Figure 4: Pre-inventory questions to ask prior to a pilot effort with a new textual practice.
From: Dush, Lisa. (2009). Genre-informed implementation analysis: An approach for assessing the sustainability of new textual practices. In Danielle Nicole DeVoss, Heidi McKee, & Dickie Selfe (Eds.), Technological Ecologies and Sustainability. Logan: Utah State University Press and Computers and Composition Digital Press.

1.	What recurrent, socially important situations and activities are we most interested in using this new textual practice for? 

2.	If we implement this new practice in the particular situations and activities listed above, will it allow the organization and individuals within it to accomplish action that current practices do not? If so, what actions?

3.	How do we want the texts produced to look, in terms of substance and form?

4.	What cognitive and discourse practices will be utilized to produce the texts? Are these practices familiar? Manageable? Desirable?

5.	Who will be involved in the production of the texts? What social roles will they occupy? Will this new practice ask people to relate to each other in unfamiliar ways? Do we care to deal with these new relationships?

6.	How will the practice require we use organizational time and space? Are these arrangements familiar? Manageable? Desirable?

7.	What cognitive and discourse practices will be utilized in using the texts? Are these cognitive and discourse practices familiar? Manageable? Desirable?

8.	Who will be involved in the use of the texts? What social roles will they occupy? Will this new practice ask people to relate to each other in unfamiliar ways? If so, do we care to (or need to) deal with these new relationships?

9.	How will the use of the texts require we use organizational time and space? Are these arrangements familiar? Manageable? Desirable?

10.	Do we have the energy, resources, and drive to deal with all of the changes that have emerged in this inventory? Should we hire or reallocate people to help us meet these challenges?