Research and Theory

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Cognitive Psychology

Carroll, John M. (ed.). Interfacing Thought: Cognitive Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987.

Daelemans, Walter and Antal van den Bosch. Memory-Based Language Processing. Cambridge , UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Fischler, Martin and Oscar Firschein. Intelligence: the Eye, the Brain, and the Computer. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1987.

Gardner, Howard. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligence. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1983.

Goldstein, E. Bruce. Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience, 2nd ed. Wadsworth Publishing, 2007.

Gregory, R. L. Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Herriot, P. An Introduction to the Psychology of Language. London, UK: Methuen, 1970.

Smith, Edward E. and Stephen M. Kosslyn. Cognitive Psychology: Mind and Brain. Prentice Hall, 2006.

Solso, Robert L., Otto H. MacLin, and M. Kimberly MacLin. Cognitive Psychology, 8th ed. Allyn & Bacon, 2007.

Sternberg, Robert J. Cognitive Psychology, 5th ed. Wadsworth Publishing, 2008.

Stevens, Albert and Dedre Gentner (eds.). Mental Models. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1983.

Van Dijk, Teun A. and W. Kintsch. Strategies of Discourse Comprehension. New York, NY: Academic Press, 1983.

Communication

Connors, Robert. Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.

Doheny-Farina, Stephen (ed.). Effective Documentation: What We Have Learned from Research. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988.

Griffin, Emory A. A First Look at Communication Theory, 7th ed. Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2008.

Kellogg, Ronald T. The Psychology of Writing. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Littlejohn, Stephen J. and Karen A. Foss. Theories of Human Communication, 9th ed. Wadsworth Publishing, 2007.

Miller, Katherine. Communication Theories: Perspectives, Processes, and Contexts. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Shea, Renee H., Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin Aufses. The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing and Rhetoric. Bedford/St.Martin’s, 2007.

Spilka, Rachel. Writing in the Workplace: New Research Perspectives. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.

Ulijn, Jan M., and Judith B. Strother. Communicating in Business and Technology: From Psycholinguistic Theory to International Practice. Berne, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 1995.

Van Dijk, Teun A. Discourse and Context: A Sociocognitive Approach. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

West, Richard. Introducing Communication Theory: Analysis and Application, 3rd ed. McGraw-Hill, 2007.

Cultural/Language

Cole, Michael. Cultural Psychology: A Once and Future Discipline. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Holland, Dorothy and Naomi Quinn (ed.). Cultural Models in Language and Thought. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Shweder, Richard A. and Robert A. LeVine (ed.). Culture Theory: Essays on the Mind, Self, and Emotion. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Warren, Thomas L. Cross-Cultural Communication: Perspectives in Theory and Practice. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing, 2005.

Document Design

Campbell, K.S. Coherence, Continuity, and Cohesion: Theoretical Foundations for Document Design. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995.

Ethnography

Atkinson, Paul A. et al. Handbook of Ethnography. London, UK: Sage Publications, 2007.

Francis, David and Stephen Hester. An Invitation to Ethnomethodology: Language, Society and Interaction. London, UK: Sage Publications, 2004.

Wolcott, Harry F. Ethnography: A Way of Seeing, 2nd ed. AltaMira Press, 2008.

General

Tinker, Miles. Bases for Effective Reading. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1965.

Genres

Berkenkotter, C and T.N. Huckin. Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Communication: Cognition/Culture/Power. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995.

Frow, John. Genre (The New Technical Idiom). New York, NY: Routledge, 2005.

Swales, John. Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

High Performance Teams

Eikenberry, K. 7 Key Dimensions of High Performance Teams. http://ezinearticles.com/?7-Key-Dimensions-of-High-Performance-Teams&id=2315, 1997.

Musselwhite, C. Building and Leading High Performance Teams. http://www.inc.com/resources/leadership/articles/20070101/musselwhite.html, 2007.

Smith, L. 3 Ways to Create a High-Performance Team. http://ezinearticles.com/?3-Ways-to-Create-a-High-Performance-Team&id=194172, 2005.

Team Building Tips. How to Delegate Effectively. http://www.teambuildingtips.com/team-building-articles/team-management/how-to-delegate-effectively.html.

Instructional Design

Reigeluth, C.M. (ed.). Instructional Design Theories and Models: An Overview of Their Current Status. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1983.

Linguistics

Cook, Guy. Applied Linguistics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Davies, Alan. An Introduction to Applied Linguistics. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

Davies, Alan and Catherine Elder (eds.). The Handbook of Applied Linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell, 2006.

Kaplan, Robert B. The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, USA, 2005.

Motives

D’Andrade, Roy and Claudia Strauss (eds.). Human Motives and Cultural Models. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Reasoning

Wasson, P. C., and P.N. Johnson-Laird. Psychology of Reasoning: Structure and Content. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1972.

Rhetoric

Bain, Alexander. English Composition and Rhetoric. BookSurge Publishing, 2001.

Berlin, J. Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.

Borchers, Timothy A. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Wadsworth Publishing, 2005.

Connor, Ulla. Contrastive Rhetoric: Cross-Cultural Aspects of Second-Language Writing. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Hauser, Gerald A. Introduction to Rhetorical Theory, 2nd ed. Waveland Press, 2002.

Hill, Charles A. and Marguerite Helmers (ed.). Defining Visual Rhetorics. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.

Kostelnick, Charles and Michael Hassett. Shaping Information: The Rhetoric of Visual Conventions. Southern Illinois University Press, 2003.

Taxonomies

Stewart, Darin L. Building Enterprise Taxonomies. Mokita Press, 2008.

Visual

Gibson, James J. The Perception of the Visual World. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1950.

Gregory, R. L. The Artful Eye. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995.

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