Integrating Usability Testing with Digital Rhetoric in OWI

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dc.citation.volume49en_US
dc.contributor.authorBjork, Cen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-24T04:58:55Z
dc.date.available2024-04-24T04:58:55Z
dc.description.abstractWhile usability testing can help instructors improve the design of online writing instruction (OWI), its emphasis on student-users sometimes overlooks the networked rhetorical ecologies in which those student-users operate, tilting online composition pedagogy toward neoliberal models of higher education that cater to the student-as-consumer. In response, I propose augmenting usability testing in online writing education with the theories of digital rhetoric. In the context of OWI, usability theory and digital rhetoric share a similar emphasis on the student as a user or audience, but they also have at least two key differences. First, unlike digital rhetoric, usability testing typically elides the political and ideological implications of student-users’ experiences. Second, the usability theories of Jakob Nielsen, for example, tend to view online interfaces as static objects manipulated by users. Digital rhetoric, on the other hand, sees interfaces as dynamic, real-time interactions. Although both paradigms have their advantages, I argue that integrating usability testing with the theories of digital rhetoric can add complexity to researchers’ understanding of OWI by revealing not only how students use online writing environments but also how they use them rhetorically.en_US
dc.description.confidentialfalseen_US
dc.edition.editionSeptember 2018en_US
dc.identifierhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8755461518300240en_US
dc.identifierhttp://www.collinbjork.com/en_US
dc.identifierS8755461518300240en_US
dc.identifier.citationComputers and Composition, 2018, September 2018, 49 pp. 4 - 13en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.compcom.2018.05.009en_US
dc.identifier.elements-id427334
dc.identifier.issn8755-4615en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/69473
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.publisherElsevier B.V.en_US
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8755461518300240en_US
dc.relation.isPartOfComputers and Compositionen_US
dc.relation.isreplacedby123456789/27457
dc.relation.isreplacedbyhttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/27457
dc.subjectusabilityen_US
dc.subjectuser-centered designen_US
dc.subjectUXen_US
dc.subjectUXDen_US
dc.subjectUCDen_US
dc.subjectdigital rhetoricen_US
dc.subjectonline writing instructionen_US
dc.subjectOWIen_US
dc.subjectcompositionen_US
dc.subjectpedagogyen_US
dc.subject.anzsrc1303 Specialist Studies in Educationen_US
dc.titleIntegrating Usability Testing with Digital Rhetoric in OWIen_US
dc.typeJournal Article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences/School of Humanities, Media & Creative Communication
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