"I'm interested in the stories we tell ourselves that constitute our knowledge and that allow us to understand and make use of our resources."
Associate Professor
PhD, New Mexico State University, 2000
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Office: English 363-B
Research interests
metaphor, philosophy of science, rhetoric of science
Publications
Metaphor and Knowledge: The Challenges of Writing Science. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003.
"Using Writing Standards to Develop a Moral Foundation for Economic Literacy." The Literacy Standard. Eds. Alice Horning and Ron Sudol, Oakland University, Hampton, 2004.
"Optimism and Pessimism on the High Plains: A Tale of Archaeological Reports." Technical Communication Quarterly 2003 Special Issue: "Science and Nature Writing," 2003.
Other achievements
Former journalist, former economist
Award
Outstanding Dissertation in Technical and Scientific Communication 2001, From NCTE, Committee on
Technical on Technical and Scientific Communication
Associate Professor
PhD, University of New Mexico, 2002
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Office: English 363-F
Hypertext theory, interface design and information architecture, online publishing and instruction, visual rhetoric, visual spatial-thinking, digital literacy.
Publications
"Visual-spatial thinking in hypertexts" w/Richard Johnson-Sheehan, in Technical
Communication 48.1, 2001. Winner of Distinguished Technical Communication Award from STC, 2002.
Conceptualizing the Whole: Using Visual-spatial Thinking in the Interpretation and Design of
Hypertext Systems, Doctoral Dissertation, 2002, published by UMI.
Professor
Director of Technical Communication
Faculty advisor, Society for Technical Communication, Texas Tech student chapter
PhD, University of Texas, 1980
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Office: English 363-E
computer documentation, online technologies and communication, distance education, technical communication pedagogy, service-learning
Major and recent publications
"Teaching Intercultural Communication in a Technical Writing Service Course: Real Instructors'
Practices and Suggestions for Textbook Selection," with Natalia Matveeva, Technical Communication
Quarterly, 15 (2), 2006, 191-214.
Editor, Technical Communication, Special Issue on Consulting and Independent Contracting, May, 2002
Author of the textbook, Writing
Software Documentation
Editor of a collection,
Perspectives on Software Documentation
Contributing Editor of an online book
Getting Started in Consulting and Independent Contracting (1998)
Other achievements
Manager, Society for Technical Communication's Academic Community
Elected to Associate Fellow, STC, 2003
Winner of the STC J. R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies in Technical Communication and Rhetoric
PhD, University of Texas, 1997
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Office: English 363-C
Computer-based instruction in English; history and theory of rhetoric; software development and design; software industry issues; hypertext theory and application; theory and practice of argumentation; the role of market-based economics in the formation and discourse of the communications fields (technical communication, rhetoric, composition); real-world applications for pedagogy (service learning).
Recent publications
Market Matters: Applied Rhetoric Studies and Free Market Competition. . Hampton, 2005.
Yeats, Dave, and Locke Carter. "The Role of the Highlights Video in Usability Testing: Rhetorical and Generic Expectations." Technical Communication 52.2 (May 2005), pp. 156-62.
Carter, Locke, and Rebecca Rickly. "Mind the Gap(s): Modeling Space in Online Education." In Cargile Cook, K., & Grant-Davie, K. Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers. Farmingdale, NY: Baywood, 2005, pp. 123-40.
Technical Communication, Special Issue on the Impact of Single Sourcing on Writers and Writing, 50.3 (August 2003). [guest editor].
"Argument in Hypertext: Writing Strategies and the Problem of Order in a Non-Sequential World." Computers and Composition 20 (2003), pp. 3-22.
Other achievements
Former CEO and software products developer, The Daedalus Group (educational software company).
Co-author of the award-winning Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment.
Professor
Chair, Department of English
PhD, Ohio University, 1982
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Office: English 474
editing, visual communication, international communication, ethics
Major and recent publications
"Hiding Humanity: Verbal and Visual Ethics in Accident Reports," Technical Communication 50 (2003): 61-82 [co-authored with Dan Voss, Lockheed Martin Corporation].
Reporting Technical Information. 10th ed. Oxford University Press, 2002 [co-authored with Dr. Thomas E. Pearsall, Emeritus, University of Minnesota, and Dr. Elizabeth Tebeaux, Texas A&M University].
"Cruel Pies: The Inhumanity of Technical Illustrations," Technical Communication, 48 (2001): 265-274 [co-authored with Dan Voss, Lockheed Martin Corporation].
Technical Communication Quarterly, Special Issue on Ethics in Technical Communication, 10.3 (2001) [guest editor].
Co-author of A Writer's Repertoire (HarperCollins, 1995), A Reader's Repertoire
(HarperCollins, 1996), and Editing: The Design of Rhetoric (Baywood, 1989).
Editor, Technical Writing: Student Samples and Teacher Responses (ATTW, 1992)
Series editor of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication.
Other achievements
Series editor of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication
President of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, 1997-1999
Past-President of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing; manager of its e-mail
discussion list (attw-l); webmaster of the ATTW site
Winner of the STC J. R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005
Assistant Professor
PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2003
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Office: English 363-G
Technical communication pedagogy and practice, especially within online environments; quantitative research methods.
Recent publications
Eaton, A. (2005). Students in the online technical communication classroom. In K. Cargile Cook and K.
Grant-Davie (Eds.), Online education: Global questions, local answers. Farmingdale, NY: Baywood.
Krull, R., Friauf, J., Brown-Grant, J., & Eaton, A. (2002). What users want from electronic
performance support: Results from three waves of qualitative data. Proceedings of the Society for
Technical Communication 49th Annual Conference, 311-314.
Krull, R., Friauf, J., Brown-Grant, J., & Eaton, A. (2001). Usability trends in an online help
system: User testing on three releases of help for a visual programming language. IEEE International
Professional Communication Conference Proceedings, USA, 19-26.
Associate Professor
PhD in Rhetoric and Composition, with an emphasis in Computer-Based Rhetoric, University of Texas at Austin, 1988
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Office: English 211-D
Computer-Based Instruction in English; history and theory of rhetoric; collaborative strategies for composition instruction; the computer-based classroom; guided heuristics in composition instruction; design and programming of software to support writing and literature instruction; use of wide-area electronic networks for professional collaboration, research, and instruction.
Major and
recent publications
"The Aesthetic Anvil: The Foundations of
Resistance to Technology and Innovation in English Departments." In Market Matters: Applied
Rhetoric Studies and Free Market Competition. Ed. Locke Carter. Hampton, 2005, pp. 77-94.
"Writing Dialogically: Bold Lessons from Electronic Text." Reconceiving Writing, Rethinking Writing Instruction. Ed: Joseph Petraglia-Bahri. Lawrence Erlbaum.
"Bitnetting with Soul: The Life and Times of Megabyte University." Works and Days: Essays in the Socio-Historical Dimensions of Literature and the Arts. Ed. David B. Downing. Indiana University of Pennsylvania; "Ethical Research in Computer-Based Writing Instruction."
Author-ity and Textuality: Current Views of Collaborative Writing. Ed. James S. Leonard. Locust Hill Literary Studies, No. 14. Locust Hill Press, 1994. 101-112.
Other achievements
Founder and current president of The Daedalus Group, Inc., a company prominent in the development of
educational software, and co-author of DIWE, the "Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment" (1990
EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL award winner for best writing software).
Founder of email discussion lists Megabyte University (MBU-L), ACW-L, and WCENTER
Chair, NCTE Instructional Technology Committee; past chair and current member of the CCCC Computers in Composition Committee; Co-director of the Alliance for Computers and Writing and manager of ACW's Web site
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Kentucky, 1997
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Office: English 363-A
Research interests
History of technical communication; information graphics; web portfolios; perceptual theory (semiotics, discourse analysis); visual communication; technical communication and culture.
Publications
The Web Portfolio Guide, Allyn & Bacon 2003.
The Young Duke, by Benjamin Disraeli: A New Edition. Editor. Pickering & Chatto, forthcoming 2004.
"AngloAmerican Printing." Encyclopedia of AngloAmerican Relations. Pickering & Chatto, forthcoming 2004.
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Minnesota, 2002
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Office: English 363-D
Web site: http://www.amykoerber.com
Research interests
health communication, rhetoric of science and technology, women's studies, internet studies
Publications
’You Just Don’t See Enough Normal’: Critical Perspectives on Infant-Feeding Discourse and Practice” in a special issue on “The Discourses of Medicine” of the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 19.3 (July 2005)
Amy Koerber and Mary M. Lay. "Understanding Women's Concerns in the International Setting Through the Lens of Science and Technology." Invited chapter in Encompassing Gender: Integrating International Studies and Women's Studies. New York: Feminist Press, 2002.
"Toward a Feminist Rhetoric of Technology." Journal of Business and Technical Communication 14.1 (January 2000): 58-73.
"Postmodernism, Resistance, and Cyberspace: Making Rhetorical Spaces for Feminist Mothers on the Web." Women's Studies in Communication 24.2 (Fall 2001): 218-40.
Associate Professor
Director of Composition
PhD, Emory University, 1992
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Office: English 488
Research Interests
Computer-based instruction in composition and literature, intellectual property issues, hypertext,
textual theory.
Recent Publications
"New Process, New Product: Redistributing Labor in a First-Year Writing Program." In Market
Matters: Applied Rhetoric Studies and Free Market Competition. Ed. Locke Carter. Hampton, 2005,
pp. 187-204.
"Electronic Dissertations: Preparing Students for Our Past or Their Futures?" College English 2002.
"Replicating and Extending Dialogic Aspects of the Graduate Seminar in Distance Education." In Cargile Cook, K., & Grant-Davie, K. Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers. Farmingdale, NY: Baywood, 2005.<
"Who Owns the Course? Online Composition Courses in an Era of Changing Intellectual Property Law." Computers and Composition 15(2), August 1998, pp. 215 - 28.
"Converging (or Colliding) Traditions: Integrating Hypertext into Literary Studies." In Texts and Textuality: Textual Instability, Theory, Interpretation, and Pedagogy. New York: Garland Press, 1997, pp. 291 - 312.
Forthcoming publications
Co-Editor of a Special Issue of Computers and Composition entitled Tenure2000 which focuses
on working conditions and issues concerning academic employment for those who work with technology
and English Studies.
Also forthcoming from Southern Illinois UP, Resisting Assimilation: The Relationship between Hypertext and English Studies.
Other Achievements
Program Review Coordinator for the 2000 Conference on Computers and Writing, Associate Chair,
Assembly on Computers and English of the National Council of Teachers of English (1998 - 2000),
Editorial Board Member, Kairos: A Journal for Teachers in Webbed Writing Environment, The
ACE Journal, academic.writing
Associate Professor
PhD, Ball State University, 2002
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Office: English 487
Research interests
contemporary composition and rhetoric, new media and professional writing, TA training, portfolio
assessment, distance education, service learning
Recent publications
"Multimodal Composing: Teaching Effective Communication Through Exploring Oral,
Chirographic, Typographic, and Electronic Culture." Eds. Michael Day and Carol Lipson. Technical
Communication and the World Wide Web. Co-written with Carole Clark Papper. NY: Allyn & Bacon,
2005. 295-304.
"Composing the Intranet-Based Electronic Portfolio Using 'Common' Tools." Eds. Barbara L. Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel P. Tompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices for Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Washington, D.C.: The American Association for Higher Education, 2001. 37-43.
Reynolds, Nedra and Rich Rice. Portfolio Teaching: A Guide For Teachers of College Writing Courses. 2/e. NY: Bedford, 2006.
Reynolds, Nedra and Rich Rice. Portfolio Keeping: A Guide For Students. 2/e. NY: Bedford, 2006.
"Reading Multimodal Texts: Remediating the Text." Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 10.2 (Fall 2005). Co-written with Cheryl Ball. http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/in_progress/10.2/riceball3/index2.htm
“iRhetoric Placeshifting: A New Media Approach to Teaching the Classical Rhetoric Course.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 11.3 (Summer 2007). http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/11.3/binder.html?topoi/rice
“Computers & Writing 2006 Through the Rear-View Mirror: A Redux.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 11.2 (Spring 2007). http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/11.2/binder.html?topoi/rice
Associate Professor
PhD, Ball State University, 1995
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Office: English 489
gender and communication, online and oral discourse analysis, methods and methodology, theories of rhetoric(s), and literacy issues.
Co-editor of The Online Writing Classroom (Hampton Press, 1999).
Recent
publications
Carter, Locke, and Rebecca Rickly. "Mind the Gap(s): Modeling Space in Online Education." In
Cargile Cook, K., & Grant-Davie, K. Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers.
Farmingdale, NY: Baywood, 2005.
"The Gender Gap in Computers and Composition Research: Must Boys Be Boys?" in Computers and Composition (April 1999).
"Promotion, Tenure, and Technology: Do We Get What We Deserve?" in Electronic Networks: Crossing Boundaries/Creating Communities, Ed. Tharon Howard, Dixie Goswami, Rocky Gooch. Heinemann-Boynton Cook (1999).
"Reflection and Responsibility in (Cyber)Tutor Training: Seeing Ourselves Clearly On and Off the Screen." in Wiring the Writing Center, ed. by Eric Hobson (Utah State University Press, 1998).
Other achievements
Chair of the Instructional Technology Committee of NCTE (three year appointment); member of ACE, CCCC
Committee on Computers and Composition, and ACW.
Associate Professor
PhD, Univ. of Minnesota, 2002
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Office: English 484
Intercultural communication, online communication, e-commerce, rhetoric of economics
Publications
“International Digital Studies: A Research Approach for Examining International Online Interactions.”
In Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, 2004, pp.
317-37.
"Making Contact in International Virtual Offices: An Application of Symbolic Interactionism." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 46 (2003): 236-40.
“Integrating Intercultural Online Learning Experiences into the Computer Classroom." Technical Communication Quarterly 11 (2002): 289-315.
“When Cultures and Computers Collide." Journal of Business and Technical Communication 16 (2002): 196-214.
Other achievements
Instructor of business communication, international business, and e-commerce with USAID-sponsored
Consortium for the Enhancement of Ukrainian Management Education (Yalta, Dnipropetrovsk, and
Uzhgorod, Ukraine).
Assistant Professor
PhD, U. of South Dakota, 2005.
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Office: English 473
usability testing, computer-mediated communication, theories of technology, hacktivism, techno-pedagogy, open source issues
Recent publications
Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives. Co-edited with Kirk St. Amant. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2007.
"Talking to Students: Evaluating the Use of Embedded Voice Commenting for Critiquing Student Writing." Journal of Business and Technical Communication 20.4 (2006): 460-475.
"Internal Cultural Barriers to E-Commerce Implementation: A Case Study of How Ineffective Leadership Doomed XYZ’s Online Transaction System." Co-authored. International Journal of Cases on Electronic Commerce 2.1 (2006): 23-45.
"Hacking for a Cause." First Monday 10.9 (September 2005). <http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_9/still/index.html>.
"A Syntactic Approach to Readability." Co-authored. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 35.1 (2005): 47-70.
Assistant Professor
PhD, Carnegie Mellon U., 2001.
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Office: English 472
discourse analysis, rhetoric of science and technology, artificial intelligence, gender and language, computer-mediated communication
Recent publications
'Demonstrating a Web Design Technique: A Public Speaking Assignment for a Distance Learning
Environment', Communication Teacher 18.1. (forthcoming 2004).
"Artificial Intelligence as a Discursive Practice: The Case of Embodied Software Agent Systems" in AI & Society 17.3 (forthcoming 2003).
"Scripting Sylvie: Language, Gender, and Humanness in Public Discourse About Software Agents" in S. Benor, M. Rose, D. Sharma, J. Sweetland, Q. Zhang (eds) Gendered Practices in Language (pp. 255-273). Stanford, CA: CSLI Press, 2002.
"Passing Loebner's Turing Test: A Case of Conflicting Discourse Functions" in Minds & Machines: Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science 11.1 (2001): 53-76.