining their loss from the unethical employee that cashed both checks.

 

 

David Miller

Ethic Problems

From: Marina Daghouz
To: Mark Crane
English 4310
Sept. 12, 2005

With each passing day every individual is faced with ethical problems
which one must employ his/her personal beliefs and values to answer
and overcome. All too often, in a society driven by the allure of
money, the decisions that are made are not necessarily the best
decisions. Case in point is a former employment situation I was not
particularly fond of; in so much I consider it to be my greatest
ethical dilemma.
Several years ago I was given an opportunity to work for a certain
individual who had been running her own business ventures for a brief
period of time. She needed some additional assistance to enable more
free time on her part as well as overall management of a handful of
these ventures. Unfortunately, I was to learn the hard way concerning
money and business ethics. The specific industry I was to be involved
in was that of network marketing or, less glamorously, pyramid
schemes. Included in these schemes were health food products,
internet-based learning "educational" opportunities and so forth. How
they were to be handled and managed was, both then and now, beyond my
personal code of ethics.
For the internet-based scheme, I was assigned to contact people
personally and convince them to purchase a package of investment and
business oriented material at the fine fee of roughly $2500.00. To
contact these individuals I had to purchase lists of names from
clandestine sources, not accredited or filtered by the Federal Do Not
Call List or any other regulatory firm, and continuously call them via
telephone and persuade them into believing this was a "once in a
lifetime event." Coupled with the calling approach, a man who was
deeply seeped in the industry taught me, at the behest of my boss, how
to "spam" people with multiple emails to thousands of individuals.
Spamming on such a grand scale had been deemed illegal, making it
necessary to go through a middle internet server.
Besides the spamming and illegal phone solicitations, the majority of
people I interviewed and presented my spiel to were generally
under-educated and financially challenged, seeking any get-rich-quick
schemes or impressionable enough to be contacted and convinced of this
necessity. I became Robin Hood in reverse, preying off the
ill-informed poor to the benefit of the wealthy. I was able to
accumulate 3-4 sales on this particular account on any given week.
The techniques and methods I used to accomplish my task were
extremely immoral and unethical. First and foremost, I lied in
multiple ways: pricing, false advertrsing, false product information,
unwilling to inform and filed questions, etc… The elements of
avaricious and greed continues to bring a disheartening feeling, even
presently. Deriving personal information on people and knowing how
this information would be used was also a great dilemma in dealing
with my position.
I had originally been hired and informed my job function would be
that of office manager, simply organizing the office, placing
legitimate phone calls, and keeping accounting records up-to-date.
Had I known the larger extent to which my skills would be used I would
have never dealt with such individuals. Like most ethical cases you
allow yourself to manipulated and gradually eased in with each new
situation. Seldom is it the case that you thrust yourself into a
situation and rob the entire bank, for instance. One must learn to
steal small things, meaningless things to aspire and justify the next
progressive step in the degradation of morals. In retrospect, I
should have recognized these patterns and terminated my employment
immediately; however, no such action was taken on my part, to great
remorse.
The purposeful intention my boss and other close associates of hers
had, in regards to their business practices, been well too much for my
moral and ethical disposition. To resolve matters, I made a sincere
personal pledge to never allow myself to be manipulated in any similar
way to this and to ensure all relations I engage into, whether
business or other, are honest and truthful. I was able to obtain
enough information and paper evidence to turn her, and a group closely
associated to her, into the IRS. There were many other dealings that
I was not directly or even indirectly involved with but, with how I
was used for deceitful purposes, I thought it imperative the business
dealings of these individuals should be brought to the appropriate
light.
If given the chance to repeat my actions I have deep, mixed feelings.
I definitely would would not perform the job and its actions ever
again, ensuring my ethics are upheld. The fact that I was able to put
an end to some very malicious business dealings seemed to have
justified my role, in the grand scope of things. However, I believe
overall that I would not repeat my actions, even if a descent amount
of good was the result. To compromise one's ethics is one of the
greatest ways of wronging one's self.

English 4310

DATE: September 12, 2005

TO: Professor Mark Crane

FROM: Todd Mickelson

SUBJECT: English 4310

I read an article about on November 17, 2003 that American Airlines
allowed a jet to fly that wasn't airworthy, apperantly the airplane had
leaky fuel tank.

Rights: Every passenger has the right to fly on an airplane that is
airworthy and also that the pilots and flight attendents work in an
airplane that is airworthy.

Justice: The passengers pay through their plane tickets to help pay
for the maintenance of the airplane, the company has the duty to keep
their planes in an airworthy status.

Utility: If the company doesn't keep their airplanes in an airworthy
condition then they will like to have a airplane crash, which would
potientaly hurt or even kill their passengers.

Care: Keeping an airplane in unairworthy condition disregards the care
for everyone. and will hurt the relationship that they have with
passengers.

Ethics

From: Dave Linton
To: Mark Crane
September 12, 2005
English 4310

My wife is a third grade teacher in Pleasant Grove.
Last school year was her second year
of teaching. The principal of this particular school
was growing more and more power
hungry. Each teacher was noticing that she was
apparently putting certain teachers on
her chopping block and trying to find anyway of
getting rid of them.

One fifth grade teacher, who somehow got on her bad
list, was fired, or rather,
his "contract was not renewed" because of an apparent
sexual remark he made towards
another teacher. This teacher however was not aware of
any remarks he made that
could have been construed as such. Moreover, the
complaint was not made by the
teacher who was the recipient of the remark, but
rather from a disgruntled student who
told her parents and they in turn told the principal.
With no questions asked he was fired
on the spot.

Naturally any person who actually makes such remarks
should be fired, but at least
some sort of investigation should be conducted to see
if the allegation is correct. The
teacher who was fired was not told who made the
complaint and also did not know who
the other teacher was of whom he supposedly insulted.
(the indentity of the student who
made the initial complaint came out later but the
teacher was not informed who that was
until he had already been fired). He strongly denies
that any situation took place or
remarks were said that could have been misunderstood
to such a severe degree.

He definately had the right to know who was accusing
him and also the right to defend
himself before he gets fired. The principle told him
that this situation would not appear on
his record and would not affect him being able to get
a job at another school. This
happened seven months and he still has not been able
to find a job. All the other
teachers were on his side and wanted to see him stay
at the school. They all knew he
was innocent of the charges but no one wanted to come
forward because of fear that
they would be next on the principal's chopping block.

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4morals standards

Todd Petersen
Mike Stentzel
Sept. 12, 05
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This is a good one to know. If you write a check and send it out to a
person or a company, and then cancel the check. There is still a chance
that you have to pay for the check you wrote out and you also paid the
25 dollar stop payment process.

memo

Memo: from Ken Senzig
To: mecran01.4310@blogger.com

Due to the unethical activity of Jet blue your personal information has
been given away. In September of 2002, JetBlue Airways secretly gave
the Transportation Security Administration and Torch Concepts (now
doing business as Torch Technologies) the Social Security number, date
of birth, and associated credit histories of many of the 5 million
passengers in the JetBlue database. Some of this information,
including SSNs, was posted by Torch Concepts to the Internet. The
document was freely available for download on the Internet for over six
months and was taken down on the 17th of September, 2003. This
sensitive travel data was then turned-over to a private security
contractor for analysis, the results of which were presented at a
security conference earlier this year and then posted on the Internet.
Let’s look at the rights of the individuals to be secure in private
information. This information could be damaging if it fell into the
wrong hands. This violated the welfare of the individual.
Utility is concerned with the effects on the public and this info can
have a harmful effect on individuals
Care is the relationship we have to other individuals and this creates
a negative relationship with Jet blue
I have traveled JetBlue from phoenix to John Wayne airport so I have
better watch my credit info.

ethical problem

from: Aric Hawkins

To: Mark Crane

English 4310

Sept. 12, 2005 

 

The ethical problem i have encountered that i choose to discuss is one dealing with the UVSC parking enforcement. I recently recieved a parking pass on a car i just bought and it was not yet titled in my name. I asked a friend what i could do to get out of paying the ticket he told me to write a fake name and address for the car. Another friend told me to ignore the ticket and hope it ges away because the parking people couldnt run a licence plate number and track me down.

     As I sat and thought about what i could do to get the ticket dismissed a large range of questions bombarded my mind. i thought about my right as a student being able to drive my car to school and having a few days inwhich i had time to find my classes and figure where the best place to park would be so i could minimize the time i wasted walking to my classes.

      Another thought that came to mind was that it is not fair to students that have not had time to get a parking pass get ticketed within the first week of school. Most of the conversations i heard in the halls were that of the parking enforcement lack of care that it is the first week of school. I can understand if it was in January after half of the school year has gone by.

      If the parking enforcement people are going to give out tickets on the first week of school they should at least post something around the whole school rather than just in the office area. some students do all of their registration stuff on line and forget to go to the one stop service desk in the administration building to get that taken care of.

     After sorting through all my thoughts and advice I decided to go ask the parking people what i should do because i just purchased my car. They (for once) were friendly enough to tell me that i could go to the Utah State Tax Commission and get a form stating that i registered my car and had to change the title after the school year started.

 

 

Aric Hawkins

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Moral Memo

One issue I deal with at work constantly relates to dealing with
customers. I work as a piano mover for a piano retail store. Many
times a piano may be damaged or have a defect or may even be a gray
market piano and the customer does not know. I am asked usually by the
saleperson or owner of the company to either ommit information or just
lie about the situation.
On the side of Rights, I think of my right to refuse to lie and
risk being reprimanded or disliked by my co-workers or supervisors.
On the justice side, the salesperson should be the one to disclose
the proper information regarding the piano to the customer. Also the
problem should be resolved in a just way. for example, if the piano is
damaged the company should pay to have it fixed or replaced.
at a Utility aspect, I look at the idea of the cost that the
company saves in leaving the customer with a defective piano as long as
the customer doesn't know. but the company also needs to realized the
moral standards they are imposing on their employees, and also the
effects their actions are going to have on a cusomer if they do find
out they have been lied to. also they may loose the customers trust.
as far as care is concerned, the salespeople especially, try to
say what the customer wants to here just to close the sale, when in
reality they only care about themselves and making money, even if this
means covering up their mistakes. I have a resposibility to myself and
my family to do what is right and being asked to lie to a customer
imposes on my rights.
I'm sure this is the same in many sales situations and is a
dilemma for many people.

Ethic Problems

From: Ryan Buelo
To: Class
9-12-05

There is a current problem at work that deals with nepotism. The unfair
favoring of a family member at the work place. A new policy needs to be set
in place so that raises and promotions are due to work done and not who you
are related to.

The rights of the employees demand that this stop and is fixed so that
family members are not promoted over more deserving employees. an

another aspect of this problem is the justice of this would be to fire those
members of family that don't complete the tasks necessary so that some more
deserving receives that job. justice demands that employees are promoted
fairly and through a rating system that rates everyone fairly.

it is necessary that the company hire family members because of the
difficulty in finding worthy employees. the family members know what they
are doing and deserve a job.
The problem is that family members care about one another and help each
other along. this isn't a bad thing care is important in the work place but
if it interferes with the promotion of worthy candidates it is unfair and
unjust.

Ryan Buelo

ethics in work

From: Chris Near
To: Mark Crane
English 4310
September 12, 2005

A situation that comes up commonly in the workforce is whether or not
to hire illegal immigrants. It is against state laws to do so, but
still many companies do it. This event is very common in construction
because companies can hire the immigrants to work for cheap with few if
any benefits.

State wide enforcement of this law is fairly relaxed at this time. Most
employers, if they want to, can get away with hiring illegal immigrants
with no visible consequences. The dillema then becomes one of rights,
justice, race, and ethics.

Many legal immigrants complain that employers should not higher illegal
immigrants because they are taking the jobs of the legal citizens who
feel that it is their right to have those jobs. Giving jobs to illegal
immigrants also causes racial tensions to rise even more. Look at the
wall of any urinal on a construction job sight and you are bound to see
how the white workers view their dark skinned, illegal immigrant
counterparts.

This issue also deals with the relationship between justice and
economics. Employers can argue that they are not at fault, but that in
fact it is the consumer that demands they higher cheaper labor in order
to keep costs low. If only legal citizens are hired then higher wages
are demanded along with insurance benefits. This caused the employer to
raise his prices which can lead to less work for him.

In the end it has become a tangled web with no clear answer in sight.

Chris Near
email: 10256178@uvlink.uvsc.edu

unethical practice

Jeff Baumann
baumannjeff@hotmail.com

Checker auto is the first company that comes to mind when it comes to
dealings with the company i work for. i work for a general contractor out of
salt lake. checker auto had our company and several others bid to remodel
several stores. they then gathered all the bids and instead of awarding the
bid to one of the companies they took the oweest sub contractor form each
bid and called them directly to have them come do the job. so they made the
generals get all the bids and do all the work and then bypassed them saying
they where the general contractors. i would say that this practice falls
under the area of justice. they have made it so that they save the expense
fo gathering subs and putting timetables together and shifted the cost on to
the generals who they had no intention of using to do the work only to put
information together at no cost.

Center for Studies of Ethics - Case Studies: "Case Prepared by Jerry, a Graphic Arts student



I was asked by my boss to prepare some government reports about how we dispose of waste products--specifically, how we discard paper and the used oil from our presses. I was told that we recycled our paper and that we had the oil picked up by a truck. I knew that wasn't true. The boss doesn't like to discuss anything, especially something like that. I did some asking around and found out that we used to do proper disposal, but it cost $714 to have the truck come and get the oil and grease, and that the person responsible before I got the job had decided it wasn't worth it because we had to pay the inspector $220 to come out and look at what we did, so he was taking the oil to the dump himself. I decided that I should ask the boss about it. It was an awful meeting. He told me that it was my responsibility to get rid of it, and I could either take it myself or take the money out of my salary. I knew that his decision wasn't a good decision, but I didn't want to lose my job. I decided to talk about it in one of our ethics discussions at College. The class was divided on whether I should blow the whistle on the boss; if I should haul the waste myself; or if I should fill out the papers as I had been told. After a lot of thought, I decided to haul it to a recycle place myself. It only took one Saturday morning every four months or so, but I think it isn't part of my responsibility. The company is still in business, which is the most good for the most people, and I am thinking right now that is the best decision. At least the oil is getting to the right place, and I do have my job. Before this class I probably would have just lied on the report. In a two page argument answer the following questions:



1. What are the ethical responsibilities of the company? What harms are being caused by the company?

2. What are the ethical responsibilities of Jerry's boss? What harms are being caused by Jerry's boss?

3. What are Jerry's ethical responsibilities?

4. Jerry selects a utilitarian argument with this case. Explain how this is an appropriate or inappropriate ethics justification."

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Assistant Professor Position in Interactive Media Studies

The English Department at Clemson University invites applications for an
assistant professor position in Interactive Media Studies. Candidates with
research and teaching experience that involves the use of interactive media
in multiple contexts including e-learning and the use of serious games in
learning are especially encouraged to apply. Desirable candidates should
also exhibit interest and experience with interactive narratives and their
relation to computer game studies; the rhetorics of multi-user writing and
collaboration environments; digital literacy, theory and practice and their
relationships to the construction and experience of virtual worlds.
Candidates are expected to develop research and teaching agendas
commensurate with active scholars who situate their work in a broad network
of scholars with international presence. The candidate will be expected to
teach at the undergraduate level, in the MA Professional Communications
(MAPC) program, and in the new Ph.D. in Rhetorics, Communication, and
Information Design (RCID) program. The candidate is expected to collaborate
with both faculty and students in the programs. Teaching load: two courses
per semester.

Applications will be accepted from 15 September 2005 until 15 November
2005, or until the position is filled. Candidates must submit a letter of
application, CV, professional portfolio (papers, articles, e-projects on
DVD and Web, etc.), and at least three letters of recommendation to:

Victor Vitanza
Chair, RCID Search Committee
711 Strode Tower
Clemson, SC 29634

For Friday, September 9th:

Please read pages 1-52 in our text and prepare for a "surprise" quiz.

Sufjan Stevens: Illinois: Pitchfork Review: "Stevens has a remarkable habit of being rousing and distressing at the same time, prodding disparate emotional centers until it's unclear whether it's best to grab your party shoes or a box of tissues. The gut-punching 'Chicago' cagily celebrates the innate (and deeply American) tendency to employ highways as escape routes, ditching old mistakes for new swatches of land, new plates of eggs, new parking lots. Impossibly propulsive, each calm, harmonized, Illinoisemaker cry of 'All things go!' pushes harder, promising liberation, by death or by automobile: 'If I was crying/ In the van with my friend/ It was for freedom/ From myself and from the land,' Stevens chokes, voice shaking over a haze of drums, strings, and shimmering keyboards."

On July 29th, 2005, nine years after starting the graduate program at the University of Louisville, I finished my degree and defended my dissertation. I am $50k in debt, had four children during that time, and lived in four homes and two states. Three members of my committee left the program, and I learned more about academic politics than I ever wanted to know.

Using the New UV Link Email System

All UVSC students now have an email address in the new UV Link system. Because most of you have multiple email accounts (UVSC Groupwise, WebCT, UV Link, and at least one personal account), some clarification probably is in order. Please review the following information, and let me know if you have questions.

You can access this new email account through the UV Link portal by clicking on the Email icon in the upper-right corner of the UV Link main page.

Your address is your student (or Banner) ID number @uvlink.uvsc.edu (so mine, for example, would be 10004785@uvlink.uvsc.edu).

Because this address is highly impersonal, and because you have to log into the UV Link portal to check it, most of you probably will not opt to use it regularly.

It does, however, provide me with a quick and convenient way to email you, both individually and as a class, without having to gather and record students' addresses at the beginning of each semester. I do plan on making periodic use of this feature.
What I would ask you to do, then, is to turn on the Auto Forward feature in your UV Link email account, so that I can send messages to your UV Link address, and you can receive them in whichever email account you actually use.

To turn on Auto Forward:

Log into the UV Link portal
Click on the Email icon
Click on the Options tab
Click on the Auto Forward link
Type your preferred email address in the box
Click OK

I have turned on Auto Forward for my UV Link account. So if you forget the address that I actually use (youraddress@uvsc.edu), you can always contact me by clicking on the linked address next to our course in the My Courses area of the UV Link portal (the same place you go to enter WebCT).