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Thomas Barker

Barker Profile

Professor

Office: 363E
Email: thomas.barker@ttu.edu
Web: http://www.faculty.english.ttu.edu/barker

Awards
Book
Edited Collections
Articles		 Short Articles
Editorial Boards
Presentations
Grant and Research Activity

Writing Software Documentation Cover

Perspectives on Software Documentation Inquiries and Innovations Cover

Book

  • Writing Software Documentation:  A Task-Oriented Approach, second edition, Allyn & Bacon, Publishers, 2003.  (With accompanying instructor’s manual by the author.)

 

Edited Collections

  • Getting Started in Consulting and Independent Contracting, World Wide Web book publication, 1997, edited with Karen Steele.
    http://www.stcsig.org/cic/OnlineBook/contents.htm
  • Perspectives on Software Documentation: Inquiries and Innovations, Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Co., Inc., 1991.

 

Articles

  • Barker, T. (2011). Cleaning a Dirty Beach: What We Do as Technical Communicators. Intercom, 58(3), 30-31.
  • Barker, T. (2009). In Liz Pollard (Ed.), Technical Communicators Put the "Public" in Public Health (1st ed.,vol. 56, pp. 18-21). Washington, DC: Intercom.
  • Barker, T. (2010). The Academic Eye:  Informing Visually. Intercom, 57(10), 31-32.
  • Barker, T. (2010). "Communication is the Best Medicine". Intercom, 57(5), 27-29.
  • "Teaching Intercultural Communication in a Technical Writing Service Course:  Real Instructors' Practices and Suggestions for Textbook Selection." Co-authored with Natalia Matveeva. Technical Communication Quarterly 15.2 (2006): 191-214.
  • “Documentation for Software and IS Development,” Encyclopaedia of Information Systems. Elsevier Press, 2002. 679-680.
  • “Moving from Academe to Industry,” Getting Started in Consulting and Independent Contracting, ed. Thomas T. Barker, World Wide Web publication, 1997.
    http://www.stcsig.org/cic/OnlineBook/contents.htm

 

Short Articles

  • "Trends in Academic Technical Communication:  A Complex Picture." Intercom (January 2007): 25-28.
  • “Keeping Up in Down Economic Times.” Intercom (February 2003): 2-5.
  • “The Changing World of the Independent:  A Broader Perspective.” Co-authored with Kathryn Poe. Technical Communication 49. 2 (May, 2002): 151-153.
  • “How Have You Advanced Your Career?” Intercom (April, 2002): 9.
  • “The Independent’s Guide to the Conference.” The Independent Perspective 12.1 (Spring, 2002): 8.
  • “Looking Back:  CICSIG Activities in 2001-2002." The Independent Perspective 12.1 (Spring 2002): 4, 9.
  • "Technical Communicators Put the “Public” in Public Health”  Intercom (January 2009): 18-21.

 

Editorial Boards

  • Programmatic Perspectives, editorial board, 2007-present.
  • Technical Communication, reviewer 1994-present; member of editorial board, 2006-present
  • Computers and Composition, member of editorial board, 1985-1990

 

Presentations in the Last Six Years

Invited

  • Barker, T. (Presenter & Author), 10th Annual Harm Reduction Conference, Streetworks and Alberta Addicts Who Educate and Advocate Responsibly, Edmonton, AB, Canada, "Pandemic Planning for Outreach Nurses," Regional. (March 4, 2009).

Accepted

  • Barker, T., Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication, Boise State University, Boise, ID, "Responding to Social Change: Ways That Programs Can Manage Medical Writing Courses," International, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (September 30, 2010).
  • Barker, T., Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Louisville, KY, "Mapping Theoretical Approaches toRisk Communication in Public Health," International, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (March 17, 2010).
  • Barker, T. (Presenter & Author), STC Summit, Society for Technical Communication, Atlanta, GA, "Modeling Public Engagement in Public Health Risk Communication," International, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (May 4, 2009).
  • Barker, T. (Presenter & Author), STC Summit, Society for Technical Communication, Atlanta, Georgia, "Developing Outcomes for Teaching Risk Communication," International, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (May 3, 2009).
  • Barker, T. (Presenter & Author), ATTW Conference, Association for Teachers of Technical Writing, San Francisco, CA, "Risk Communication for Flu Pandemics: A Model of Community Engagement," International, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (March 15, 2009).
  • Barker, T. (Presenter & Author), What's Up Doc? AFPRN Poster Presentation, Alberta College of Family Physicians, Banff, AB, Canada, "Risk Communication for Flu Pandemics," National, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (February 26, 2009).
  • Barker, T. (Presenter & Author), Accelerating Primary Care, Alberta College of Family Physicians, Edmonton, AB, Canada, "The Role of Primary Care Physicians in Pandemic Flu Risk Communication," National, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (February 11, 2009).
  • Kimball, M. (Presenter & Author), Carter, J. (Presenter & Author), Barker, T. (Presenter & Author), Elliott, N. (Presenter & Author), Coppola, N. (Presenter & Author), Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, "“Re(Building) Technical Communication as a Research Discipline: A Community Model for Program Assessment.”," International, Peer Reviewed/Refereed,Published Elsewhere. (2007).

 

Grant and Research Activity

  • Barker, Thomas (Principal), "Scholar Incentive Award," Sponsored by College of Arts & Sciences, Texas Tech University. September 15, 2010 - May 1, 2011.
  • Barker, Thomas (Principal), "Faculty Development Leave," Sponsored by Texas Tech University, Texas Tech University. September 1, 2008 - May 1, 2009.