[ATTW-L] the "Red Dawn" email strings

[Dragga, Sam]

The “Red Dawn” email strings are a series of exchanges regarding Covoid-19 that circulated among various government officials (current and former) from January 28 to March 17 of this year.

Ordinarily, we have little opportunity to review long strings of email messages from multiple contributors on issues this important and at this proximity to the time of writing.  Your students might appreciate taking a look at this example of technical communication in action and recognizing its direct and immediate influence on their lives.

The 80 pages of material is available through The New York Times at
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6879-2020-covid-19-red-dawn-rising/66f590d5cd41e11bea0f/optimized/full.pdf<https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6879-2020-covid-19-red-dawn-rising/66f590d5cd41e11bea0f/optimized/full.pdf#page=1>

The New York Times also examines 8 key exchanges in the 80 pages at
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-red-dawn-emails-trump.html, but there is a lot more in the email strings for class discussion and research projects on audience analysis, arrangement, style, information design, ethics, usability, etc.

Sam

Sam Dragga
Professor Emeritus, Texas Tech University
Editor, Technical Communication
sam.dragga at ttu.edu
1-806-543-6099

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