Book Commentary 26 Introduction to the Book Commentaries Bob Johnson Miami University Oxford, OH 45056 n the spring and summer semesters of this year, I had the opportunity to teach two separate graduate seminars. The spring seminar, Technical and Scientific Communication, is a required course in Miami University's Master of Technical and Scientific Communica. tion (MTSC) program where we usually spend most of our time in the rather practical endeavor of developing a variety of documents that prepare students for their careers in the workplace. The summer seminar, Theories and Histories of Technical Communication, was a special topic seminar in our rhetoric and composition doctoral program that emphasized a more traditional scholarly analysis of issues, texts, and trends. Laura Gurak's Persuasion and Privacy in Cyberspace: The Online Protests Over Lotus Marketplace and the Clipper Chip was read in both of these classes. In the MTSC class, Gurak's analysis of online communication fostered much debate over the use of electronic media in the workplace, while the Ph.D. seminar used the book to probe the theoretical assumptions we hold regarding electronic media and public information. To further complicate and expand the discussions in these two classes, a listserv was set up between the Miami students and Professor Gurak at the University of Minnesota--a lively forum that fostered a considerable amount of the discussion and reflection that provided much of the fodder for these three reviews. I believe that the three reviews included in this issue demonstrate, in compelling ways, how the practical issues we deal with everyday in our professional lives intersect very visibly with the theoretical and historical issues that so often are often tacit or invisible. I also think that it is important that we bring our students' perspectives on these issues to the forefront so that they can demonstrate, in refreshing and innovative fashion, how important it is cross these lines of theory and practice. I applaud SIGDOC's continuing efforts to include students' voices in our discussions: voices that will help to form, in a very short time, the future of our profession. Heidi Huse is a Ph.D candidate in rhetoric and composition at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Lauren Jamieson and Lisa Rosenberger are Master's degree candidates in Miami University's Technical and Scientific Communication program. *Journal of Computer Documentation November1998/Vol. 22, No. 4
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Introduction to the book commentaries
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