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We examine the rhetorical activity employed within software development communities in code texts. For technical communicators, the rhetoricity of code is crucial for the development of more effective code and documentation. When we understand that code is a collection of rhetorical decisions about how to engage those machinic processes, we can better attend to the significance and nuance of those decisions and their impact on potential user activities.

Carolina. He research centers around the issues of intangible asset creation and extraction, in addition to information literacy. As part of this, he has considered how innovation is facilitated using emergent approaches, and how this innovation can be used to embolden an organization's strategic intentions. This research has been conducted with nonprofit groups-including refugee advocates, churches, and libraries. Recognizing the value in intangible assets, Dr. Freeburg has looked to his own classrooms as places where students can begin to recognize their unique contributions to society and their current and future professions.

This project, like so many of the cases discussed in the following pages, could not have been possible without myriad collaborators, colleagues, and mentors, all of whom have profoundly impacted my life through their assistance and friendship. I cannot overstate the gratitude I feel for all the time, energy, and consideration that has been shared with me. At the same time, I recognize my words here will be inadequate in acknowledging everyone who has helped me and in describing the impact they have had on me and this book. I want to begin by offering my deepest thanks to Nancy Penrose, who took a chance on me when I was a struggling master's student who felt ambivalent toward writing and its study. At the time, I did not know just how significantly my life would change by turning my focus toward rhetoric and composition. Without Nancy's support and patience with my gaining a grasp of the field, I would never have been able to pursue this career trajectory. I also owe a considerable debt to the faculty with whom I studied in the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media doctoral program at North Carolina State University; their guidance helped me develop the ideas central to my argument throughout this book. David M. Rieder offered invaluable and enthusiastic input throughout my time in the program. Alongside David, Susan Miller-Cochran, Jason Swarts, and Kenneth Zagacki all shared with me their incredible insight and feedback on my dissertation, which served as an early attempt at articulating my argument in this book. In addition, the courses I took with

approved Centers and serves as the organizing infrastructure for resources and supports directly applied to faculty research teams, equipping them in the art and science of writing winning grant proposals. Dr. Kunz received her PhD in psychology at Louisiana State University. She is a licensed psychologist for children and adolescents, and her areas of professional expertise include behavior management for children and adolescents with behavioral and social-emotional challenges and attention deficits, academic assessment and intervention for children and adolescents with academic challenges, professional development and instructional coaching for adults who teach and support children, parent training, school-based consultation, and strengthening positive home-school partnerships. Dr. Kunz has a long-standing history of conducting interdisciplinary research, and she has secured more than $23 million as PI/Co-PI for large-scale research funded nationally or through state and foundation funding.