Faculty in Technical Communication
The technical communication program at Texas Tech is the largest in the country. Our faculty covers a wide range of topics and they all teach in the undergraduate and graduate programs.
Baake | Baehr | Barker | Carter | Dragga | Eaton | Kimball | Kemp | Lang | Rice | Rickly | St. Amant | Still | Zdenek
|
806-742-2500 x250 Office: English 363-B Listen to Ken Baake speak about his interests: |
Associate Professor | PhD, New Mexico State University, 2000 Research interests 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 |
|
806-742-2500 x228 Office: English 363-F |
Associate Professor | PhD, University of New Mexico, 2002 Research interests Publications |
|
Director of Technical Communication Faculty advisor: Society for Technical Communication, Texas Tech student chapter 806-742-2500 x279 Office: English 363-E Listen to Thomas Barker discuss his background and research interests: |
Professor | PhD University of Texas 1980 | Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication (2008) Research interests Major and recent publications Editor, Technical Communication, Special Issue on Consulting and Independent Contracting, May, 2002 Author of the textbook, Writing Software Documentation Elected to Associate Fellow, STC, 2003 Winner of the STC J. R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005 |
|
Director of Graduate Studies in Technical Communication and Rhetoric 806-742-2500 x247 Office: English 363-C |
Associate Professor | PhD, University of Texas, 1997 Research interests Recent publications 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 |
|
Chair, Department of English Office: English 474 |
Professor | PhD, Ohio University, 1982 Research interests Major and recent publications 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). Series editor of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication. Other achievements |
|
806-742-2500 x229 Office: English 363-G
|
Assistant Professor | PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2003 Research interests Recent publications 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. |
|
806-742-2500 Office: English 211-D |
Associate Professor | PhD University of Texas at Austin, 1988 Research interests Major and recent publications "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 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. |
|
806-742-2500 x227 Office: English 363-A Listen to Miles Kimball discuss his background and research interests |
Associate Professor | PhD, University of Kentucky, 1997 Research interests 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. |
|
806-742-2500 x229 Office: English 363-D Web site: http://www.amykoerber.com |
Associate Professor | PhD, University of Minnesota, 2002 Research interests 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. |
|
Director of Composition 806-742-2500 x272 Office: English 488 |
Associate Professor | PhD, Emory University, 1992 Research Interests Recent 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 |
|
806-742-2500 x285 Office: English 487 |
Assistant Professor | PhD Ball State University, 2002 Research interests Recent 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 |
|
806-742-2500 x268 Office: English 489 Listen to Rebecca Rickly discuss her background and research interests: |
Associate Professor | PhD, Ball State University, 1995 Research interests Recent publications "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). |
|
806-742-2500 Office: English 484 |
Assistant Professor | PhD, University of Minnesota, 2002 Research InterestsIntercultural communication, online communication, e-commerce, rhetoric of economics Publications "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 |
|
806-742-2500 x267 Office: English 473 |
Assistant Professor | PhD, University of South Dakota, 2005 Research interests Recent publications "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. Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives. Co-edited with Kirk St. Amant. Under contract with Idea Group Publishing, targeted date 2007. "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. |
|
806-742-2500 x484 Office: English 472 |
Assistant Professor | PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001 Research interests Recent publications “Muted Voices: Cochlear Implants, News Discourse, and the Public Fascination with Curing Deafness”, solicited by B. Johnstone & C. Eisenhart (eds) Rhetoric in Detail: Discourse Analysis of Rhetorical Talk and Text. Under review with Benjamins. “Demonstrating a Web Design Technique in a Distance Learning Environment”, Communication Teacher 18.1 (2004): 33-35. “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.
Lecturers in Technical Communication 2003
|
Jurgen U. Heise |
After receiving his Bachelor's degrees (English and French) in Germany, Heise came to Texas Tech University (1977) to pursue his graduate studies. In 1981 he received his MA in English, with minors in Speech Communication and German. Between 1981 and 1985, Heise developed training manuals for a regional supermarket chain while furthering his formal education. In 1985, Heise accepted a full-time lectureship at Texas Tech, which he has held since that time. Other professional activities have included an eight-year advisory role for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, as well as a number of consulting assignments for entities as varied as Conoco Inc. (oil and gas exploration), FSI International (semiconductors), and the City of Lubbock (public administration). In addition to his continued extensive professional involvement, Heise serves as the faculty advisor of the European Students Club. |