Why teach a fish to swim? A design-based research study incorporating social media into the professional writing curriculum to shape professional practice and identity

Research has found that professional communicators are not prepared for the challenges that social media presents and face a number of barriers due to a lack of social media knowledge and skills. Correspondingly, higher education has failed to include enough social media and online content to provide learners with the necessary skills for professional practice. Furthermore, the neoliberal objective to shape a flexible workforce has engendered a new form of professionalism that tasks individuals with developing an incorporated branded self. Within the framework of the higher education curriculum, social media can perform two roles for learners: foster workforce competences and provide an authentic community of practice to comodify their brand. The issue for educators is that no comprehensive studies have fully examined the incorporation of a social media component into a professional writing course, identifying the barriers, skills, and processes that facilitate or foster the professionalization of the tools for learners and enable them to use these technologies both appropriately and strategically. This dissertation employed a design-based research methodology to systematically study how to design an effective learning environment for the integration of social media technologies and addressed the following research questions: • What problems might educators face when integrating social media practices into the curriculum? • How can social media technologies facilitate professional identity formation to bridge the transition from the everyday practices of learners to professional practices? The study spanned the time period 2012-2016 and involved the developing, testing, investigating, and refining of a yearlong professional writing course, which included the tools, curriculum, activities, software, and theoretical constructs for the course design (Reeves, 2006, p. 58). The results indicated that students lacked agency on social networks and required guidance when articulating modes of online authenticity. The final iteration of the course design effectively produced a virtual community of practice, as measured through learning analytics, and provided a means to shape professional social media practices and foster professional identity

У воєнний час всі бренди мають бути об’єднані метою

The concepts of "brand thinking" and "approaches to communication" are considered, the main goals for brand development are summarized, the conditions for creating a brand during military operations are characterized, the methods of product branding are described, and the global experience of brand creation is analyzed.Розглянуто поняття "мислення бренду" та "підходи до комунікації", узагальнено основні цілі для розвитку бренду, охарактеризовано умови для створення бренду під час військових дій, описано методи брендування продуктів, проаналізовано світовий досвід створення брендів

Controlling the feature angularity of extruded aluminum products : an efficient methodology for manufacturing process improvement

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1994, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (p. 118).by Stephen M. Novakovich.M.S

Концентрационные автоколебания в процессах окислительного карбонилирования непредельных соединений.1. Процессы окислительного карбонилирования ацетилена и фенилацетилена

This review is devoted to the results of concentrations oscillations phenomena study observed in the unsaturated compounds oxidative carbonylation reactions. These homogeneous reactions are catalyzed by metal complexes. The history of oscillations processes study is described, there theoretical and practical significance underlined. The wide description of the processes studying at the Department of chemical technology of basic organic synthesis in last years is brought. The first part of review is devoted to acetylene and phenylacetylene oxidative carbonylation processes describing.Данный обзор посвящен результатам изучения феномена концентрационных колебаний в реакциях окислительного карбонилирования непредельных соединений, протекающих в условиях гомогенного металлокомплексного катализа. Описана история изучения колебательных процессов, подчеркнуто их значение для теории и практики, дано развернутое описание процессов, изучаемых на кафедре ХТООС МИТХТ в последние годы. Первая часть обзора посвящена описанию процессов окислительного карбонилирования ацетилена и фенилацетилена

Moving past: probing the agency and affect of recordkeeping in individual and community lives in post-conflict Croatia

Reporting on ongoing research, this paper reviews stories, drawn from recent literature as well as gathered through ethnographic research, that people tell about records and recordkeeping during and since the Yugoslav Wars. It focuses on what these stories reveal of the agency and affect of recordkeeping in individual and community lives, particularly in Croatia. The paper concludes with a contemplation of what might be learned from such an approach for the development of recordkeeping infrastructures that can anticipate, avert or alleviate some of the ways in which records and recordkeeping continue to traumatize or target the vulnerable, and frustrate and prevent the human and societal need to "move forward," if not "move past." © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht

April Fool\u27s Day

Josip Novakovich, Author, April Fool\u27s Day: A Novel, and Fellow, Black Mountain Institute, on his novels set in his native Croatia

Josip Novakovich, 27th Annual ODU Literary Festival

Josip Novakovich moved to the US from Croatia at the age of twenty. His work depicts the struggles of immigrants in which he draws from his own experience. Writing in multiple genres of non-fiction, short-stories, and novels, his work explores social diversity, cultural dissolution, and the struggles of writing in a second language. His most recent work includes: April Fool’s Day (novel, 2004), Apricots from Chernobyl: Narratives (narrative essays, 1995), Plum Brandy: Croation Journeys (narrative essays, 2003), Yolk (short stories, 1995), and Salvation and Other Disasters (short stories, 1998). For his work, Novakovich received the Whiting Writer’s Award (1997), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1999), two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1991, 2002), and other citations