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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This is the time of year across the US that intrepid individuals of all ages take on the spine-chilling challenge of navigating a corn maze, and thus it is the ideal opportunity
to examine how technical communicators might address this annual source of physical and emotional peril and mitigate its dangers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">At
<a href="https://safeagritourism.org/walkthroughs/corn-maze/">https://safeagritourism.org/walkthroughs/corn-maze/</a>, you will find a “Corn Maze Safety Walkthrough”: this interactive series of questions and answers, using words and pictures, identifies guidelines
for the cautious operation of a corn maze.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The “Integrating Safety into Agrotourism” site (<a href="https://safeagritourism.org">https://safeagritourism.org</a>) is a project of the National Children’s Center for Rural
and Agricultural Health and Safety. It also offers safety walkthroughs for hayrides, petting zoos, inflatable rides, and play areas as well as a striking array of checklists, flyers, posters, and signs on risk-related topics (e.g., hand washing, first aid).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The materials here are ripe for analysis, discussion, testing, and revision (e.g., with a pair of exceptions, in all of the various safety walkthroughs, all pictures of people
are pictures of white people).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Sam Dragga<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Professor Emeritus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Texas Tech University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">sam.dragga@ttu.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">1-806-543-6099<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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