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I’ve already shared a lot of my thoughts with Louise as the course unwound. A first run of a class is always going to have issues. The content still being in a state of development when the class started, and the subject of the course, made it particularly tricky. The pacing of the project [...]
Filed by Michele Buchanan at March 11th, 2013 under Uncategorized
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This is still very rough : I’m working my way through and smoothing things out I’m including the section titling to ensure the sequencing is obvious. I am not looking forward to having to work in Word. @ face value [working title] I. INTRODUCTION A. lead-in Interpersonal communication is a complex thing. Professor Albert [...]
Filed by Michele Buchanan at March 2nd, 2013 under Uncategorized
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For a multitude of reasons I decided to propose a different topic for my thesis. Oh, about 3 days ago. Yeah. Comparatively speaking it pulled together surprising quickly. Louise was typically involved and extremely helpful — finger’s crossed that it gets the green light. ………………………… here it is ……………………………. Text as a vehicle of communication [...]
Filed by Michele Buchanan at February 20th, 2013 under Uncategorized
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Filed by Michele Buchanan at February 20th, 2013 under Uncategorized
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…………… thesis statement 1.0 ………………….. Cognitive changes brought about by our exposure to the internet are affecting the way we consume information. Defining the dominant changes that currently act as barriers to engaging with written material is vital to ‘diagnosing’ the typical reader. By aligning this information with similar cognitive conditions, specific strategies can be formulated [...]
Filed by Michele Buchanan at February 16th, 2013 under Uncategorized
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I always felt my library skills were lacking, so this was a great opportunity to reach out, get some hand-holding, and get the hang of it. I didn’t start off asking a librarian, I started off looking on to see how far I could get. I got absolutely nowhere. Not through the library, not through [...]
Filed by Michele Buchanan at February 16th, 2013 under Uncategorized
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! I want to focus on magazine design, but not just the fluff stuff. Journals and trade publications also technically could be considered magazines as well. I There are also any number of magazines that are a hybrid of materials, frivolous and extremely serious. I need help to define exactly what the umbrella term for [...]
Filed by Michele Buchanan at February 1st, 2013 under Uncategorized
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Here is the synopsis for this particular presentation that will be taking place at the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference. Next step is to dig into this presenter’s personal site and get more intel. fyi – the ‘last mile’ — The “last mile” or “last kilometer” is a phrase used by the telecommunications [...]
Filed by Michele Buchanan at January 22nd, 2013 under Uncategorized
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So I’m mulling my topic, and it suddenly strikes me that what I’m really pursuing is content design – because design can take place on or in any space. Yeah, content design, that has a nice ring to it… wait a minute let’s just type that into Google. Bingo, lots and lots of hits to [...]
Filed by Michele Buchanan at January 18th, 2013 under cognition, content design, page design, reading, the internet, Uncategorized
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. a funny thing happened on the way to writing about mapping… I started off blogging on mapping and 45 minutes later I had this. . Let’s start with the the first sentence that introduces this chapter being able to read effectively and efficiently Now that is exactly where my topic is heading, how [...]
Filed by Michele Buchanan at January 15th, 2013 under Uncategorized
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