Fields: Technical Communication, Professional Writing, Writing Studies, Composition and Rhetoric, Rhetorical Theory
Courses:
- WR 425/525 Advanced Technical Writing
- WR 410/510 Research Methods for Professional Writers
- WR 227 Introduction to Technical Writing
Publications:
- “Operational Metrics Reporting Processes at Scientific User Facilities: Comparing a High-energy X-ray Synchrotron Facility to a Supercomputing Facility,” with Michael Papka. Proceedings of IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, July 23-26, 2017, Madison, WI.
- “The Net Work Genre Function.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 30(2). October 2016.
- “Improving Models of Document Cycling: Accounting for the Less Visible Writing Activities of an Annual Reporting Process at a Supercomputing Facility,” Proceedings of IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, October 2-5, 2016, Austin, TX. Winner of the 2016 James M. Lufkin Award for Best Paper Submitted to the Conference.
- “Writing about Writing and the Multimajor Professional Writing Course,” with Michael Michaud. College Composition and Communication. 66 (3). 2015.
- “Making a Thing of Quality Childcare: Latourian Rhetoric Doing Things,” The Object of Rhetoric: Assembling and Disassembling, Bruno Latour, Paul Lynch and Nathaniel Rivers, eds. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 2015.
- “Visualizing and Tracing: Research Methodologies for Distributed, Networked, Sociotechnical Activity, Otherwise Known as Knowledge Work,” with Jason Swarts. Technical Communication Quarterly. 24 (1). 2015.
- “Genre Cycling: The Infrastructural Function of an Operational Assessment Review and Reporting Process at a Federal Scientific Supercomputing User Facility,” with Michael E. Papka. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International Conference on Design of Communication, Colorado Springs, Colorado. ACM, Inc. New York. 2014.
- “Participatory Design in the Development of a Web-based Technology for Visualizing Writing Activity as Knowledge Work,” with Anna Delamerced and Mark Zachry. Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on the Design of Communications, Seattle, Washington. ACM, Inc. New York. 2012.
- “The Negotiation of Writer Identity in Engineering Faculty-Writing Consultant Collaborations,” The Journal of Writing Research, 3 (2). 2011.
- “The Mundane, Power and Symmetry: A Reading of the Field with Dorothy Winsor and the Tradition of Ethnographic Research,” Technical Communication Quarterly. 20 (4). 2011.
Awards:
- Winner of the 2016 James M. Lufkin Award for Best Paper Submitted to the Conference for “Improving Models of Document Cycling: Accounting for the Less Visible Writing Activities of an Annual Reporting Process at a Supercomputing Facility,” Proceedings of IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, October 2-5, 2016, Austin, TX.
- Winner of 2013 CCCC Award for best article reporting historical research or textual studies in technical communication for “The Mundane, Power and Symmetry: A Reading of the Field with Dorothy Winsor and the Tradition of Ethnographic Research.” Technical Communication Quarterly. 20 (4). 2011.
- Nominee, Pushcart Prize, short story, “Even Numb Skin Holds the Blood Inside,” 2006.
- Honorable Mention for Best Novel: “The Conversion of Richard Abrams,” Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City, 2004.
- Winner, Scowcroft Prize for Fiction: “Forced Pendulum,” University of Utah Department of English, 2002.
On the PSU faculty since 2017.