Via TechRhet comes this call for papers:

The editors of Rhetorically Rethinking Usability: Theories, Practices, and
Methodologies are seeking 15-25 page articles for a collection discussing
how usability studies have impacted theory and practice in writing and
English studies.

The editors invite submissions from a wide range of topic areas and
perspectives. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, usability
and its relationship to:

• Rhetorical situatedness
• Writing practices
• Pedagogical/Teaching practices
• Distance learning
• Hybrid/blended classes
• Learning objects
• Writing software
• Access issues, including language, format, and/or media
• Adoption/adaptation of technologies
• Critical literacies
• Assessment methodologies
• Research practices, theories, and methods
• Redefining usability and its relationship to rhetoric/writing
• Course Design

The editors are particularly interested in pieces that explore how these
issues might challenge conventional categorizations and/or definitions of
usability and rhetoric/writing in current scholarship and expand
definitions, practices, theories, and methodologies in these disciplines.
Articles might consider current scholarly work on usability from a variety
of fields, to include educational technology, distance learning, technical
communication, computers and writing, and usability engineering, among
others.

500-word abstract: October 1, 2004

Draft of manuscript: January 10, 2005

Final manuscript: August 1, 2005

Please send abstracts or questions to:

Susan Kay Miller, Co-Editor

Department of English

Mesa Community College

1833 W. Southern Avenue

Mesa, Arizona 85202

skmiller@mail.mc.maricopa.edu

Shelley Rodrigo, Co-Editor

Department of English

Mesa Community College

1833 W. Southern Avenue

Mesa, Arizona 85202

rrodrigo@mail.mc.maricopa.edu