Introduction
Iowa State University 'Tabs 1 and 2'
Ancillary Materials
Research: Print (Selected)
- Sauer, Geoffrey. "Teaching Partnerships Explored: Designing GNLEs." A solicited review of Designing Globally Networked Learning Environments by Doreen Starke-Meyerring and Melanie Wilson (eds.) Programmatic Perspectives. Forthcoming: March 2010, 4pp.
initial correspondence · review
- Kudesia, Saurabh and Geoffrey Sauer. “Rendezvous with KnowGenesis.” International Journal of Technical Communication.
Volume 2, number 2: June 2007. pp. 5-11.
- Haselkorn, Mark P., Geoffrey Sauer, Jennifer Turns, Deborah L.
Illman, Michio Tsutsui, Carolyn Plumb and Tom Williams. “Expanding the Scope of Technical Communication: Examples from the Department of Technical Communication at the University of Washington.” In Technical Communication. Volume 50, number 2. May 2003. pp. 174-191.
- Sauer, Geoffrey. “コミュニティ、コースウェア、知的財産権.” In オンライン・コミュニティ: ｅコマース、教育オンライン、 非営利オンライン 活動の最先端レポート (Online Communities: A Cutting-Edge Report on E-Commerce, Education Online, and Non-Profit Online Activities).
Chris Werry and Miranda Mowbray, eds. Ken’ich Ikeda, Ed. Supervisor. Midori Shimoda, Kiichi Obata, Ko Ito and Yumiko Koiwa, translators. Tokyo: Pearson Education Japan, 2003. pp. 187-205.
- Haselkorn, Mark P., Geoffrey Sauer and Jennifer Turns. “The Face in
the Mirror: Research Examining the Field.” In 2002 Proceedings of the International Professional Communication Conference, pp. 145-157.
- Sauer, Geoffrey. “A Commentary on Edmond H. Weiss’s ‘Egoless Writing: Improving Quality by Replacing Artistic Impulse with Engineering Discipline.’” In ACM Journal of Computer Documentation. Vol. 26, No. 1: February 2002. pp. 17-22.
- Sauer, Geoffrey. “Community, Courseware and Intellectual Property Law.” In Online Communities: Commerce, Community Action, and the Virtual University. Chris Werry and Miranda Mowbray, eds. New York: Prentice Hall, 2001. 23pp.
- Sauer, Geoffrey. “Hackers, Order and Control,” in Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life. Ed. Michael Berube. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
Research: Electronic (Selected)
- EServer.org
The EServer is an arts and humanities electronic publishing cooperative where hundreds of writers, editors and scholars gather to publish over 35,000 works free of charge to Internet readers. I serve as its director, supervising all work published here.
About the EServer
Readership: 2,024,216 visits per month
- EServer Technical Communication Library
The EServer Technical Communication Library is an open-access, categorized index of over 19,500 works available online for professional, scientific and technical communicators (such as technical writers), which seeks to help people inside and outside these fields to browse, read, and learn more about the profession. It follows the highest standards within the field for review, with eight-member advisory and editorial boards (the equivalent of peer review for online databases).
About the TC Library
Readership: 669,399 visits per month · Works indexed, over time
#4 in Google search for "technical communication"
- Bad Subjects
Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life is a cultural studies journal based in Berkeley, available both in print and online. It has been cited as the oldest continuously-available online journal.
What is Bad Subjects?
Readership: 282,247 visits per month
- Reconstruction
Reconstruction is an interdisciplinary open-access online cultural studies journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community around the most influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies. It publishes articles in film and literary studies, Birmingham-style cultural studies, and reviews.
Readership: 67,997 visits per month
- Antislavery Literature Project
The goal of the Antislavery Literature Project is to increase public access to a body of literature crucial to understanding African American experience, US and hemispheric histories of slavery, and early human rights philosophies. These educate about the role of many antislavery writers in creating contemporary concepts of freedom.
Readership: 41,030 visits per month
- 覞工程 — Project Yao
Project Yao is a free, publicly accessible permanent database of pre-1920 American literature translations into Chinese. It is a cooperative bi-national public scholarship project from Arizona State University, Iowa State University, and Sichuan University.
常见问题解答 — Frequently Asked Questions
Readership: 6,076 visits per month (just launched, on August 26, 2009)
Publications: Electronic (Non-Peer Reviewed)
- EServer Drama
The EServer Drama Collection contains a collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with theatre. It publishes both classic and contemporary works.
Readership: 62,975 visits per month
#4 in Google search for "drama"
- EServer Poetry
The EServer Poetry Collection is a website that publishes both canonical and contemporary verse, free of charge, to online readers. It is currently in the midst of a redesign and reorganization under a new editor.
Readership: 146,102 visits per month
#8 in Google search for "poetry"
- Rhetoric and Composition
This website was first created in 1994, built to serve as a central location to link to the diverse online materials available on the Internet.
Readership: 34,364 visits per month
- ISU Studio for New Media
The Studio for New Media is an interdisciplinary research institute organized to support, further, and coordinate work with digital media currently done by individuals across multiple departments at Iowa State University. Its website is widely cited for its resources to assist those interested in new media studies.
Readership: 23,376 visits per month
Research: Grants (Recent)
- Liberal Arts and Sciences Computer Advisory Committee. “Enabling Student High-Definition Multimedia Production.” Principal investigator, 2009. ($7,280)
Proposed upgrades for the ISU Studio for New Media to enable student collaborative high-definition video production, for coursework and extracurricular learning projects.
- Strengthening Communities Initiative. “A Sense of Community: Telling the Story
of Fayette County.” Co-Principal investigator with 3 University of Memphis co-PIs, 2008 ($18,000)
Requested funding to develop an online oral history project, interviewing people who remember the Civil Rights work performed among former sharecroppers and their families who lived in Tent City in the early 1960s.
- Liberal Arts and Sciences Computer Advisory Committee. “Teaching Advanced Communication
via Integrated Web Technologies.” Principal investigator, 2007. ($9,500)
Proposed improvements to permit an integration of the EServer Technical Communication Library into 117 sections of the English Department's ‘Advanced Communication’ courses.
- National Science Foundation. “Redesigning Engineering Curricula for the 21st Century.” Co-principal investigator, with 7 ISU co-PIs, 2006. ($2 million requested; not funded)
Proposed to assess and disseminate a comprehensive model to integrate technical
communication, ethics, leadership, economics, and creativity within an undergraduate engineering curriculum.
- Arizona Humanities Council. “Antislavery Literature Project: Voices of Slavery.” Co-principal investigator with 3 Arizona State University co-PIs, 2005. ($23,000 requested; not funded).
Requested funding for the development of streaming video performances of slave narratives, for open-access (free of charge) use in courses in history, literature, Civil Rights and other humanities topics.
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