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RTFM NOOb: Criticizing Internet Based Instructional Documents as a Rhetorical Genre

Creator:: Carlson, Gordon S. III
Abstract:: The purpose of this thesis is to aid in qualitative improvements to technical support documents on the Internet. By using a generic criticism this analysis will make substantive suggestions towards the improvement of this type of document by engaging the rhetoric employed by their authors. It will discuss the history...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: formatting conventions) finally ended their near 50 year stance that technical writing had no place within

Virtual virtuosos : cyborgs and integrative ethics in the intimate machine

Creator:: Clemenhagen, Ronda L.
Abstract:: Standard accounts of women's relationship with technology stress women's need to overcome anxiety to achieve competence with computers. Recent studies provide evidence that this woman-anxiety-technology connection is an oversimplification of the relationship between women and computers. New literature also suggests that making computers more appealing will help girls overcome computational...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Scientific and Technical Communication presented on July 17, 2000. Title: Virtual Virtuosos: Cyborgs and

Relationships between grades in technical mathematics and in certain other technical subjects in the mechanical technology curriculum at the Erie County Technical Institute

Creator:: Fries, Henry William
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: each credIt hour; and D, no qualitj points. "Technical Institute" refers to a two-year, corn

Negotiating between conflicting discourse communities : scientists writing technical marketing copy

Creator:: Bratten, JoAnne Lynn
Abstract:: This case study investigates how scientists who write technical marketing copy experience and resolve the tension that results from the conflicting demands of their local (company) and global (research science) discourse communities. Twelve scientists, who are currently technical marketing writers at a small biotechnology company, were interviewed by e-mail over...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Master of Science in Scientific and Technical Communication presented on October 29. 2001. Title

Comparative training values of the various industrial arts activities and their influence on the industrial arts program of the high school

Creator:: Newth, Carroll Ruble
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: _____________ I ein ernÏ)lOyed in a (Junior High, High School, Technical School, (Underline one) College

The development and application of a "self-help" industrial training concept for the fashion apparel industry

Creator:: Bladholm, John Roger
Abstract:: Industrial training in the Fashion Apparel Industry is confronted with difficult objectives. In this industry, continual style and fabric change challenge the effectiveness of conventional industrial training techniques and concepts. To meet this challenge, the "Self-Help" training concept was developed. "Self-Help" centers around the philosophy of training sewing machine operators...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to such arts as making shoes, forging, etc. Until the close of the colonial period in 1783, no

A Feminist Celebrates the Rediscovery of Immanence

Creator:: Lockhart, Janet L.
Abstract:: I offer a personal and prehistoric exploration of the concept of immanence, the principle of a divine force living, remaining, and operating within living creatures, inherent in the human, including the female; a unifying force that connects humans to each other, to nature, and to the earth. I examine the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Scientific and Technical Communication

The use of a technical library

Creator:: Jorgensen, William Ernest, 1913-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: .) It may be well to note in a discussion of technical periodicals that a given professional society

Techniques for sectioning mathematics students in the Sault Ste. Marie residence center

Creator:: Funkenbusch, Walter William
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: his work became necessary. . s s s s s S S S s s s S s S s s S s a e (1, p. 212) Students enter

Adjustment problems of technical institute students

Creator:: O'Connell, Forrest Lester
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Adjustment problems of technical institute students

Proposal for reorganizing the industrial arts program at Brigham Young University

Creator:: Gamett, Lavell Clarence
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: indication of individual desires. At no timo should it be assumed that a course title L.' represents

Attitudes of freshman men students toward physical education at Oregon Technical Institute

Creator:: Palmberg, Walter Henry, 1912-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Education At Oregon Technical Institute ATTITUDES OF FRESHMEN MEN STUDENTS TOWARD PHYSICAL EDUC!TION T

Industrial arts and the integrative curriculum

Creator:: Ott, Walter Herbert
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: contact in life is forever changing. The schools are no exöeption. But it is the rate and direction of

Effectiveness of an expert system for teaching casting defect diagnosis in engineering and technical education

Creator:: Ruyle, Kim E.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a significant difference in the amount of technical subject matter learned during a fixed period of instruction by students working with a computer expert system and students working with human experts from a technical field. All students participating in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: defect diagnosis in engineering and technical education AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kim E. Ruyle for

GenderMag’s Socio-Technical Artifacts “Grow up” To Expand GenderMag’s Impact

Creator:: Bhuva, Brijesh H.
Abstract:: This project report presents an implementation of a GenderMag Recorder's Assistant from a semi-working state to a fully working Chrome web store application. In addition, this project report also discusses the persona customization option and limitations and how the persona tool eases the process of persona customization. For results, we...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Title Page GenderMag’s Socio-Technical Artifacts “Grow up” To Expand

An evaluation model for international short-term training programs in small-scale fisheries

Creator:: Martinson, Steven Eric
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to propose a model for evaluating international short-term training programs in small-scale fisheries. The study focused on providing useful information to decision-makers of the program funding agency and the training program operator. The proposed evaluation model could also prove useful for other technically-oriented short-term...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: .) Associate Professor of Vocational and Technical Education in Charge of Major Redacted for Privacy

A history of industrial arts in Oregon to 1950

Creator:: Moreland, Robert Morris
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: School of Education. Technical courses arid services are furnished by the School of Engineering in

Technical structure and productivity change in the U.S. grain milling industries

Creator:: Fujii, Yoko, 1974-
Abstract:: The grain milling industry has undergone substantial change during the past several decades in technical as well as industry structure. This study seeks to determine how industry performance, as reflected in productivity growth, has varied since the 1950's. Productivity growth is represented primarily by its dual rate, the percentage reduction...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Title: Technical Structure and Productivity Change in the U.S. Grain Milling Industries. Steven

Improving Safety of the Platform-Train-Interface Through Operational and Technical Mitigation Strategies

Creator:: Anderson, Dylan
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to provide background information and examples of best practices relating to platform-train-interface (PTI) safety. The research and information obtained for this manuscript has been in association with the A-40 project funded by the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) of the National Academies. The purpose...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Operational and Technical Mitigation Strategies

Financial development and technical efficiency : Georgian banking in transition, 1991-2000

Creator:: Amaghlobeli, David
Abstract:: In this study overall financial development and the performance of commercial banks in Georgia during 1991-2000 is analyzed. Georgian banking system emerged from a scratch after the country gained its independence in 1991. Initial reform path turned out to be very arduous, full of failures and disappointments. After complete chaos...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Technical Efficiency: Georgian Banking in Transition, 199 1-2000 Abstract approved: John P. Farrell In

Investigating socio-technical factors in short-term continuous improvement project effectiveness

Creator:: Stelson, Paul Martinez
Abstract:: Lean manufacturing, or more generally continuous improvement (CI), has been the methodology behind significant improvements in quality, work in process inventory reductions, lead time reduction and cost reduction while conversely being associated with failed implementations and occasionally with unpopular work practices. This research focused on promoting understanding of CI methodology...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Investigating Socio-technical Factors in Short-term Continuous Improvement Project Effectiveness Abstract

The technical and professional preparation of industrial arts teachers in Oregon

Creator:: Saling, Neil Edmund
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: The technical and professional preparation of industrial

Habitat occurrence and notes on the life of the dusky-footed wood rat, Neotoma fuscipes baird

Creator:: Walters, Roland Dick
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: also limit the distributon of the three grous of Ieotoma fuse ipes. It is also interesting to note

Bacterial Problems in the Home

Creator:: Davis, Bertha
Abstract:: In the educational wave that is sweeping our country from ocean to ocean, technical education is at its crest, and no phase is more popular than domestic science. Indeed it has such a hold upon public opinion that it is quite the fashion, a commendable fact, for as soon as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , technical education is at its crest, and no phase is more popular than domestic science. Indeed it has

Scientists' perspectives on the importance of scientific communication in natural resource decision-making

Creator:: Shaw, Christine Michelle
Abstract:: Natural resource decisions require consideration at many levels, ranging from how one invertebrate will be affected by a nearby road, to how an entire watershed will be transformed by a massive clearcut. Considerations reach farther than just the local ecological community-human communities, economies, and future impacts on the communities and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Communication of Science 8 What good is scientific discovery if no one finds out about it? This is the

The milling qualities of wheat

Creator:: Varma, Sanjhi Ram
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the writer claims no originality of his own, beyond the arrangement of material, and wording of

Studies of economic rates, forms, and combinations of use of sulfur as a fertilizer

Creator:: Haynes, Joseph D.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the Reclamation of Black Alkali Land. ·university of Arizona Technical Bulletin No. 6. 3

A study of index numbers for Oregon agricultural commodities

Creator:: Boals, Gordon Porter
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of a magnitude not susceptible to accurate measurement". There would be no difficulty in such

The dehydration of apples

Creator:: Wieman, John Samuel
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the day. One of the most important facts to note is the kind of influence, whether direct or

A tentative program for vocational guidance in the rural high schools of Oregon

Creator:: Michelbrook, Herbert Stephen
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: we learn that 212 out of a total of 405 rural high schools report no definite plan of guidance. The

How technical industrial arts courses may contribute to the training of expressional hand-work teachers in grades I to VIII

Creator:: Capron, Albert Marshall
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: How technical industrial arts courses may contribute to

A contribution toward a bibliography of Oregon botany with notes on the botanical explorers of the state

Creator:: Osborn, Katherine H., 1906-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: be examined. Certain articles whose titles give no indication of the actual localities of specimens

"No pain, no fear, no regrets": views of a good death

Creator:: Amberwood, Lee J.
Abstract:: Substantial research has shown deficits in the quality of end-of-life care in the U.S. In response to evidence of these deficits, efforts have been made to improve quality of end-of-life care. One approach has been to ask the question, "What is a good death?" Data on views of a good...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Master of Science in Human Development and Family Studies presented on December 3. 2004. Title: "No

Utilization of Low-value Lumber from Small-diameter Timber Harvested in Pacific Northwest Forest Restoration Programs in Hybrid Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) Core Layers: Technical Feasibility

Creator:: Lawrence, Christina
Abstract:: Each year the United States: Forest Service (USFS) spends billions of dollars fighting forest fires. One strategy used by the USFS to prevent catastrophic fires is through forest restoration programs, in which potential forest fuel is removed through mechanized thinning. This program is expensive and generates high volumes of small-diameter...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Programs in Hybrid Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) Core Layers: Technical Feasibility Abstract

The species of root-weevils attacking strawberry with especial reference to their life history, habits and control in Oregon

Creator:: Wilcox, Joseph, 1901-1982
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: beetles with no results. Patch (212) found that powdered sulfur, camphor, and pyrethrur' did not repel

The effect of various heat treatments upon the vitality of seed potatoes and upon the development of potato plants

Creator:: Owen, Forrest Vern
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: chemical solutions are of no value in checking organisms that live in thevascular tissue of the potato

A study in plum pollination

Creator:: Marshall, Roy Edgar, 1890-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of the varieties grown there are grown here commercially. -1- REVIEW OF LITERATUR1. No

Peach blight as caused by Coryneum beijerinckii

Creator:: Scherer, Christopher Marion
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: note concerning the host plants. Such a note is of value insofar as it facilitates the drawing of oon

A study of some economic factors in the scarification of red clover and alfalfa seed

Creator:: Hale, Ralph Irvin
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , is 0± material oÎ vaing composition and no definite structure. The second layer, which is rather

A list of the aphididae of the world with host plants

Creator:: Wilson, H. F. (Harley Frost), 1883-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . 28, n.n. to replace Cladobius Koch, preoccupied. Note: Usata gia dal Dejeau ne'Coleotteri, onde

Histological technique for study of filbert pollination and fertilization

Creator:: Wharton, Malcolm Frederic
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: tried but with no greater success. To work out methods for handling such unusual material would

A course in mechanical drawing for the O.A.C.

Creator:: Graf, Samuel Herman, 1887-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: a great demand for a book suited to the instruc- tional work as given in the many technical

What the rural social worker needs to know about mental deficiency

Creator:: Hawley, Edna Tibbits
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: supervision. No better statement of the conditions which have led the writer to desire to put the material

The Aegeriidae of the Pacific states

Creator:: Thompson, B. G. (Benjamin Garrison), 1891-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , simple in the fei1e and with peotinations In the male. - lo - NO tonßle. Forewings with 1]. veins

A physiological study of food storage in dormant shoots of tree fruits

Creator:: Abell, Tracy H.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: larger rays occurringbetween the fibrovascular bundles. However, there i's no starch found in the rays

The management of dairy herds by colleges and universities

Creator:: Stover, Raymond Luther
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the herd is maintained, Literature Reviewed and Method of Study. As far as is known there is no

A bacteriological study of certain organisms causing the spoilage in canned peas

Creator:: Chu, John Shih
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Food Safe." They claimed triat there was no danger l'ram food poisoning. The type of food -4

A farm management survey and factor study of a group of one hundred farms in Yamhill county

Creator:: Dietsch, Frank John
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Quality of Business. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pe No. 26 Quality in Crop Production

The effect of potassium on the germination of corn

Creator:: Gardner, Harry Harrison
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . to a single phase; the effect of potassium on germination. After a careful search, no pertinent

The organization and supervision of agriculture in the high schools of Oregon

Creator:: Laughlin, Norman James
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: not be a true representation conditions, since no consideration is taLen of the vast acrea,:-,'s of

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