heuristic James Porter (1998) defined rhetorical heuristics as “guidelines or strategies useful to ethical decision making in [particular] situations” (p. 18). I designed a heuristic because, unlike a taxonomy, it acts as a loose framework that imparts direction while steering clear of unyielding rules (Selber, 2004). Rather than focusing on any one aspect of a name, the heuristic below (Table 5) encourages a deeper consideration of a name’s historical, pedagogical, metaphorical, pragmatic, economic, social, cultural, political, and material dimensions in conjunction. Table 5: Heuristic for Choosing Names for Wireless Places Dedicated to Writing Instruction
[1] At Michigan State, for example, the labels “microcomputer lab,” “computer lab,” and “technology classroom” are important distinctions that determine which departments have priority when scheduling class meetings within these places (Grabill). [2] As my data suggests, multiple names for the same settings are not uncommon and will likely continue to flourish. Circulating unofficial names via programmatic websites, newsletters, and so on, is one tactic for supplanting established names. [3] The powerless, as categorized by Iris Marion Young (1990), are those “over whom power is exercised without their exercising it; [those] situated so that they must take orders and rarely have the right to give them…The powerless have little or no work autonomy, exercise little creativity or judgment in their work, have no technical expertise or authority, express themselves awkwardly, especially in public or bureaucratic settings, and do not command respect” (pp. 56-57). By distinguishing between forms of oppression, as Sullivan and Porter (1997) advocated, one may avoid sliding “into the fallacy of calling all institutional actions oppressive, or all uses of the computer” (p. 120). [4] Architecture and interior design Jump back to conclusions.
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