A rhetoric of electronic instruction sets

Stuart A. Selber

doi:10.1080/10572250903559340

A rhetoric of electronic instruction sets

Stuart A. Selber

English

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	95-117
Number of pages	23
Journal	Technical Communication Quarterly
Volume	19
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10572250903559340
State	Published - Apr 2010

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Communication

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