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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Sam,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thank you for sharing this site and the reminder about the
<i>TC</i> issue in 2018. I will add them to my syllabus on Rhetoric, Civic Discourse, and Public Policy (the focus of the senior seminar I’m teaching this fall for our PTW major). The general name for the capstone course is English 4874: Issues in Professional
and Public Discourse. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">One of the issues I’m focusing on is voting rights. We’re going to read
<i>One Person, No Vote</i> by Carol Anderson as part of a case study on the history/impact of the 1965 VRA.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I, as always, appreciate your keen eye and willingness to share wonderful information and teaching resources.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hope you are staying safe. Jim
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">James M. Dubinsky, PhD<br>
Associate Professor, Rhetoric & Writing, D/English (0112) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Executive Director, Association for Business Communication (ABC)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">(540) 641-2564 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black">ATTW-L <attw-l-bounces@attw.org> on behalf of "Dragga, Sam" <Sam.Dragga@ttu.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, August 7, 2020 at 10:33 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"attw-l@attw.org" <attw-l@attw.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[ATTW-L] Center for Civic Design's field guide for mail-in ballots<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;font-weight:normal">If you are looking to start the semester with a propitious (and potentially inspiring) example of technical communication in action, consider the Center for Civic Design’s newest field guide,
<i>Designing Vote at Home Envelopes and Materials,</i> at <a href="https://civicdesign.org/fieldguides/104-designing-vote-at-home-envelopes/">
https://civicdesign.org/fieldguides/104-designing-vote-at-home-envelopes/</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;font-weight:normal">This illustrated guide for election officials covers<span style="background:white"> the information design choices and practical decisions involved in creating mail-in ballots for the 2020 elections.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">The Center for Civic Design offers a series of field guides at
<a href="https://civicdesign.org/fieldguides/">https://civicdesign.org/fieldguides/</a> that might be pertinent to your classes: for example,
<i>Designing Usable Ballots, Writing Instructions Voters Understand, </i>and<i> Testing Ballots for Usability.
</i></span><o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">This material could also be paired with readings from the 2018 special issue of
<i>Technical Communication</i> (65.4) on election technologies, which was guest edited by Godwin Agboka and Isidore Dorpenyo. In addition to the introduction by the guest editors, “</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;font-weight:normal">Election
Technologies, Technical Communication, and Civic Engagement” (pp. 349-353), <span style="background:white">
this issue offers the following articles:</span></span><o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Fernando Sánchez, “Racial Gerrymandering and Geographic Information Systems: Subverting the 2011 Texas District Map with Election Technologies<span class="apple-converted-space">” (pp. 354-370)</span></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Natasha N. Jones and Miriam F. Williams, “Technologies of Disenfranchisement: Literacy Tests and Black Voters in the US from 1890 to 1965” (pp. 371-386) [NOTE: Recipient of the 2020 CCCC Award <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">for Best
Article Reporting Historical Research or Textual Studies in Technical and Scientific Communication.]</span></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Jennifer Sano-Franchini<span class="apple-converted-space">, “</span>Designing Outrage, Programming Discord: A Critical Interface Analysis
of Facebook as a Campaign Technology<span class="apple-converted-space">” (pp. 387-410)</span></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Jim Nugent, “Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Ballots: Technical Communication and Trust in Electoral Systems” (pp. 411-422)</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Matthew Bridgewa<span class="apple-converted-space">ter, “</span>Ethos in Electoral Technology Company Web Spaces<span class="apple-converted-space">” (pp. 422-431)</span></span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sam</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sam Dragga</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Emeritus, Texas Tech University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Editor,
<i>Technical Communication</i> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">sam.dragga@ttu.edu</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1-806-543-6099</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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