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Publications

© Rhetorical Research: Toward a User-Centered Approach
Rhetoric Review, 23(1). January, 2004. pp. 57-74

©  Interrupting Gender as Usual: Metis Goes to Work
Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 32. May, 2003, pp.211-33

© Tinkering With Technological Skill
Computers and Composition
16 (April 1999): 7-23.

© Risk Communication and Rhetoric: The Ethics of Participation
Center News 11, 3-4 (Spring/Summer 1994): 4-12.

© Classical Theory in Modern Context: One Source of Generative Power for Technical and Scientific Communications Programs
Proceedings of The 1993 Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication Conference (1994): 73-4.

© Proposal Writing at Atherton Jordan, Inc.: An Ethnographic Study
with Claudia MonPere McIsaac.
Management Communication Quarterly, An International Journal, 12, 4 (May 1990): 527-60.

© Reinforcing Successive Gains: Collaborative Projects for Writing Faculty
Writing Program Administration,
12(3) (1989): 57-61.

© Towards a Marriage of Two Minds: The Word Processor and Natural Habits of Thought in the ‘Discovery’ Stage of Composing
with Fred White.
ERIC ED. Bloomington, IN: ERIC/RCS, 1985.

Reviews

Review of Rhetoric, Innovation, Technology: Case Studies of Technical Communication in Technology Transfers by Stephen Doheny-Farina.
Technical Communication Quarterly (forthcoming in the “next available general issue”)

© Techne Goes Professional: Ancient Knowledge in the Contemporary Workplace
Technical Communication Quarterly 11 (Spring 2002): 216-219.

© Expanding English Studies to Include Workplace Writing: Imagining Real Change or Re-Inventing the Wheel?
The Journal of Computer Documentation 23 (November 1999): 23-26.

Plays

Craft, Techne and Cunning Intelligence: Toward an Art of Techno-Feminism
with Frances Ranney

Work Accepted for Publication

The Intersecting Futures of Technical Communication and Software Engineering: Forging a Multi-Disciplinary Alliance
with Robert R. Johnson and Charles Wallace.
Special Issue of Technical Communication on Future Development of the Profession (forthcoming August 2006).

What We Teach and What They Use: Faculty Teaching and Students Learning in STC Programs and Beyond
Journal of Business and Technical Communication (forthcoming January 2007).

Work Under Consideration

Speaking of Software: A Rhetorical Exploration of Issues in Stakeholder Communication
with Robert R. Johnson and Charles Wallace.
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Work in Progress

The Power of Productive Knowledge: Using Theory to Build Stronger Technical and Professional Communication Programs

Participating Fully: Scientific & Technical Communication Programs and Writing Centers Collaborating on International and Cross Disciplinary Work
with Sylvia Matthews and Karen Koethe

Grants

2004-2006, National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, $330,000.
Co-PI with Robert R. Johnson, Humanities, and Charles Wallace, Computer Sciences.
Speaking of Software: Integrating Communication andDocumentation Techniques into an Undergraduate Software EngineeringCurriculum.

Presentations

2005 Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference