Jason Swarts

Ranade, N., & Swarts, J. (2022). Infrastructural support of users' mediated potential. Communication Design Quarterly, 10(2), 10–21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3507857.3507859

Swarts, J. (2022). Signaling Context in Topic-Based Writing. TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION, 69(1), 40–53. https://doi.org/10.55177/tc812725

Swarts, J. (2022, August 11). Uses of Metadiscourse in Online Help. WRITTEN COMMUNICATION, Vol. 39. https://doi.org/10.1177/07410883221109241

Swarts, J. (2020). Addressing the speculative "you": Contextualizing the readers of documentation. SIGDOC 2020 - Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1145/3380851.3416749

Swarts, J. (2020). Technical Communication is a Social Medium. TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY, 29(4), 427–439. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2020.1774659

Swarts, J. (2020). Writing About Structure In Dita. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429059612-9

Swarts, J. (2020). Writing about structure in DITA. In Teaching Content Management in Technical and Professional Communication (pp. 155–175). Retrieved from http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85088625088&partnerID=MN8TOARS

Geisler, C., & Swarts, J. (2019). Coding Streams of Language: Techniques for the Systematic Coding of Text, Talk, and Other Verbal Data. https://doi.org/10.37514/pra-b.2019.0230

Ranade, N., & Swarts, J. (2019). Humanistic communication in information centric workplaces. Communication Design Quarterly, 7(4), 17–31. https://doi.org/10.1145/3363790.3363792

Swarts, J. (2019). Open-Source Software in the Sciences: The Challenge of User Support. JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION, 33(1), 60–90. https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651918780202

Swarts, J. (2018). Locating and Describing the Work of Technical Communication in an Online User Network. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION, 61(4), 356–371. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPC.2018.2870631

Swarts, J. (2018). Wicked, Incomplete, and Uncertain. https://doi.org/10.7330/9781607327622

Swarts, J. (2017). TOGETHER WITH TECHNOLOGY: Writing Review, Enculturation, and Technological Mediation. In Together with Technology: Writing Review, Enculturation, and Technological Mediation (pp. 1–179). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315223452

Swarts, J. (2016). Composing Networks: Writing Practices on Mobile Devices. WRITTEN COMMUNICATION, 33(4), 385–417. https://doi.org/10.1177/0741088316666807

Swarts, J. (2015). Context. In Keywords in Writing Studies (pp. 42–46). Retrieved from http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84952025057&partnerID=MN8TOARS

Swarts, J. (2015). Help is in the Helping: An Evaluation of Help Documentation in a Networked Age. Technical Communication Quarterly, 24(2), 164–187. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2015.1001298

Swarts, J. (2015). Network. In Keywords in Writing Studies (pp. 120–124). Retrieved from http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84951967824&partnerID=MN8TOARS

Read, S., & Swarts, J. (2015). Visualizing and Tracing: Research Methodologies for the Study of Networked, Sociotechnical Activity, Otherwise Known as Knowledge Work. Technical Communication Quarterly, 24(1), 14–44. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2015.975961

Swarts, J. (2015). What user forums teach us about documentation and the value added by technical communicators. Technical Communication, 62(1), 1–2. Retrieved from http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84930732773&partnerID=MN8TOARS

Swarts, J. (2014). The trouble with networks: Implications for the practice of help documentation. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Vol. 44, pp. 253–275. https://doi.org/10.2190/TW.44.3.c

Swarts, J. (2013). Being Somewhere: The Meaning(s) of Location in Mobile Rhetorical Action. Enculturation, 15. Retrieved from https://www.enculturation.net/being-somewhere

Swarts, J. (2013). How do work tools shape and organize the work of technical communication? In J. Johnson-Eilola & S. Selber (Eds.), Solving Problems in Technical Communication (pp. 146–164). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago.

Swarts, J. (2012). Communication design. Communication Design Quarterly, 1(1), 12–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2448917.2448920

Swarts, J. (2012). New modes of help: Best practices for instructional video. Technical Communication, 59(3), 195–206. Retrieved from http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84867553682&partnerID=MN8TOARS

Morain, M., & Swarts, J. (2012). YouTutorial: A Framework for Assessing Instructional Online Video. Technical Communication Quarterly, 21(1), 6–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2012.626690

Swarts, J. (2011). Technological Literacy as Network Building. Technical Communication Quarterly, 20(3), 274–302. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2011.578239

Swarts, J. (2010). Recycled Writing: Assembling Actor Networks From Reusable Content. JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION, 24(2), 127–163. https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651909353307

Swarts, J., & Kim, L. (2009). Guest Editors' Introduction: New Technological Spaces. Technical Communication Quarterly, 18(3), 211–223. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572250902941986

Swarts, J. (2009). The collaborative construction of 'fact' on wikipedia. SIGDOC'09 - Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, 281–288. https://doi.org/10.1145/1621995.1622051

Swarts, J., & Slattery, S. (2009). Usability testing in the writing classroom: Testing across a continuum of instrumentality. In S. Miller-Cochran & S. Rodrigo (Eds.), Rhetorically Rethinking Usability (pp. 191–212). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.

Swarts, J., & VanNorman, M. (2008). Effective information design for PDAs in veterinary medical education. JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL EDUCATION, 35(1), 118–128. https://doi.org/10.3138/jvme.35.1.118

Swarts, J. (2008). Information technologies as discursive agents: Methodological implications for the empirical study of knowledge work. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Vol. 38, pp. 301–329. https://doi.org/10.2190/tw.38.4.b

Swarts, J. (2008). Together with technology: Writing review, enculturation, and technological mediation. https://doi.org/10.2190/twt

Swarts, J. (2007). Mobility and Composition: The Architecture of Coherence in Non-places. TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY, 16(3), 279–309. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572250701291020

Swarts, J. (2007). Walking with texts: Using PDAs to manage textual information. In B. Hawk, D. Rieder, & O. Oviedo (Eds.), Digital Tools in Cultural Contexts: Implications of New Media (pp. 101–103). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota.

Swarts, J. (2006). Coherent fragments - The problem of mobility and genred information. WRITTEN COMMUNICATION, 23(2), 173–201. https://doi.org/10.1177/0741088306286393

Swarts, J. (2005). Deprivatization at Work: Mediating Technologies of Writing Review. In M. Nugent & D. Bell (Eds.), Toward Deprivatized Pedagogy (pp. 181–195). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.

Swarts, J. (2005). PDAs in medical settings: The importance of organization in PDA text design. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 48(2), 161–176. https://doi.org/10.1109/tpc.2005.849648

Swarts, J. (2004). Cooperative writing. Presented at the SIGDOC04: ACM 22nd Annual International Conference on Documentation 2004. https://doi.org/10.1145/1026533.1026555

Swarts, J. (2004). Cooperative writing: Achieving coordination together and apart. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Design of Communication - The Engineering of Quality Documentation, 83–89. Retrieved from http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-13344269615&partnerID=MN8TOARS

Swarts, J. (2004). Technological mediation of document review - The use of textual replay in two organizations. JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION, 18(3), 328–360. https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651904264037

Swarts, J. (2004). Textual grounding: How people turn texts into tools. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Vol. 34, pp. 67–89. https://doi.org/10.2190/eg0c-quey-f9fk-2v0d

Swarts, J. (2003). Writer training: Complementary models of document review in the classroom and at work. Proceedings/STC, Society for Technical Communication Annual Conference, 214–219. Retrieved from http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0038602708&partnerID=MN8TOARS

Swarts, J., & Odell, L. (2001). Rethinking the evaluation of writing in engineering courses. Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, 1. Retrieved from http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0035201832&partnerID=MN8TOARS

Swarts, J. (2001). Speaking in Tongues: Coordinating Multiliterate Work of Tutors and Students Across Disciplines. Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, 5(2), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.37514/lld-j.2001.5.2.03

Swarts, J. (2000). Document collaboration and tacit knowledge. IPCC/SIGDOC 2000: Technology and Teamwork - Proceedings, IEEE Professional Communication Society International Professional Communication Conference and ACM Special Interest Group on Documentation Conference, 407–418. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2000.887298

Geisler, C., Rogers, E. H., & Swarts, J. (1999). The virtue of virtual objects. Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. Presented at the European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW Conference), Copenhagen, Denmark.

Hatmaker, E., Herstad, S., Nugent, M. R., Prothers, L., Strickland, R., & Swarts, J. (1997). Postmodern pedagogies and the death of civic humanism. Social Epistemology, 11(3-4), 339–348. https://doi.org/10.1080/02691729708578852