A Rhetoric of Electronic Instruction Sets

Stuart A. Selber Pennsylvania State University

Abstract

This article offers a heuristic for conceptualizing the broad contours of electronic instruction sets as they have developed for and in online environments. The heuristic includes three interconnected models: self-contained, which leverages the features of fixed instructional content; embedded, which leverages the features of user-generated metadata; and open, which leverages the features of mutable instructional content. Although the models overlap to some extent, their distinctions help to illustrate the changing nature of online how-to discourse.

Journal
Technical Communication Quarterly
Published
2010-03-11
DOI
10.1080/10572250903559340
Open Access
Closed

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