[ATTW-L] Scientific Exhibit Analysis

Mon Jan 13 22:43:30 UTC 2020

Thanks for this query, Jackie!

I'm currently working with a state arboretum on their interpretive planning process, which includes signage, wayfinding, and other visitor-oriented materials (though not so much exhibits in the sense you'd find at a museum).

To that end, I've combed through the tech comm and rhetoric literature for sources on museums, interpretation, exhibits, etc. While I didn't find as much as I expected, there is some great work. In addition to Carliner's TC article (thanks, Russell!), I recommend:

  1.  Carliner, S. (2000). Taking Cues from the Culture: The Case of Network Earth. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 14(3), 264–288. https://doi.org/10.1177/105065190001400302
  2.  Dyehouse, J. (2011). “A Textbook Case Revisited”: Visual Rhetoric and Series Patterning in the American Museum of Natural History’s Horse Evolution Displays. Technical Communication Quarterly, 20(3), 327–346. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2011.578235
  3.  Jane Greer, & Laurie Grobman (Eds.). (2016). Pedagogies of public memory: Teaching writing and rhetoric at museums, archives, and memorials. Routledge.
  4.  Kim, L. (2005). Tracing Visual Narratives: User-testing Methodology for Developing a Multimedia Museum Show. Technical Communication; Washington, 52(2), 121–137.
  5.  Kitalong, K. S., Moody, J. E., Middlebrook, R. H., & Ancheta, G. S. (2009). Beyond the Screen: Narrative Mapping as a Tool for Evaluating a Mixed-Reality Science Museum Exhibit. Technical Communication Quarterly: TCQ; Oxford, 18(2), 142–165.

Hope these are helpful!

Cagle

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Subject: Re: [ATTW-L] Scientific Exhibit Analysis

Saul Carliner published an article in Technical Communication that drew lessons for technical communication and instructional design from a number of museum exhibits. It could help someone connect museum exhibits to tech comm concepts.

Modeling Information for Three-dimensional Space: Lessons Learned from Museum Exhibit Design
Author: Carliner, Saul
Source: Technical Communication, Volume 48, Number 1, February 2001, pp. 66-81(16)
or
Source: Technical Communication, Volume 50, Number 4, November 2003, pp. 554-570(17)

Best regards,
Russell Willerton
Georgia Southern University

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 11:16 AM Jacquelyn HoermannElliott <jhelliott at twu.edu<mailto:jhelliott at twu.edu>> wrote:
Good morning,

Would anyone be willing to share an assignment sheet, or even ideas, for teaching a writing assignment that analyzes an exhibit? I have a graduate student teaching technical writing at our university for the first time, and she could use help with ideas.

Nota bene: This assignment idea was envisioned in part by one of our faculty members who passed away last fall. I have some ideas to share with her, but some help from the wider field would be much more helpful, I think.

Thanks in advance,

Jackie

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Texas Woman's University

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