Whitmore/Stevenson: Strategies for Engineering Communication 1 of 8 Collaborative Inventing Strategies  Discussion  Brainstorming  Research

Whitmore/Stevenson: Strategies for Engineering Communication 2 of 8 Taking Research Notes Taylor, S.O. (1978) “Women in a Double Bind: Hazards of the Argumentative Edge”, CCC (29), pp Position Paper: Theoretical & Anecdotal. College Women. Key Point – Women caught in a double bind: Raised to be conciliatory, but told to write argumentatively. OK article, but based too much on Robin Lakoff and doesn’t provide enough info about the nature of the discourse community. Also tends to over-generalize. “Women students, when they take composition courses, are at an invisible, though real disadvantage, because both the methods and the goals of such classes are alien to them. This fact is unacknowledged or perhaps is unrecognized by the instructor” (Over) Taylor, S.O. (1978) “Women in a Double Bind: Hazards of the Argumentative Edge”, CCC (29), pp Position Paper: Theoretical & Anecdotal. College Women. Key Point – Women caught in a double bind: Raised to be conciliatory, but told to write argumentatively. OK article, but based too much on Robin Lakoff and doesn’t provide enough info about the nature of the discourse community. Also tends to over-generalize. “Women students, when they take composition courses, are at an invisible, though real disadvantage, because both the methods and the goals of such classes are alien to them. This fact is unacknowledged or perhaps is unrecognized by the instructor” (Over)

Whitmore/Stevenson: Strategies for Engineering Communication 3 of 8 Database Searches Concept 1AndConcept 2AndConcept 3NotExclude Electric Cars Or Electric AutosBatteriesStorage Or Database search strategy sheet

Whitmore/Stevenson: Strategies for Engineering Communication 4 of 8 Database Searches Database Search Results  Electric Cars28  Electric Automobiles139  Automobiles Electric91  1 or 2 or 3232  4 and batteries47  5 and storage25

Whitmore/Stevenson: Strategies for Engineering Communication 5 of 8 Database Searches Some common databases  Wilson Applied Science and Technology Index cites every article of at least one column published in more than 390 periodicals.  INSPEC contains abstracts and indexing from thousands of journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, and dissertations, covering all aspects of physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computers, and information technology.  ABI/Inform indexes articles on business conditions in the United States and other countries, covering all management disciplines and specific products, companies, and industries.  Humanities and Social Sciences Index indexes articles from more than 350 periodicals covering about 30 fields, including economics, international relations, law, planning and public administration, policy sciences, public welfare, and urban studies.

Whitmore/Stevenson: Strategies for Engineering Communication 6 of 8 Research on the Web

Whitmore/Stevenson: Strategies for Engineering Communication 7 of 8 Research on the Web

Whitmore/Stevenson: Strategies for Engineering Communication 8 of 8 Research on the Web Key questions for assessing websites  Is the source appropriate?  Is the site current?  Is the site authoritative?  Is the site objective?  Is quality controlled?