1. Required readings (to purchase)

• Aristotle. (1991). On rhetoric: A theory of civic discourse. Ed. George A. Kennedy. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Enos, T., & Brown, S. C. (Eds.) (1994). Professing the new rhetorics: A sourcebook. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Folger, J. P. , Poole, M. S., & Stutman, R. K. (1993). Working through conflict: Strategies for relationships, groups, and organizations. 2nd ed. New York: HarperCollins.
• Schön, D. A. (1983). The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action. New York: Basic Books.
• Williams, J. M. (1990). Style: Ten lessons in clarity and grace. New York: Harper Collins.

Group A: Invention in design

• Brown, J. S., & Duguid, P. (1994). Borderline issues: Social and material aspects of design. Human-Computer Interaction, 9(1): 3-36.
• Coyne, R., & Snodgrass, A. (1991). Is designing mysterious? Challenging the dual knowledge thesis. Design Studies, 12(3): 124-131.
• Weber, R. J., & Perkins, D. N. (1989). How to invent artifacts and ideas. New Ideas in Psychology, 7(1): 49-72.

• Anderson, P. V. (1985). What survey research tells us about writing at work. In L. Odell & D. Goswami (Eds.), Writing in nonacademic settings, 3-83. New York: The Guilford Press.
• Wallace, K. R. (1963). The substance of rhetoric: Good reasons. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 49(3): 239-249.
• Winsor, D. A. (1994). Invention and writing in technical work: Representing the object. Written Communication, 11(2): 227-250.

• Brown, R. (1989). Group processes: Dynamics within and between groups. New York: Basil Blackwell.
• Burnett, R. E. (1991). Substantive conflict in a cooperative context: A way to improve the collaborative planning of workplace documents. Technical Communication, 38: 532-539.
• Gersick, C. J. G. (1988). Time and transition in work teams: Towards a new model of group development. Academy of Management Journal, 31: 9-41.
• Goffman, E. (1955). On face-work: An analysis of ritual elements in social interaction. Psychiatry, 18(3): 213-231.
• Jay, A. (1976). How to run a meeting. Harvard Busines Review, 54(2): 43-57.
• Olson, G. M., Olson, J. S., Carter, M. R., & Storrøsten, M. (1992). Small group design meetings: An analysis of collaboration. Human-Computer Interaction, 7(4): 347-374.

• Coates, J. (1986). Women, men, and language: A sociolinguistic account of sex differences in language. Essex, England: Longman UK.
• Sproull, L., & Kiesler, S. (1986). Reducing social context cues: Electronic mail in organizational communication. Management Science, 32: 1492-1512.

• Foreman, J., & Shumway, D. (1992). Cultural studies: Reading visual texts. In J. Berlin & M. Vivion (Eds.), Cultural Studies in the English Classroom. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton Cook.
• Goldschmidt, G. (1991). The dialectics of sketching. Creativity Research Journal, 4(2): 123-143.
• Henderson, K. (1991). Flexible sketches and inflexible data bases: Visual communication, conscription devices, and boundary objects in design engineering. Science, Technology, and Human Values, 16(4): 448-473.
• Larkin, J. H., & Simon, H. A. (1987). Why a diagram is (sometimes) worth ten thousand words. Cognitive Science, 11: 65-99.
• Williams, T. R. (1993). What’s so different about visuals? Unpublished ms. University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (see Fleming for this)

• Fischer, G., Lemke, A. C., McCall, R., & Morch, A. I. (1991). Making argumentation serve design. Human-Computer Interaction, 6(3&4): 393-419.
• Schriver, K. S. (1990). Evaluating text quality: The continuum from text-focused to reader-focused methods. Tech. Rpt. #41. Pittsburgh, PA: The Center for the Study of Writing at Carnegie Mellon University.
• Sims-Knight, J. E. (1992). To picture or not to picture: How to decide. Visible Language, 26(3&4): 324-387.
• Smith, B. H. (1988). Fixed marks and variable constancies: A parable of value. From Contingencies of Value: Alternative perspectives for critical theory, 1-16. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

• Cuff, D. (1991). The architect’s milieu. From Architecture: The story of practice, 155-194. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Friedson, E. (1984). Are professions necessary? In T. L. Haskell (Ed.), The authority of experts: Studies in history and theory, 3-27. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.