In September and October, I made the most of a pre-tenure teaching leave and gave five separate talks. I’d like to thank New Valley Church, the Association for Business Communication, ACM SIGDOC, The Arizona Site Stewards Conference, and the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication for welcoming me! I began in September by […]
Category: Research
Fulfilling Work, or not
I’ve been finishing up some big projects this year, and I’ve begun to look to the future. One can’t look too deeply into the new projects before finishing the old, lest one get distracted. But still, the faint outlines of new work can become a little less faint while wrapping up existing projects. (Nota bene: […]
Published at JBTC!
I am absolutely thrilled to report that “The Effects of Multimodal Elements on Success in Kickstarter Crowdfunding Campaigns” is live now at the Journal of Business and Technical Communication! This is my first JBTC article, and I’m very excited to publish there. I’m also very excited because this is the first article produced from a […]
Co-editing!
I’m happy to announce that I’m co-editing an edition of Frontiers in Communication on the topic of “Advances in Entrepreneurship and Communication.” I’m working with a great team of Ryan Miller, Antonio La Sala, Cheng Hong, and Gustavo L. Simao to curate work on the topic. If you have any work you’re doing on entrepreneurship […]
New Article about Civic Social Media
I’m very excited to announce that my new piece “Civic Social Media: A Detailed Case for Classroom Use” is now published at Programmatic Perspectives! The article details a complex pedagogical case for use in technical communication classrooms, drawn from a service learning project I ran in 2018. Here’s the abstract: This paper discusses a complex […]
Applied Rhetoric Symposium!
This month, I was pleased to virtually attend and present at the 4th Applied Rhetoric Symposium. I spoke on a new project I’m developing, and this initial version of the project was called “Let’s Have Better Arguments About the Internet: A Stasis-Question Analysis of Rhetoric Concerning the Governance of the Internet.” The short abstract is […]
Guest Lectures!
Spring was a busy season for guest lectures! I gave five talks in four different venues. In April, Missouri State University’s Technical and Professional Writing program invited me to give a faculty workshop as part of MSU’s English Week Conference. I was honored to lead keynote workshop and give a talk to students. My keynote […]
Back on the Pod!
I’m thrilled to report that Mercy Harper invited me to talk on the APQC (American Productivity and Quality Center) podcast again! This time I got to talk about the role of artificial intelligence in business communication. I love talking about this stuff. Here’s a direct link to the pod, but it’s also available everywhere you […]
Collaborative Journal Article!
Collaborative work is some of my favorite work, so I’m proud to announce that our newest article “Artificial Intelligence in Business Communication: The Changing Landscape of Research and Teaching” is online now! Thanks to Kristen Getchell, Peter Cardon, Carolin Fleischmann, Haibing Ma, Jolanta Aritz, and James Stapp for being a great team to discuss a […]
New book chapter!
I’m really excited to announce that I have a new open-access book chapter called “The Ship of Theseus: Change Over Time in Topics of Technical Communication Research Abstracts” out now. It’s meta-research (research on research) about the field that I work in, so if you want to know what sorts of things I and my […]