Content Management

George Pullman is associate professor of English at Georgia State University, where he teaches the history of rhetoric and electronic communication practices. He has published articles in such journals as Computers and Composition, Rhetoric, Review and Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and chapters in edited collections such as Technical Communication and the World Wide Web and What is the New Rhetoric?. He most recently edited with Baotong Gu, a collection of articles on content management for Technical Communication Quarterly. He also designs and implements custom information application. Baotong Gu is an assistant professor of English at Georgia State University, where he teaches rhetoric, composition, and technical communication. His recent publications include a collection of articles on content management for Technical Communication Quarterly which he co-edited with George Pullman, and two collections on western rhetoric, Contemporary Western Rhetoric: Methods and Paradigms and Contemporary Western Rhetoric: Speech and Discourse Criticism. His book From Oracle Bones to Computers: The Emergence of Writing Technologies in China is being published by Parlor Press.

Introduction

PART I CMS Implementation

CHAPTER ONE Experiences with Building a Narrative Web Content Management System: Best Practices for Developing Specialized Content Management Systems (and Lessons Learned for the Classroom) Rudy McDaniel

CHAPTER TWO Analyze Before You Act: CMS and Knowledge Transfer Carol Siri Johnson and Susan Fowler

CHAPTER THREE Learning with Limits: New Faculty and Course Management Systems Julie Staggers, Meredith W. Zoetewey, and Michael Pennell

PART II CMS and Technical Communication Pedagogy

CHAPTER FOUR Why We Should Teach XML: An Argument for Technical Acuity Becky Jo Gesteland McShane

CHAPTER FIVE Digital Delivery and Communication Technologies: Understanding Content Management Systems through Rhetorical Theory Michelle F. Eble

CHAPTER SIX Topography of Educational Place(s): Technical Communication, Instructor Preparedness, and Hybrid Courses Lisa Meloncon

PART III CMS and the Profession of Technical Communication

CHAPTER SEVEN Content Management Systems and Technical Communication: Rolling with the Tide Robin Evans

CHAPTER EIGHT Single Sourcing and the Return to Positivism: The Threat of Plain-Style, Arhetorical Technical Communication Practices Jeffrey Bacha

CHAPTER NINE Content Management in an International Outsourcing Framework: A Perspective for Technical Communicators Kirk St. Amant

CHAPTER TEN The Technical Editor as New Media Author: How CMSs Affect Editorial Authority Nicole Amare

CHAPTER ELEVEN Applying Cohesion and Contrastive Rhetoric Research to Content Management Practices Lyn F. Gattis

Meet the Contributors

Index