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Reddit’s “Explain Like I’m Five”: Technical Descriptions in the Wild

Ehren Helmut PflugfelderOregon State UniversityCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 25-41 | Published online: 06 Dec 2016

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T. Scott Randall. (2021) Taking the Tactical Out of Technical: A Reassessment of Tactical Technical Communication. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 52:1, pages 3-18.
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Junzhe Zhu, Elizabeth Wickes & John R. Gallagher. (2021) A machine learning algorithm for sorting online comments via topic modeling. Communication Design Quarterly 9:2, pages 4-14.
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Prashant Rajan. (2020) Making-Do on the Margins: Organizing Resource Seeking and Rhetorical Agency in Communities During Grassroots Entrepreneurship. Journal of Business and Technical Communication 35:2, pages 254-292.
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Jacob D. Richter. (2021) Writing With Reddiquette: Networked Agonism and Structured Deliberation in Networked Communities. Computers and Composition 59, pages 102627.
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Ryan P. Shepherd. (2020) Gaming Reddit’s Algorithm: r/the_donald, Amplification, and the Rhetoric of Sorting. Computers and Composition 56, pages 102572.
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Chris Lam & Ellen Biggerstaff. (2019) Finding Stories in the Threads: Can Technical Communication Students Leverage User-Generated Content to Gain Subject-Matter Familiarity?. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 62:4, pages 334-350.
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