SPINUZZI TO CO-LEAD RSA WORKSHOP

This summer, DRW faculty member Clay Spinuzzi will join collaborators Mark Zachry (University of Washington) and Bill Hart-Davidson (Michigan State University) in leading a two-day workshop for the Rhetoric Society of America Third Biennial Summer Institute. The workshop, entitled "Visualizing Patterns of Group Communication in Digital Workspaces," covers how to "extend the analysis of organizational writing practices to include digital environments."

In the workshop, participants will learn how to analyze qualitative research through several models that Spinuzzi, Zachry, and Hart-Davidson have developed over the last several years, allowing them to visualize different aspects of work. (Spinuzzi is teaching UT students these models in his RHE 330c, Designing Text Ecologies.)

Spinuzzi is the author of Tracing Genres through Organizations (MIT Press) and Network (Cambridge University Press), two research accounts that use some of the models discussed in the workshop.