Readings

Suggested Readings

The readings here supplement the Profcomm course content. Listed below are suggested “core” readings as well as additional readings from specific courses. Students, be sure to consult your specific course syllabus for readings required for your course.

Some of the readings below are housed in the University of Arizona library's Electronic Reserves. To access those readings, follow the link and search under English 307 sections 1-8. You will need to know the password, which you can obtain from your instructor. If you are accessing these readings but are not currently taking a Profcomm course, please email us for the password.

If your course is using the Workplace™ client, the readings are available in the “Reading Room." You will need a password to sign on to Workplace™ to access those readings.

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Readings (by content and unit)

General Professional Communication

Locker, Kitty. Business and Administrative Communication.
Fourth ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Markel, Mike. "Proposals." Technical Communication. Fourth ed. New York:
St. Martin's, 1996.

McMurray, David A. “Business Correspondence: Overview.” Online Technical Writing Course Guide (the online textbook for online technical communication courses at Austin Community College and other institutions worldwide). http://www.io.com/~hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml/genlett.html 12 June 2001.

Unit 1

“The Profcomm Center and You.”

“English 307 Course Goals."

“Downloading and Using Workplace™.”

Foss, Sonja. "The Nature of Rhetorical Criticism." Rhetorical Criticism. Second ed. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland, 1989. 3-9.

Unit 2

Locker, Kitty. "Planning, Proposing, and Researching Reports." Business and Administrative Communication.
Fourth ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Markel, Mike. "Proposals." Technical Communication. Fourth ed. New York:
St. Martin's, 1996.

The Foundation Center. “Proposal Writing Short Course.” http://fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html 12 June 2001.

Unit 3

Locker, Kitty. "Analyzing Data and Writing Reports." Business and Administrative Communication.
Fourth ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Mobile Computing. “How to Present Like a Pro” November, 2000. http://www.mobilecomputing.com/printarchives.cgi?76 12 June 2001.

Unit 4

Locker, Kitty. Business and Administrative Communication. Fourth ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Additional Course Readings

Arnold, Jonathan and Pablo Gutierrez "Without Liberty and Justice for All: An investigative report into some of Chicago’s day labor agencies." Columbia Chronicle Columbia College Chicago. May 30, 2000. http://www.ccchronicle.com/back/00may30/news5.html 12 June 2001.

Beason, Larry. "Ethos and Errors: How Business People React to Errors." CCC 53.1 September 2001: 33-64.

Bernstein, Aaron. "Racism in the Workplace." Business Week 30 July 2001: 64-68.

Bull, Chris. "No ENDA in Sight?" Advocate 13 May 97: 40-43.

Cloud, John. "Harassed or Hazed." Time 16 March 98: 55-56

Elliott, Mark and Elisabeth King. “Labor Market Leverage: Sectoral Employment Field Report.” Workforce Development 34 (Winter) 1999. (PDF document) http://www.ppv.org/pdffiles/labormarketsectoral.pdf 12 June 2001.

Foss, Sonja. "The Nature of Rhetorical Criticism." Rhetorical Criticism. Second ed. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland, 1989. 3-9.

Hamilton, Joan O’C. “The New Workplace.” Business Week 1996. Online http://www.businessweek.com/1996/18/b34731.htm 12 June 2001.

“Introduction.” On the Job: Design and the American Office. Donald Albrecht and Chrysanthe B. Broikos eds. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001. 16-29.

Katz, Steven B. "The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust." College English 54.3 March 1992: 255-275.

Labich, Kenneth. "No More Crude at Texaco." Fortune 6 September 1999: 205-10

Macedo, Donaldo. "Our Uncommon Culture: The Politics of Race, Class, Gender, and Language. Literacies of Power. Boulder: Westview, 1994. 91-100.

Miller, Diane. "And the Ban Played On." Freedom to Differ. New York: NYUP, 1998: 83-86 ;101-08.

Mitchell, Danielle. A Welcome Letter. Profcomm 21 August 01

Noel, Peter, and Amanda Ward. "Riding Gloria" Village Voice 19 September 2000: 48-51

Patton, Phil. “Technology in the Office: Individual Power and Collective Standards.” On the Job: Design and the American Office. Donald Albrecht and Chrysanthe B. Broikos eds. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001. 105-118.

Sbraga, Tamara, and William O`Donohue. "Sexual Harassment." from Annual Review of Sex Research 11 (200): 258-86.

Selfe, Cynthia L., and Richard Selfe, Jr. "The Politics of the Interface: Power and Its exercise in Electronic Contact Zones." CCC 45.4/December 1994: 480-504.

Shulman, Steven. "The Political Economy of Labor Market Discrimination: A Classroom-Friendly Preentation of the Theory." Review of Black Political Economy 24.4 (Spring 96): 47-65.

Sproull, Lee and Sara Keisler. "Computers, Networks, and Work." Literacy, Technology, and Society. Eds. Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997. 87-94.

Taylor, Frederick. “The Fundamentals of Scientific Management.” The Principles of Scientific Management. http://melbecon.unimelb.edu.au/het/taylor/sciman.htm#Ch1 12 June 2001.

Zalesne, Deborah. "When Your Harasser Is Another Man." Gay and Lesbian Review 8.1 (Jan/Feb 2000): 19-22.