Spinuzzi

Is there a difference between hitting a nail with  and without  a hammer? This is one of the provocative questions that Latour asks in Rea...

The Structuring of Organizations By Henry Mintzberg  I've been researching adhocracies lately, beginning with Toffler's book Futur...

Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture: Based on the Competing Values Framework By Kim S. Cameron and Robert E. Quinn I found this...

The Craft of Research, Third Edition By Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams A quick review for a quick read. This bo...

Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean By David Gelernter I've d...

Hart-Davidson, W., Zachry, M., & Spinuzzi, C. (2012).  Activity streams: Building context to coordinate writing activity in collaborativ...

The Tacit Dimension By Michael Polanyi The Tacit Dimension is an oft-cited book, so often cited that I have often felt guilty for not re...

Adhocracy By Robert H. Waterman, Jr. Alvin Toffler's 1970 book Future Shock  coined the term "ad-hocracy" to describe ...

Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It By Howard S. Becker Howard Becker, one of the more famous...

Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography, Second Edition By John Van Maanen During my Q&A at a recent conference, someone character...

The Anatomy of Persuasion By Norbert Aubuchon For years, I've been using Rich Freed's book Writing Winning Business Proposals in...

For the last few years, I've been thinking about David Ronfeldt's TIMN framework , in which he discusses how four basic forms of hum...

I've mentioned that I'm coediting a TCQ special issue on research methodologies in technical communication . But it's not the ...

I've been discussing our nascent MA in HDO for a while, but now the application page is up . Here's the degree description from th...

Early this summer, I offered a daylong seminar on proposal writing. It was based on Freed, Freed, and Romano's Writing Winning Business ...

I stopped collecting data on my coworking research project in February 2011, and published my article on it earlier this year. But coworkin...

A while back I mentioned that Brian McNely, Christa Teston and I will be editing a TCQ special issue on research methodology. Here's th...

Just a little reminiscing: In the first semester of my Ph.D. at Iowa State University, I noticed something very odd. The morning classes ...

Spinuzzi, C. (2012). Genre and generic labor . In C. Bazerman, C. Dean, J. Early, K. Lunsford, S. Null, P. Rogers, and A. Stansell (Eds.), I...

I've been discussing the principle of symmetry in actor-network theory  on the blog. In previous posts, I've tried to use commonplac...