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==Education== Usability testing has been a formal subject of academic instruction in different disciplines.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Breuch |first1=Lee-Ann M. Kastman |last2=Zachry |first2=Mark |last3=Spinuzzi |first3=Clay |title=Usability Instruction in Technical Communication Programs: New Directions in Curriculum Development |journal=Journal of Business and Technical Communication |date=April 2001 |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=223β240 |doi=10.1177/105065190101500204 |s2cid=61365767 }}</ref> Usability testing is important to composition studies and online writing instruction (OWI).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Miller-Cochran |first1=Susan K. |last2=Rodrigo |first2=Rochelle L. |title=Determining effective distance learning designs through usability testing |journal=Computers and Composition |date=January 2006 |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=91β107 |doi=10.1016/j.compcom.2005.12.002 }}</ref> Scholar Collin Bjork argues that usability testing is "necessary but insufficient for developing effective OWI, unless it is also coupled with the theories of [[digital rhetoric]]."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bjork |first1=Collin |title=Integrating Usability Testing with Digital Rhetoric in OWI |journal=Computers and Composition |date=September 2018 |volume=49 |pages=4β13 |doi=10.1016/j.compcom.2018.05.009 |s2cid=196160668 }}</ref>
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