PDF Articles

The following PDF files are provided to students in this class under the Fair Use clause of United States Copyright Law. The download directory is encoded with a password available only to students in this class, and all files are removed from this site once the semester is completed. Students should check with the instructor to obtain the password

NOTE: Check the file size of individual items and make sure you have adequate storage space on your flash or hard drive before downloading. Students also have the option of downloading a zipped archive of all files. (17 Mb)

• Adler, S., et al. "Technical Content and Cultural Consequences of XML." IBM Systems Journal 45.2 (2006): 207-23. (131 k)
  
  
• Applen, J.D. "Technical Communication, Knowledge Management, and XML." Technical Communication 49.3 (2002): 301-13. (144 k)
  
  
• Baril, France. "A Brief Tour of XML." Intercom June 2006: 38-39. (152 k)
  
  
• ----. "Information Models and XML." Intercom November 2006: 31-33. (189 k)
  
  
• Broberg, Mats. "A Successful Documentation Management System Using XML." Technical Communication 51.4 (2004): 537-46. (546 k)
  
  
• Haas, Christina. "Constructing Technology Through Discourse." Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996. 166-201. (1.7 Mb)
  
  
• Glushko, Robert J., and Tim McGrath. Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. Chapter 1 (1.2 Mb), Chapter 2 (1.2 Mb), and Chapter 3 (908 k)
  
  
• Markoff, John. "Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense." New York Times, November 11 2006. (100 k)
  
  
• Nesbitt, Scott. DocBook: An Introduction for Technical Writers, 2006. (66 k)
  
  
• Priestly, Michael, Gretchen Hargis, and Susan Carpenter. "DITA: An XML-Based Technical Documentation Authoring and Publishing Architecture." Technical Communication 48.3 (2001): 352-67. (1.5 Mb)
  
  
• Sapienza, Filipp. "Usability, Structured Content, and Single Sourcing with XML." Technical Communication 51.3 (2004): 399-408. (118 k)
  
  
• Yates, JoAnne. Communication Technology and the Growth of Internal Communication. Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993: 21-64. (4.2 Mb)