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Design Research Quarterly Volume 2, Issue 4 Design Research Society DRS Digital Library Design Research Quarterly DRS Archive 1-10-2007 Design Research Quarterly Volume 2, Issue 4 Peter Storkerson Follow this and additional works at: https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/design-research-quarterly Recommended Citation Storkerson, Peter, "Design Research Quarterly Volume 2, Issue 4" (2007). Design Research Quarterly. 5. https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/design-research-quarterly/5 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the DRS Archive at DRS Digital Library. It has been accepted for inclusion in Design Research Quarterly by an authorized administrator of DRS Digital Library. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Emerging Trends in Design Research V.2:4 October, 2007 www.designresearchsociety.org Design Research Society 12-15 November, 2007 ISSN 1752-8445 Hong Kong Polytechnic Confessions of a Journal Editor Jeffrey J. Williams Carnegie Mellon University Editor, Minnesota Review Want to know what an editor is really thinking when Table of Contents: he’s reading that article you submitted? Articles: It’s good that people can’t hear me it better. Nowadays there is very little 1 Confessions of a Journal Editor when I edit their writing. “Blah blah serious editing in academe. It’s a scan- Jeffrey J. Williams blah.” “Is this a garbled translation dal, and I think we should change it. (reprinted from The Chronicle of Higher from the Cyrolean?” “Did you reread Editing, like sending thank-you Education) your writing? I’m not your mother.” cards, is one of those things that every- “Urrrh.” It wouldn’t be polite. one acknowledges is a good idea but 4 DRS 2008 Conference: Undisciplined! I have edited a literary and cultur- that few people do. It takes time and Abstracts deadline: Nov. 15 al-studies journal for the past 15 years, you don’t reap much reward, certain- and it’s hard not to feel some irritation ly not equivalent to the time. There Listings: when it seems I pay more attention to is probably not enough attention to 7 New Fellow of the Design Research other people’s words than they do. teaching writing in graduate school, Society Of course some academic writing but at least you have plenty of models Nigel Cross is as elegant as the drape of Armani, and plenty of chances to practice. and one can’t expect everyone to write Models of editing are scarce — that 8 Current Research in Design: Tables of as well as Louis Menand. But if you is, unless you work with commercial Contents from Leading pick up a typical article in an academic presses or magazines. There, editors Design Journals journal, what happens? Does it put the really edit. We think of those venues Kristi Brownfield ding in plodding? as shallow slaves to the market, but I don’t think it’s because people have they often pay more attention to the 16 Upcoming Events Worldwide nothing to say but because they don’t words and ideas than we do. They nev- Artemis Yagou manage to corral what they want to er lose sight of their audience, holding say, and they don’t get any instruction. the quaint assumption that writing is Call for Papers I don’t mean copy editing, although actually written for people — not for 6 Design Research Quarterly that’s faded from the days when two tenure or a CV, both of whom are tone- Case Studeis in Design Research: copy editors would sit in an office and deaf. Knowledge and Inquiry read the text backwards to glean any Editing can sometimes be overbear- mistakes. ing, or twist what you want to say, but 16 AIEDAM Journal (Artificial Intelligence I mean editing in the style of Max most editing is sympathetic. The best for Engineering Design, Analysis and Perkins, editing that engages the text editing is like ventriloquism. It makes Manufacturing) at hand, pares it, kneads it, and makes the edited text sound exactly like you, but better. Shorter, sharper, more DRQ-DRS orderly. It’s like getting a transcript 2 Publication information 17 Membership information Continued p. 5 Q Design Research Quarterly Publication Information Editor: Editorial Advisory Board: Dr. Peter Storkerson Prof. Ken Friedman, Chair Southern Illinois University, USA Norwegian School of Management, Norway and Danmarks Designskole, Denmark Associate Editors: Dr. Antti Ainamo Dr. Vesna Popovic Helsinki School of Economics, Finland Queensland University of Technology, Australia Prof. Tevfik Balcioglu Dr. Kristina Niedderer Izmir University of Economics, Turkey Hertfordshire University, UK Prof. Lin-Lin Chen Dr. Artemis Yagou National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan AKTO Art and Design, Greece Prof. Nigel Cross Open University, UK Assistant Editor Prof. Clive Dilnot Kristi Brownfield Parsons The New School for Design, USA Southern Illinois University, USA Dr. Troels Degn Johansson Denmark’s Design School, Denmark Prof. Pekka Korvenmaa Design Research Quarterly is is a peer reviewed journal, published University of Art and Design, University of Art and Design, in January, April, July and October by the Design Research Society. Finland Prof. Kun-Pyo Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Dr. Joao Lutz Copyrights: UniverCidade, Brazil Design Research Quarterly and its contents are published under Prof. Sanjoy Mazumdar the Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial - NoDerivs 3.0 University of California at Irvine, USA License. < http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ > Prof. Donald Norman You are free to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the journal or Nielsen Norman Group and Northwestern University, USA journal articles. Under the following conditions: Prof. Sharon Poggenpohl 1 Attribution Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China e You must attribute work in the manner specified by the author or Prof. M.P. Ranjan licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you National Institute of Design, India or your use of the work). Dr. Elizabeth B.-N. 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For information regarding submissions, contact Peter Storkerson, [email protected] Design Research Quarterly 2:4 Oct. 2007 – 2 – www.designresearchsociety.org From the Editor Peter Storkerson Citations, Clarity, Plagiarism and Writing Skill The new president of Southern Illinois University faced and In US, higher education, general literacy is often survived charges of plagiarism in his doctoral dissertation addressed through ‘writing across the curriculum’: ‘writing and masters thesis. This was a brief episode (from August to learn’ and ‘writing in the disciplines’. Writing to learn to October 2007), but it was unpleasant. As is almost always develops skills through assignments including short essays the case, the exoneration was less than complete, and every- and journals, while writing in the disciplines focuses on one involved was to some degree tainted. An internal panel the distinct vocabularies and usages of different disciplines found that the works were within the accepted style at the (Purdue University Online Writing Lab). These programs time when they were written but sloppy by current comput- are often presented through campus wide writing and sup- er/internet age standards. port centers, which are outside of the normal academic sub- jects and are often treated as remedial. Poshard’s usage included an informal style also used by some of Insofar as writing is addressed within design, it is often his contemporaries.…There are many instances in the disserta- addressed as a liberal art (Marks, 2004), or as limited by the tion where words of others are present in a continuous flow with contexts of specific design projects, briefs, vitae, or client Poshard’s own words, so readers cannot distinguish between communications. This piecemeal approach does not suit sources. Many times, a citation including a page number for the the need, because it is not comprehensive, provides prac- source is provided, consistent with the informal style. There also tice but no meta-knowledge, and because the appearance of are several instances of mistakes within this style, which Poshard writing, ad hoc, in the curriculum supports students’ pre- acknowledges as careless or misremembering. … conceptions and instructors’ prejudices toward writing as (Associated Press, 2007). ‘outside design’. These are generalizations and there are certainly excep- This episode points to a conundrum in scholarship: how tions, some highly notable (see Carnegie Mellon Universi- to simultaneously maintain documentation, communica- ty, 2007). Persons in different design fields and educational tive clarity and the presentation of one’s own voice. Eminent systems will know whether these comments are applicable scholars are able to omit references that would be required to them. of others. It is as if over a career, one comes to accrete, from various sources, some of the ideas and language that one All of this leaves two questions: ‘owns’. e Do certain kinds of writing merit being addressed as sub- As a student and early in one’s career, it may be impor- jects in themselves within design curricula? tant to demonstrate literacy and grounding and to use the e Could ‘design of writing’ be counted within the ambit of display thereof to stake-out an area of research.
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