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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the book ideas! Thanks to your suggestions, I’ve got new ideas and resources.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And, to a point a few of y’all raised, I teach document design in a hybrid visual rhetoric/production model—first half of the course is theory, language, and design thinking, second half production. We do a lot, and it’s a model I’ve had
great experiences with.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My real concern is that it’s possible we won’t be meeting in person, so I’m trying to plan for the worst (since I love F2F teaching) and hope for the best.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Take care and be safe,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Derek<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5597">Derek G. Ross<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5597">Department of English, 9030 Haley Center<br>
Auburn University, AL 36849-5203<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:#2F5597"><a href="http://www.derekross.com/" title="http://www.derekross.com/"><span style="color:#2F5597">http://www.derekross.com</span></a></span></u><span style="color:#2F5597"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Curtis Newbold <cnewbold@westminstercollege.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 12:36 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Derek Ross <derek.ross@auburn.edu>, Steve <onlineprof@protonmail.com><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"attw-l@attw.org" <attw-l@attw.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [ATTW-L] Document Design<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">To Steve's point, in graduate school, the question I often ask, is, "is this a course on visual communication or is it on publication design?" If it's a skills-based course strictly intended for
creating documents using Adobe InDesign, I don't know that you'll find Norman's <i>
Design of Everyday Things</i> to be all that useful (and I say that as one who loves the book). But if the course is more about understanding how visual choices affect interpretation and action, Norman's book is an excellent conversation-starter. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">That said, I find it helpful to give my graduate students a cornucopia of low-cost design books (under $30 each) that cover both theory and practice. These are the books I most commonly combine
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I'm also currently building out my website section on information design rules. Maybe you'll find this helpful? </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 14, 2020 5:01 PM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A lot relies on whether students are creating documents or throwing bricks out of the ivory tower at people creating documents. My guess is that with the lab you run, they're creating documents, though the Norman makes me unsure. Then it
really depends on what kind of documents they're designing. FWIW, if it fits your expectations, you may want to consider Research and Documentation in the Digital Age by Diana Hacker and Barbara Fister, as it should be robust enough for a graduate level course,
though I used it in my undergrad course at Dartmouth a few years back without complaint, class on science and technology writing and presentation. We also used A. H. Hofmann's Scientific Writing and Communication: Papers, Proposals, and Presentations. I've
used many other document creation texts, of course, in Web design or information design classes. Really depends on whether they're doing theory or practice, or, preferably, both. In practice, I like students to design document elements such as schematics and
infographics, and one of the best ways to have them do that is accessing an online service or app dedicated to the task. Document creation is a fun, enjoyable, and rewarding enterprise. I envy your graduate students having the opportunity to now learn it in
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<p>First, I hope you are all safe and sane in these trying times!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Second, I could use your input. I’m teaching a graduate level course on Document Design in the Fall. I’ve taught the course off and on for over a decade now, and I’d like to update my core texts. I’ve found that a good, solid grounding book really helps—I’ve
used Karen Schriver’s work, and Kimball & Hawkins, and I love them both. They are both, however, out of print, and don’t offer all of the resources that I might need if we end up doing this thing in an online or hybrid model. What should I be using?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>I’ve already got Don Norman’s <i>Design of Everyday Things</i> in my maybe-basket, as well as Cairo’s
<i>Functional Ar</i>t. And maybe Wyatt and Devoss’s <i>Type Matters</i>, along with plenty of wonderful pieces of new scholarship from our various journals. What are your must-haves?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="color:#2F5597">Editor, <i><u><a href="https://sigdoc.acm.org/publication/" title="https://sigdoc.acm.org/publication/"><span style="color:#2F5597">Communication Design Quarterly</span></a></u></i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="color:#2F5597">Co-Director, <a href="http://cla.auburn.edu/lucia/" title="http://cla.auburn.edu/lucia/"><span style="color:#2F5597">Laboratory for Usability, Communication, Interaction, and Accessibility</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="color:#2F5597">334-844-9073</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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