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Cameron Mozafari

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Lecturer, English

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Research Expertise

Language, Writing and Rhetoric

Cameron Mozafari is welcomed back to UMD after graduating in 2019 and completing his dissertation “The Feeling of Persuasion: A Cognitive Rhetorical Perspective on the Rhetorical Appeal” under the direction of Drs. Michael Israel and Vessela Valiavitcharska.

Dr. Mozafari has published his work in collaborative teams in such journals as Communication Design Quarterly and Textual Cultures. At Central New Mexico Community College, Dr. Mozafari has taught basic and first-year writing. At UMD, he taught courses on style, rhetorical theory, grammar, and academic writing.

Dr. Mozafari also served as a member of the Academic Writing administrative team from 2015 to 2017, and in 2015, he was selected for the James A. Robinson Award for Teaching Excellence.

Publications

"Communicating Complexity in Transdisciplinary Science Teams for Policy: Applied Stasis Theory for Organizing and Assembling Collaboration.”

This paper presents an application of stasis theory for the purpose of consulting with interdisciplinary teams of scientists working in the early stages of composing a science policy advisory document.

English

Author/Lead: Cameron Mozafari
Dates:
By showing that stasis theory can be used as an organizing conceptual tool, we demonstrate how cooperative and organized question-asking practices calm complex interdisciplinary scientific disputations in order to propel productive science policy work. We believe that the conceptual structure of stasis theory motivates scientists to shift their viewpoints from solitary expert specialists toward that of allied policy guides for their advisory document's reader. We further argue that, through the use of stasis theory, technical writers can aid interdisciplinary scientists in policy writing processes, thus fostering transdisciplinary collaboration.

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"Bibliocircuitry and the Design of the Alien Everyday."

This essay describes, models, and advocates for the role of reflective design in bibliography and textual studies.

English

Author/Lead: Cameron Mozafari
Dates:
Popularized by Donald Norman, reflective design promotes critical inquiry over usability and exploratory prototyping over fully realized productions. We highlight four projects undertaken by the authors that embody reflective design, including three that explore the crossed codes of print and electronic books. A larger aim of the essay is to position bibliotextual scholarship and pedagogy as design-oriented practices that can be used to imagine the future as well as reconstruct the past.

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