Steve Benninghoff

Assistant Professor
Technical Communication
Dept. of English Language & Literature,
Eastern Michigan University
613-L Pray-Harrold, 487-0135
steve.benninghoff@emich.edu
  

Teaching
Winter 2008 - Office Hours: PH 613-L MW 11:00-12:00, 2:00-3:00,
           & by appt.,(email to set up online chats)
English 324, Principles of Technical Communication
(MW 12:30-1:45 PH 314)

English 424, Technical Writing
(MW 5:00-6:15 PH 312)

English 524, Advanced Technical Writing & Research
(M 7:00-9:40 PH 312)

Fall 2007 - Office Hours: PH 613-L TTH 11:00-12:00, 2:00-3:00,
           & by appt.,(email to set up online chats)
English 324, Principles of Technical Communication
(TTh 12:30-1:45 PH 314)

English 424, Technical Writing
(TTh 3:30-4:45 PH 314)

Spring 2007 - Office Hours: PH 613-L 11:40-12:10 TTH, & by appt.,
           (email to set up online chats)
English 324, Principles of Technical Communication
(TTh 9:00-11:40 PH 314) |

Winter 2007 - Office Hours: PH 613-L 1-3 Mon, Thurs, & by appt.,
           (email to set up online chats)
English 427, Technical Editing
(TTh 3:30-4:45 PH 312) |
English 484, Seminar in Written Communication
(TTh 5:00-6:15 PH 312) |
English 524, Advanced Technical Writing & Research
(TTh 7:00-9:45 PH 312)
 
Fall 2006 - Office Hours: PH 613-L 1-3 TTh & by appt.,
           (email to set up online chats)
English 324, Principles of Technical Communication
(online -- 24-7) |
English 424, Technical Writing
(TTh 3:30-4:45 PH 312) |
English 428, Writing Computer Documentation
(TTh 5:00-6:15 PH 312)
 
Winter 2006 - Office Hours: PH 613-L 1-4 TTh & by appt., Online Office Hour in Online Class Chat Space tba
English 324, Principles of Technical Communication
(online -- 24-7) |
English 424, Technical Writing
(TTh 4:00-5:15 PH 312) |
English 427, Technical Editing
(TTh 5:30-6:45 PH 312)
 
Fall 2005
English 324, Principles of Technical Communication
(online -- 24-7) |
English 424, Technical Writing
(TTh 4:00-5:15 PH 312) |
English 428, Writing Computer Documentation
(TTh 5:30-6:45 PH 312)
 
Winter 2005
English 328, Writing, Style & Technology
(MWF 1:00-1:50 PH 312) |
English 424, Technical Writing
(MW 4:00-5:15 PH 312) |
English 427, Technical Editing
(MW 5:30-6:45 PH 312)
 
Fall 2004
English 324, Principles of Technical Communication (MWF 1:00-1:50 PH 314) |
English 424, Technical Writing (MWF 2:00-2:50 PH 312) |
English 428, Computer Documentation (MW 5:30-6:45 PH 312)
 
Summer 2004
English 324, Principles of Technical Communication
MTTh 8:30-10:20 Pray-Harrold 312
 

Winter 2004
English 424, Technical Writing
Section 1 MW 4:00-5:15 Pray-Harrold 312
 
English 427, Technical Editing
Section 1 MW 5:15-6:45 Pray-Harrold 312
 
English 328, Writing, Technology & Style
Section 4 MWF 1:00-1:50 Pray-Harrold 312
 
Fall 2003
English 328, Writing, Technology & Style
Section 1 MWF 9:00-9:50 Pray-Harrold 314
English 324, Technical Communication
Section 2 MWF 11:00-11:50 Pray-Harrold 312
Section 3 MWF 1:00-1:50 Pray-Harrold 314
 
Winter 2003
English 328, Writing, Technology & Style
Section 1 MWF 9:00-9:50 Pray-Harrold 314
English 324, Technical Communication
Section 2 MWF 11:00-11:50 Pray-Harrold 312
Section 3 MWF 1:00-1:50 Pray-Harrold 314
 
Fall 2002
English 121, Research Writing
TR 5:00-6:15 Pray-Harrold 618
English 324, Technical Communication
TR 9:30-10:45 Pray-Harrold 314
TR 2:00-3:15 Pray-Harrold 314

Web & Writing Resources

Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide, 1st Ed., 3 locations: i, ii, iii : 2nd Edition [It's very instructive to see the changes between editions.] ♦ Mavens' Word of the Day ♦ Misuse (?) of 'Literally' ♦ LEO: Literacy Education Online--The Write Place Catalog ♦ Online Tech Writing: The online edition of McMurrey's Power Tools for Technical Communication ♦ UW Humanities: Abstract Writing Tips ♦ RPI Writing Center: Abstracts


Student Documentation Page: Technical & Professional Writing Program
A permanent home for our students' documentation projects. Our class tutorials are designed to help user's adapt software to their communication/design needs, not force the conceptions of the software developers on them.

Sample Web Site Design
An example of how consistent design grids and navigational schemes allow users to know where they are in a site and know where to look for particular kinds of information.

Simple Text Formatting with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Example
An example of some text format features we take for granted with Word Processors, and how they are done with CSS.

A Simple Image Map :: Owls & their Vision
An example of an image map, where different areas of a picture file become web links--how many whole sites are created with graphics.

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Workshop
A CSS Workshop I did at the 2004 Computers and Writing Conference in Hawaii, with Steven D. Krause and Bill Hart-Davidson. The tutorial presented the basic concepts of CSS, but then showed how you can use CSS to teach style rhetorically--i.e. how document design is contextual, situational, political, etc.

SFTP (Filezilla) Install and Use Help Page
This page is a bit of a walkthrough written for EMU students new to uploading files to servers like people.emich.edu, where our students can put their web pages.

One OpenSource (free) Way to Create PDF Files
This page is a modified crib of Ken Chiro's set of instructions for how to do this. I'm sure they need tested and cleaned up, but something's better than nothing.

Web Page Layout: An HTML Table Tutorial
This page is part of an HTML Workshop for Writing Teachers I participated in with a squad of tech-oriented writing and tech comm teachers. My portion of the workshop was to get our participants beyond the very minimal design capabilities of HTML and thinking about page layout, and a brief intro to some strategies of using tables to create different layouts for a variety of purposes.
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