Articles & Chapters
A select list of articles and book chapters by CMS/W faculty, researchers, and students.
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Supporting Technical Professionals’ Metacognitive Development in Technical Communication through Contrasting Rhetorical Problem Solving
An experimental pedagogical framework that focuses on increasing the explicit “rhetorical consciousness” of professionals who are already immersed in multiple genres of workplace communication but are not confident in the effectiveness of their communication skills
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Loss, Mourning, and Climate Change
What might mourning loss due to climate change reveal about the deeper relationship between human and non-human life in the environment?
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Rhetorical Patterns in Citations Across Disciplines and Levels of Participation
The analysis of large corpora has provided great insights about the formal characteristics of citations, but little information about their rhetorical nature.
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New report: Transformative Media Organizing in LGBTQ/Two-Spirit Communities
Associate Prof. Sasha Costanza-Chock, Civic Media’s Rahul Bhargava, and recent CMS grads Heather Craig and Yu Wang help author this “Out for Change” report.
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Tom Levenson on science, religion, and the Thirty Meter Telescope
“The dispute over the Thirty Meter Telescope has been framed as the latest skirmish in the long-running campaign pitting science against religion. That’s a mistake.”
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NGO2.0 and Social Media Praxis: Activist as Researcher
The emergence of a particular brand of ICT activism that promotes the use of social media as a means of helping Chinese NGOs break out of their communication bottleneck.
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Book review: “Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space,” by Lynn Sherr
“Lynn Sherr has provided the next best thing: a biography of America’s first woman in space that is riveting, beautifully written and rich in detail.”
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When sands sing and rocks ring — and when they escape the ear
“It may seem odd to learn about sound by silently reading nearly 300 pages of text, but Cox’s breezy and amusing prose helps you share his experience as he searches for the sonic wonders of the world.”
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John Roberts and the Color of Money
“This is one more step toward securing governance of, for, and by rich people and their well-compensated servants.”
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Why Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Is So Scary
Regardless of how much time clean you have, relapsing is always as easy as moving your hand to your mouth.
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Seeing and Experiencing Relativity — A New Tool for Teaching?
A paper about relativity and “riding a beam of light,” as explored through the MIT Game Lab game “A Slower Speed of Light”.
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Words with Friends: Writing Collaboratively Online
Here we discuss the means by which, after a good deal of trial and error, we found effective procedures for our collaboration.
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Whitepaper: “Annotation Studio: Bringing a Time-Honored Learning Practice into the Digital Age”
Annotation Studio integrates a powerful set of textual interpretation tools behind an interface that makes using those tools intuitive for undergraduates and their instructors.
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Visible Men: Creative Writing in a Massachusetts Prison
“Together, they excavate a home, a reference point, a goodness that was sown, a point at which they lost the way.”
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There Should Be Grandeur: Basic Science in the Shadow of the Sequester
“[T]he sequester wreaks its havoc by striking hardest at particular points in the life cycle of a university researcher.”
