Faculty in Technical Communication
The technical communication program at Texas Tech is the largest in the country. Our faculty specialize in a wide range of topics, and they all teach in the undergraduate and graduate programs.
Baake | Baehr | Booher | Carter | Cargile-Cook | Dragga | Eaton | Kimball | Koerber | Lang | Rice | Rickly | Still | Zdenek
| Office: English 363-B Listen to Ken Baake speak about his interests: | Associate Professor | PhD, New Mexico State University, 2000 Research interests Selected Publications "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 Awards |
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Office: English 363-F | Associate Professor | PhD, University of New Mexico, 2002 Research interests Selected Publications
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| Assistant Professor | PhD Clemson, 2009 Research interests | |
| Associate Professor | PhD Texas Tech University, 2000 Research interests Selected publications Cargile Cook, K., & Grant-Davie, K. (2005). Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers. Baywood’s Technical Communication Series. Farmingdale, NY: Baywood. 336 pp. Received NCTE Award for Excellence for Best Collection in Technical and Scientific Communication, 2006. Cargile Cook, K. (2007, Winter). Immersion in a digital pool: training prospective online instructors in online environments. Technical Communication Quarterly (Special issue on Online Teaching and Learning: Preparation, Development, and Organizational Communication. Ed. By Beth Hewett and Christa Ehrmann.) 16 (1), 55-82. Cargile Cook, K. (2002, Winter). Layered literacies: a theoretical frame for technical communication pedagogy. Technical Communication Quarterly, 11(1), 5-29.
President, CPTSC, 2006-08 Vice President, ATTW, 2007-2009 Secretary, CPTSC, 2002-2006 Teacher of the Year, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences of Utah State University 2005 Teacher of the Year, Humanities Division, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences of Utah State University, 2005 Teacher of the Year, English Department of Utah State University 2005 | |
| Director of Graduate Studies in Technical Communication and Rhetoric Office: English 363-C (faculty) English 211 (advising) 806-742-2500 x247
| Associate Professor | PhD, University of Texas, 1997 Research interests Selected publications Market Matters: Applied Rhetoric Studies and Free Market Competition. Ed. Joyce Locke Carter. Hampton, 2005. Yeats, Dave, and Joyce 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, Joyce 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.
Other achievements Chair and head juror, "Best Dissertation in Technical Communication" Award for the CCCC, 2009 and 2010. Member of 3-year investigative committee: 2009-2012 CCCC Committee on LGBT/Q Issues |
| Office: English 474 | Professor | PhD, Ohio University, 1982 Research interests Selected publications Essentials of Technical Communication, Oxford University Press, 2010 [co-authored with Dr. Elizabeth Tebeaux, Texas A&M University]. A Writer’s Repertoire 1: Rhetoric and Writing, Cengage, 2010 [co-authored with Dr. Gwendolyn Gong, Chinese University of Hong Kong] A Writer’s Repertoire 2: Aims and Purposes, Cengage, 2010 [co-authored with Dr. Gwendolyn Gong, Chinese University of Hong Kong] A Writer’s Repertoire 3: Nuts and Bolts, Cengage, 2010 [co-authored with Dr. Gwendolyn Gong, Chinese University of Hong Kong] “SARS versus Atypical Pneumonia: Inconsistencies in Hong Kong’s Public Health Warnings and Disease-Prevention Campaign.” The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a Health Communication Crisis. Ed. John H. Powers and Xiao Xiaosui. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008. 53-68. [co-authored with Dr. Gwendolyn Gong, Chinese University of Hong Kong]. Reporting Technical Information, 11th ed., Oxford University Press, 2006 [co-authored with Dr. Elizabeth Tebeaux, Texas A&M University]. “Hiding Humanity: Verbal and Visual Ethics in Accident Reports,” Technical Communication 50 (2003): 61-82 [co-authored with Dan Voss, Lockheed Martin Corporation]. “Cruel Pies: The Inhumanity of Technical Illustrations,” Technical Communication, 48 (2001): 265-274 [co-authored with Dan Voss, Lockheed Martin Corporation]. Other achievements Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Recipient of STC’s J. R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005 Recipient of NCTE’s Award for Best Book in Technical and Scientific Communication |
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Office: English 363-G
| Associate Professor | PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2003 Research interests Selected publications
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| Director of Technical Communication Office: English 363-A Listen to Miles Kimball discuss his background and research interests | Professor | PhD, University of Kentucky, 1997 Research interests Selected Publications “London through Rose-colored Graphics: Charles Booth’s Maps of London Poverty.” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 36.4 (2006): 351–379. Winner of the 2007 National Council of Teachers of English Award for Best Article on Historical Research or Textual Studies in Technical and Scientific Communication. “Cars, Culture, and Tactical Technical Communication.” Technical Communication Quarterly 15.1 (2006): 67–86. “Database E-portfolio Systems: A Critical Appraisal.” Computers & Composition 22 (2006): 434–458. A scholarly edition of The Young Duke, by Benjamin Disraeli, with 6000-word critical introduction, annotations, and collation of variants across editions published in the author’s life-time. Volume II of The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2004. 327 pp. The Web Portfolio Guide. New York: Longman, 2003. 183 pp. Other Achievements Associate Editor, Technical Communication Quarterly President, College English Association |
| 806-742-2500 x229 Office: English 363-D Web site: http://www.amykoerber.com | Associate Professor | PhD, University of Minnesota, 2002 Research interests Selected Publications 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. Other Achievements Editor, Technical Communication Quarterly |
| Director of Composition 806-742-2500 x272 Office: English 488 | Associate Professor | PhD, Emory University, 1992 Research Interests Selected Publications "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.<</p> "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 Also forthcoming from Southern Illinois UP, Resisting Assimilation: The Relationship between Hypertext and English Studies. Other Achievements |
| Office: English 426 | Assistant Professor | PhD, Purdue University, 2012 Research interests |
| 806.741.0678 Office: English 487 Listen to Rich Rice discuss his background and research interests | Associate Professor | PhD, Ball State University, 2002 Research interests Selected publications 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 |
| Office: English 489 Listen to Rebecca Rickly discuss her background and research interests: | Professor | PhD, Ball State University, 1995 Research interests Selected publications "The Importance of Harmony: An Ecological Metaphor for Writing Research." Article, with Kristie Fleckenstein, Clay Spinuzzi, and Carole Clark Papper, College Composition and Communication 60:2. (December, 2008). Pp. 388-419. "Messy Contexts: Research as a Rhetorical Situation." Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues, Danielle Nicole DeVoss and Heidi A. McKee, Eds. Hampton Press. (2007). Pp. 377-397. (Winner of the 2007 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award) "Distributed Teaching, Distributed Learning: Integrating Technology and Criteria-Driven Assessment into the Delivery of First Year Composition." Chapter in Delivering College Composition: The Fifth Canon. Ed. Kathleen Blake Yancey. Boynton/Cook. (2006). Pp. 194-212. Carter, Joyce 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). |
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Office: English 473 | Associate Professor | PhD, University of South Dakota, 2005 Research interests Selected 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. "Hacking for a Cause." First Monday 10.9 (September 2005). "A Syntactic Approach to Readability." Co-authored with Tim Giles. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 35.1 (2005): 47-70. |
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Office: English 472 | Associate Professor | PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001 Research interests Selected publications “Charting a Course Between Methodological Formalism and Eclecticism: Pedagogical Tensions in Three Rhetorical Analysis Textbooks.” The Review of Communication 9.2 (2009): 188-211. “‘Just Roll Your Mouse Over Me’: Designing Virtual Women for Customer Service on the Web”, Technical Communication Quarterly 16.4 (2007): 397-430. “Muted Voices: Cochlear Implants, News Discourse, and the Public “Artificial Intelligence as a Discursive Practice: The Case of Embodied Software Agent Systems”, AI & Society 17.3/4 (2003): 340-363. "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. |
Additional department faculty with specializations in linguistics, critical theory, and science and literature also offer courses appropriate for students in technical communication and rhetoric and serve on dissertation committees. The interdisciplinary study of writing is also supported by courses in the departments of psychology, management information systems, communication studies, education, and mass communication.