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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
Peer reviewedSlatin, John M. – Computers and Composition, 2001
Attempts to persuade friends and colleagues in the computers and writing community to do more to ensure that the Web pages (especially for classes) are accessible to people with disabilities. Raises this issue as a matter of some urgency in light of the surging interest in multimedia and visual rhetoric represented by this special issue. (SG)
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education
