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Peer reviewedSpinuzzi, Clay – Computers and Composition, 2001
Examines metaphor's limitations as a visual-rhetorical framework for designing, evaluating, and critiquing user interfaces. Outlines an alternate framework for visual rhetoric, that of genre ecologies, and discusses how it avoids some of the limitations of metaphor. Uses an empirical study of computer users to illustrate the genre-ecology…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education
