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Patricia Ann Sullivan

Department of EnglishPurdue UniversityWest Lafayette, IN [email protected]://www.ics.purdue.edu/~psulliva

Education

Ph.D., Rhetorical Theory, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1986

Thesis Title: Rhetoric and the Search for Externally Stored KnowledgeDirector: Linda Flower

M. A. R., Renaissance Literature, St. Louis University, 1975

Thesis Director: Walter J. Ong, S.J.

A. B. (Honors), Magna cum laude, English and Urban Studies, St. Louis University, 1973

Honors2007 “Curricular Geography” article (co-authored with James Porter) selected as one of the best articles published in the history

of Journal of Business and Technical Communication

2001 Richard Braddock Award for Best Publication in College Composition and Communication (with Stuart Blythe, Jeff Grabill,Libby Miles, James Porter)

1999 Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication, NCTE (with James Porter)

1998 Best Article on Theory or Philosophy in Technical or Scientific Communication, NCTE (with James Porter)

1998 First Finalist, Ellen Nold Award for Best Publication in Computers and Composition (with Jennie Dautermann)

1997 Appointment to the Center for Undergraduate Instructional Excellence, School of Liberal Arts, Purdue

1994 Best Article on Theory or Philosophy in Technical or Scientific Communication, NCTE (with James Porter)

1991 First Finalist, Ellen Nold Award for Best Publication in Computers and Composition

1989 Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of English

1987 Best Article on Methods of Teaching Technical or Scientific Communication, NCTE (with Peggy Seiden)

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1977 NEH Summer Seminar Participant (Modern Theories of Invention, Richard Young, Michigan)

1973 Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Sigma Nu (National Jesuit Honor Society)

1969 National Merit Scholar

Academic Appointments

Purdue University

Professor of English (1996-present)Associate Professor of English (1990-1996)Assistant Professor of English (1986-1990)Instructor (1985-1986)

Director, Graduate Program in Rhetoric and Composition (1/98-present)Director, Technical Writing Program (1985-1997)

Carnegie-Mellon University, Teaching and Research Assistant (1980-1984)

University of Wyoming, Instructor in English (1978-1982, on leave 1980-1982)

St. Louis University, Teaching Assistant (1973-1975)

Scholarship

Publications ___________________________________________________________________________

Books (authored and edited)

Professional Writing Online (co-authored with James E. Porter and Johndan Johnson-Eilola). Version 3.0. New York:Pearson Education, 2008. (version 1.0 published by Allyn & Bacon, 2001; version 2, 2003).

• Recognized as the first online text in Technical and Business Communication.

Labor, Technology, and Literacy in the Twenty-first Century (co-edited with Pamela Takayoshi). Hampton Press, 2007.

Opening Spaces: Writing Technologies and Critical Research Practices (co-authored with James E. Porter). NewDirections in Computers and Composition Studies. Greenwich, CT: Ablex and Computers and CompositionPress, 1997.

• Won the 1998 National Council of Teachers of English award for best book in scientific and technical communication.


Electronic Literacies in the Workplace: Technologies of Writing (co-edited with Jennie Dautermann). Advances inComputers and Composition, number 4. Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English Press, 1996.

Book Chapters and Articles

“Video for the Rest of Us? Toward a Sustainable Process for Incorporating Video into Multimedia Composition” (co-authored withPeter J. Fadde). In Danielle DeVoss, Heidi McKee, and Richard Selfe (eds.), Technological Ecologies and Sustainability:Methods, Modes, and Assessment. Computers and Composition Digital Press and Utah State University Press, for releasein 2009.

“Reflections on ‘Human-computer interaction perspectives on word-processing issues.” In Susan Cochran-Miller and RochelleRodrigo (eds.) Rhetorically Rethinking Usability. (pp. 11-14). Hampton Press, for release in 2009.

“Improved Communication via Wireless? Advertisers’ Visions and Shaping of Mobile Rhetoric.” (co-authored with MeredithZoetewey). Computers and Composition Online (Spring 2008).http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/zoetewey_sullivan/

“Academic Literacy Work in Distance Learning Factories: Perspectives in Popular Business Narratives.” In Pamela Takayoshi andPatricia Sullivan (eds.), Literacy, Technology, and Labor in the Twenty-first Century (pp. 229-257). Hampton Press, 2007.

“Literacy Work in a Technology-rich Culture: Issues at the Intersection of Labor, Technology, and Writing Instruction.” (co-authored with Pamela Takayoshi). In Literacy, Technology, and Labor in the Twenty-first Century (pp. 1-19). HamptonPress,2007.

"’Remapping Curricular Geography’: A Retrospection” (co-authored with James Porter). Journal of Business and TechnicalCommunication. 21 (1): 15-21.

“Feminist Cyborgs Live on the World Wide Web” (co-authored with Gail E. Hawisher). In Mary Hocks (ed.), Eloquent Images:Visual Rhetorics for Twenty-first Century Technologies (pp. 219-235). Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.

“Digital Archives and Public Domain Historical Works on the Teaching/Learning of Workplace Writing” (co-authored with JulieStaggers). In David Blakesley et al. Digital Publishing F5| Refreshed (pp. 122-150). West Lafayette: Parlor Press, 2003.Distributed online at parlorpress.com

“Practicing Safe Visual Rhetoric on the World Wide Web,” Computers and Composition, 18, 2 (2001): 103-121. [lead article].

“Institutional Critique: A Rhetorical Methodology for Change” (co-authored with James Porter, Stuart Blythe, Jeff Grabill, andLibby Miles), College Composition and Communication, 51, 4 (2000): 610-42.

• Won the 2001 Richard Braddock award for best article in College Composition and Communication.

“Into Print | Into Webs: The Consideration of Visual Rhetoric for Print and Online Philanthropic Documents.” Timothy Seilingand Ulla Connor (eds.), Writing, Language, and Philanthropic Discourse. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999.

“Fleeting Images: Constructions of Women on the Web” (co-authored with Gail E. Hawisher). In Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe(eds.), Passions, Politics, and 21st Century Technologies (pp. 268-291). Utah State University Press, 1999.


“Women on the Networks: Searching for an E-Space of Their Own” (co-authored with Gail E. Hawisher). In Susan Jarratt and LynnWorsham (eds.), Feminism in Composition Studies (pp. 172-197). New York: MLA Press, 1998.

“Technology, Education, and Workplaces of the Future: A Parent’s View.” In Mary Sue Garay and Stephen A. Bernhardt (eds.),English Teaching and the New Workplace (pp. 81-96). Albany: SUNY Press, 1998.

• Collection won the 1999 NCTE award for best collection in technical and scientific communication.

“Issues of Written Literacy and Electronic Literacy in Workplace Settings” (co-authored with Jennie Dautermann). In PatriciaSullivan and Jennie Dautermann (eds.), Electronic Literacies in the Workplace (pp. vii-xxxiii). Urbana: National Council ofTeachers of English Press, 1996.

• First Finalist, Ellen Nold Award for best publication in computers and writing.

“Working across Methodological Interfaces: A Postmodern Rhetoric for the Study of Computers and Writing in the Workplace”(co-authored with James E. Porter). In Patricia Sullivan and Jennie Dautermann (eds.), Electronic Literacies in theWorkplace (pp. 294-322). Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English Press, 1996.

• Won the 1997 NCTE award for best article on philosophy or theory of scientific and technical communication.

“Computer Technology and Collaborative Learning in College: Writing Instruction as Illustration.” In Kris Bosworth, SharonHamilton, and James Flannery (eds.), Collaborative Learning and College Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994.

“Repetition and the Rhetoric of Visual Design” (co-authored with James E. Porter). In Barbara Johnstone (ed.), Repetition inDiscourse: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, vol. 2 (pp. 114-129). Norwood: Ablex, 1994.

“Professional Communication.” In Alan C. Purves (general ed.), Encyclopedia of English Studies and Language Arts, vol. 2 (pp.949-951). New York: Scholastic, 1994.

“Research Design Issues for the Study of Electronic Discussions.” The Bulletin of the Association of Business Communication, 56, 2(June, 1993): 43-45.

“Remapping Curricular Geography: Professional Writing in/and English” (co-authored with James E. Porter). Journal of Businessand Technical Communication, 7, 4 (1993): 389-422.

• Selected by panel of editors as one of the best articles published in the journal’s history (2007)

“On Theory, Practice, and Method: Toward a Heuristic Research Methodology for Professional Writing” (co-authored with JamesE. Porter). In Rachel Spilka (ed.), Writing in the Workplace: New Research Perspectives (pp. 220-237). Carbondale:Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.

• Won the 1994 NCTE award for best article on philosophy or theory of scientific and technical communication.


• Reprinted in Central Works in Technical Communication (Oxford UP, 2004, pp. 300-315).

“Validity and Reliability as Social Constructions” (co-authored with Janice M. Lauer). In Nancy Roundy Blyler and CharlotteThralls (eds.), Professional Communication: The Social Perspective (pp. 163-176). Newbury Park: Sage, 1993.



“Qualitative Research in Technical Communication: Issues of Value, Identity, and Use” (co-authored with Rachel Spilka).Technical Communication, 39, 4 (1992): 592-606.

“Computer-aided Publishing: Focusing on Documents.” Computers and Composition, 10, 1 (1992): 135-149.

“Computer Classrooms and the Collaborative Education of Professional Writers.” SIGCUE Outlook, 21, 3 (1992): 55-58.

“Taking Control of the Page: Word Publishing as an Agenda Item for Teachers, Researchers, and Theorists of Electronic Writing.”In Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe (eds.), Evolving Perspectives in Computers and Composition Studies: Questions for the1990s (pp. 21-42). Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English, 1991. Additional role for volume: contributing editor(reviewed submissions and worked with two authors developing their essays)

“Collaboration Across Organizations: Contributions Outsiders Can Make to Negotiation During Composing.” TechnicalCommunication, 38, 4 (1991): 485-492.

“How Do Writers View Usability Information? A Case Study of a Developing Documentation Writer” (co-authored with James E.Porter). Asterisk (now Journal of Documentation), 14, 2 (1990): 29-35.

“User Testing: The Heuristic Advantages at the Draft Stage” (co-authored with James E. Porter). Technical Communication, 37, 1(1990): 78-80.

“Visual Markers for Navigating Instructional Texts.” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 20, 3 (1990): 255-268.

“Human-Computer Interaction Studies of Word Processing: An Introduction.” Computers and Composition, 6, 3 (August 1989):11-33.

• First Finalist, Ellen Nold Award for best publication in computers and writing (1988-1990).

• Reprinted in Susan Cochran-Miller and Rochelle Rodrigo (eds.) Rhetorically Rethinking Usability. Hampton Press, forrelease in 2009.

“What Computer Experience to Expect of Students Entering a Technical Writing Class: The Case of Purdue Students.” Journal ofTechnical Writing and Communication, 19, 1 (1989): 53-69.

“Beyond a Narrow Conception of Usability Testing.” IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication , 32, 4 (1989): 256-264.


“Desktop Publishing: A Powerful Tool for Advanced Writing Classes.” College Composition and Communication, 39, 3 (1988): 344-347.

“Writers as Total Desktop Publishers: Developing a Conceptual Approach to Training.” In Edward Barrett (ed.), Text, Context,and Hypertext: Writing with and for the Computer (pp. 265-278). Cambridge: The M.I.T. Press, 1988.

“How Do Users Read Computer Manuals? Some Protocol Contributions to the Writers’ Knowledge” (co-authored with Linda S.Flower). In Bruce T. Peterson (ed.), Convergences: Essays on Reading, Writing, and Literacy (pp. 163-178). Urbana:National Council of Teachers of English, 1986.

“Designing User Manuals for the Online Public Access Catalog” (co-authored with Peggy Seiden). Library HiTech, 4, 13 (1986):29-36.


• Won the 1987 NCTE award for best article in methods for teaching scientific and technical communication.

“Assessing Education Needs for OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs): A Case Study” (co-authored with Peggy Seiden). LibraryHiTech, 3, 10 (1985): 11-20.

“Beyond the Static Audience Construct: Reading Protocols in the Technical Writing Classroom” (co-authored with David D.Roberts). Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 14 (1984): 143-153.

“Why Write? A Reconsideration” (co-authored with Richard E. Young). In Robert J. Connors, Lisa Ede, and Andrea Lunsford(eds.), Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse (pp. 215-225). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984.

• Collection won the MLA's 1985 Mina Shaughnessy Award.

“A Case for Diagnosis in Technical Writing” (co-authored with David D. Roberts). Journal of Technical Writing andCommunication, 11 (1981): 35-43.

“Teaching the Writing Process in Scientific and Technical Writing Classes.” The Technical Writing Teacher, 8 (1980): 10-16.

“Female Writing Beside the Rhetorical Tradition: Seventeenth Century British Biography and a Female Tradition in Rhetoric.”International Journal of Women's Studies, 3 (1980): 143-160.

• Reprinted in: Jennifer A. Bostrom (ed.). (1996). Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, v. 30. Detroit: Gale Research.

“The Rhetoric Institute: Notes and Comments.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 6 (Summer, 1976): 41-48.

Conference Proceedings

“Visual Rhetoric, Grant Writing and the World Wide Web.” Working Papers on Language and Rhetoric of Fund Raising. Centeron Philanthrophy, Indiana University, Indianapolis. December 1997: 35-42.

“Multiple Methods and the Usability of Interface Prototypes: The Complementarity of Laboratory Observation and Focus Groups.”SIGDOC ’91 Conference Proceedings, 15 (1991): 168-174.

“Multimedia Computer Products and Usability Testing: Needed Research.” IPCC Conference Record (November 1991): 25-33.

“Future Writers and the Practices of Usability: Questions for Educators and Trainers.” Proceedings of the International TechnicalCommunication Conference, 38 (May 1991): RT 246-250.

“User Assessment as Arbiter of User Documentation Disputes: A Case Study.” Proceedings of the International TechnicalCommunication Conference, 36 (May 1989): WE 109-111.

“Supporting the Natural Evolution of Engineers Writing at the Machine” (co-authored with Kent D. Sullivan). Proceedings of theInternational Technical Communication Conference, 36 (May 1989): RT 72-75.

“Usability in the Computer Industry: What Contribution Can Longitudinal Field Studies Make?” IPCC Conference Record, NewYork (October, 1989): 12-16.

“User Protocols: Tools for Building an Understanding of Users.” IPCC ’88 Conference Record, Seattle (October, 1988): 259-263.


• Selected as one of the best papers.

“The Visual Dimensions of Meaning: Students’ Use of Visual Cues as They Start Technical Communication Courses.” Proceedingsof the International Technical Communication Conference, 35 (May, 1988): RET 127-130.

“Designing User Manuals for a Variety of Audiences: Accessing Information” (co-authored with Carol C. Janik). InternationalTechnical Communication Conference Proceedings, 31 (May 1984): WE 187-190.

“Writing for the Computer Industry: Issues in the Education of the Next Generation of Computer Manual Writers.” In PearlSaunders (ed.), Working Papers in Technical Writing. St. Louis: ATTW and National Council of Teachers of English, 1987.

Reviews & Notes

“Preface” Feminist Cyberscapes: Women, Cyberspace, and Composition Studies (Kristine Blair and Pamela Takayoshi,editors).Ablex Press, 2000.

“Colleagues Remember: Patricia Sullivan.” In Gail E. Hawisher, Paul LeBlanc, Charles Moran, and Cynthia L. Selfe (book authors)(1996), Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education, 1979-1994: A History (pp. 165-169).Norwood: Ablex.

“Foreword” The Computer and the Page (James Kalmbach, author). Ablex Press, 1997.

“Connections: New Ways of Working in the Networked Organization” (Sproull and Kiesler, authors). Technical CommunicationQuarterly, 2, 2 (1993): 224-226.

“Writing Academic Prose” (Schenck, author). The Technical Writing Teacher, 17, 1 (1990): 87-88.

“Computer Teachers Respond to Halio” (twenty authors, Slatin primary). Computers and Composition, 7, 3 (1989): 73-79.

“The Technician as Writer” (Brunner, Mathes, and Stevenson, authors). Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 10(1980).

Bibliographic Work

(contributing bibliographer). CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric. Cynthia Selfe and Gail Hawisher (eds.). Urbana:National Council of Teachers of English, volumes for 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994.

(contributing bibliographer). CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric. Erika Lindemann (ed.). vol 3. Urbana: NationalCouncil of Teachers of English, for 1990.

(contributing bibliographer). Longman Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric. vol 1 and 2. Erika Lindemann (ed.). New York:Longman, volumes for 1987-1988 and 1989.


Books in Lauer Series

I am series co-editor (with Catherine Hobbs, Thomas Rickert, and Jennifer Bay) of a book series honoring Janice M. Lauerpublished at Parlor Press. Titles include:

James Berlin. (2003/1998). Rhetoric, Poetics, and Cultures. expanded edition.

Lynn Z. Bloom. (2008). Writing Without Borders: Writing and Teaching Writing in Troubled Times.

Debra Frank Dew and Alice Horning. (2007). Untenured Faculty as Writing Program Administrators: Institutional Practices and Politics.

Michelle F. Eble and Lynee Lewis Gaillet. (2008). Stories of Mentoring: Theory and Praxis.

Richard Leo Enos. (2008). Roman Rhetoric: Revolution and the Greek Influence. expanded edition.

Theresa Enos and Shane Borrowman. (2008). The Promise and Perils of Writing Program Administration.

Helen Foster. (2007). Networked Process: Dissolving Boundaries of Process and Post-Process.

Brent Henze, Jack Selzer, and Wendy Sharer. (2008). 1977: A Cultural Moment in Composition.

Lori Ostergaard, Jeff Ludwig, and Jim Nugent. (2009). Transforming English Studies: New Voices in an Emerging Genre.

Barbara L’Eplattenier, ed. (2004). Women Writing Program Administrators in the Progressive Era.

Susan H. McLeod and Margot Iris Soven. (2006). Composing a Community: A History of Writing Across the Curriculum.

Work In Progress

(article under review) “Inspecting the Shadows of Past Classroom Practices: Tracings from a Technical Writing Course in theEarly Twentieth Century.”

(article, accepted) “Twenty-five Years of Usability: Reflections on the Origins of Critical Practices” IEEE Transactions onProfessional Communication. To be included in a special issue on twenty-first century usability.

(proceedings, accepted) “Design-based Research to Improve an Innovative Training Product” [co-authored with Peter Fadde] forProceedings of AECT Conference.

(co-editor with Jenny Bay, journal special issue) “Technology Disruptions and Professional Writing Pedagogy” is being preparedfor The Writing Instructor.

(online article) “Video Traditions and Web Writing: Integrating New Theory and Composing Processes into Professional WritingInstruction.” Co-authored with Peter Fadde. To appear in The Writing Instructor.

(co-author with Samantha Blackmon, book) Digital Writing and Rhetoric for the Series in Reference Guides to Rhetoric andComposition. Proposal and two chapters drafted.

“Cartographies of a Field: Locating Computers and Composition Studies on the Web,” under preparation for Computers andComposition.


Presentations___________________________________________________________________________

National and Regional Research Presentations

Invited Talks & Workshops

“Rhetoric, the Visual, and Instructional Video,” Southern Illinois University, May 2008.

“Making Rhetoric Matter in Multimedia Composition,” Digital Media and Composition. Ohio State U, June, 2006

“Visual Rhetoric and the Working Technical Communicator.” Hoosier Chapter of the Society of Technical Communicators, Fort Wayne.October 8, 2003.

“Visual Rhetoric and the Perils of Microsoft PowerPoint.” Workshop presentation. Computers and Writing Conference, West Lafayette. May2003.

“Rhetoric and the Assessment of Multimedia.” Workshop presentation. Conference on College Composition and Communication. New YorkCity. March 2003.

“Business Narrative on E-Learning: No Teachers, No Classrooms, Self-Learners.” Featured Address to Watson Conference, University ofLouisville, October 2002.

“Issues in Graduate Education.” (co-coordinator) CCCC, Chicago, March 2002.

“Stereotypes All the Way Down: Body Markers, Technology, and Writing Online at Work.” Featured Address to the Watson Conference.University of Louisville, October 2000.

“Emerging Issues in Graduate Education.” Workshop presentation at Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC),Atlanta, March 1999.

“A Moment in the Study of Literacy: The 1998 Watson Conference.” Featured Address to the Watson Conference. University of Louisville,October 1998.

“Visual Rhetoric and Philanthropic Documents: Issues for Print and Beyond.” Featured Speaker. The Language and Rhetoric of Fund Raising.11th Annual Symposium. Indiana University Center on Philanthropy. Indianapolis, August, 1998.

“Visual Rhetoric, Grant Writing and the World Wide Web.” Planning Conference on Grant Writing for Non-profit Sectors. Center onPhilanthrophy, Indiana University, Indianapolis, October 1997.

“Computers, Culture, and Electronic Writing.” Featured Speaker. Summer Seminar in Rhetoric. Millikin University, June 1997.

“Visual Rhetoric, Grant Writing and the World Wide Web.” Planning Conference on Grant Writing for Non-profit Sectors sponsored by thePhilanthrophy Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, October 1997.

“Interface Usability Issues for Dow Jones’ Information Retrieval for Windows.” Address to Product Development Managers, Dow Jones,Princeton, June 1995.

“Interdisciplinary Methods for the Study of Writing: Situating our Practices.” Address to the Center for the Study of Writing, University ofIllinois, September 1994.


“Heuristic Method in Professional Writing Research.” CCCC, Nashville, March 1994. Featured panel invited by Program Chair.

“Technical Communication: Staffroom Interchange.” Invited as Critic. One-day workshop, CCCC, Nashville, March 1994.

“Issues in Collaborative Writing in the Disciplines: Electronic and F2F.” Featured Speaker. Allerton Reunion, University of Illinois, September1993.

“Computer Support for Collaboration in the Professional Writing Classroom.” Invited as speaker and participant. Conference on ComputerSupport for Collaborative Learning, Xerox Corporation and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, September 1991.

“Usability of Interfaces and Documentation.” Invited to present one day tutorial. Association for Computing Machinery, Conference onComputer-Human Interaction, Austin, April 1989.

“Integrating Computers into the Teaching of Technical Writing.” Invited lecture. Midwest Roundtable for Teachers of Business and TechnicalWriting, West Lafayette, October 1985.

Conference Presentations

“Design-based Research to Improve an Innovative Training Product” [co-presented with Peter Fadde] Association for EducationalCommunications and Technology, Louisville, October 2009.

“Between Scylla and Charybdis: Navigating Institutional Spaces” [paper co-authored with Michele Simmons read by session chair] Conferenceon College Composition and Communication (CCCC), San Francisco, March 2009.

“Still in Search of Rhetorical Methodology for the Field of Composition Studies: A Progress Report,” CCCC New Orleans, April 2008.

[accepted, written, but not presented: hospitalized]. “Feminist Appeals for Aid: Argument in Katrina Videos on YouTube,” Feminism andComposition, Little Rock, October. 2007.

“Walter Ong on Sound,” Conference on Computers and Writing, Detroit, May 2007.

Presenter, Working Group on Metrics for Digital Scholarship, Computers and Writing, Detroit, May 2007.

“Why We Should Not Develop a Corpus for Graduate Exams in Rhetoric and Composition,” Paper to the Doctoral Consortium, CCCC, NewYork, March 2007.

“Pathetic Appeals in Professional and in Public Discourse,” CCCC, New York, March 2007.

“Metaphoric Gaze: Information Ecology, Information Architecture, and Computer Information Environments.” CCCC, Chicago, March 2006.

“Public Portrayals of How Women are (Becoming) Unwired: A Focus on Advertisements,” Conference on Feminism and Rhetoric, Houghton,MI, October 2005

“Graduate Education and Web Presentations.” Roundtable of the Doctoral Consortium. CCCC, New York City, March 2003.

“Community Literacy, Service Learning, and Rhetorical Theory.” CCCC, Denver, April 2001.

“The Spaces Between: Professional Writing, Community Literacy, and Rhetorical Theory.” CCCC, Minneapolis, April 2000.

“Women, Geopolitics, and the Online Topographies of Rhetoric and Composition.” CCCC, Atlanta, March 1999.


“Institutional Critique as a Spatial Practice in Composition Studies,” CCCC, Chicago, March 1998.

“How Postmodern Mapping Functions in Critical Research Projects: A Demonstration.” CCCC, Phoenix, March 1997.

“The Changing Faces of Discourse: Women, E-Spaces and the World Wide Web.” CCCC, Milwaukee, March 1996.

“Online Lives: Conversations with Women in Composition Studies.” Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 1995. (paper spokenby co-author Gail Hawisher)

“Methodology and Critical Research Practices in Computers and Writing: Studying Teachers in Networked Classrooms.” CCCC, Washington,DC, March 1995.

“Coming to Grips with the Internet: Implications for Technical Communication Professionals and Technical Communication Educators.”CCCC, Washington, DC, March 1995.

“Online Collaboration: Methodological Contrasts between Computers and Writing Research and Traditional Usability Research.” Computersand Writing Conference, Columbia, MO, May 1994.

“Uses of Method in Computers and Composition Studies.” Computers and Writing Conference, Ann Arbor, May 1993.

“Dangers and Delights: Issues in the Understanding of Electronic Classrooms.” CCCC, San Diego, April 1993. (accepted but canceled due toillness)

“Technical Communication: New Approaches to its Teaching.” One-day workshop, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Louisville,November 1992.

“Professional Writing as Source for Workplace Assignments.” Mini-workshop, NCTE, Louisville, November 1992.

“Coming in Late: The Newcomer to Ongoing Electronic Discussions.” Computers and Writing Conference, Indianapolis, May 1992.

“The Archaeology of Electronic Classrooms.” CCCC, Cincinnati, March 1992.

“Methods, Motives, and Procedures for Developing Technical Communication Curricula.” One-day workshop, NCTE, Seattle, November 1991.

“Multimedia Products and Single Media Usability Tests.” IEEE Conference on Professional Communication, Orlando, November 1991.

“Focus Groups as Complementary Methods for Laboratory Studies in Usability.” ACM SIGDOC ’91, Chicago, October 1991.

“Qualitative Research in Computers and Writing.” (one-day workshop) CCCC, Boston, March 1991.

“Competing Meanings for Professional Writing: Implications for Discipline Formation.” CCCC, Boston, March 1991.

“A Vision for the Twenty-first Century: What Place Technical Communication?” NCTE, November, 1990.

“How Writers Can Use the Feedback from Usability Tests.” ACM SIGDOC ’90, Little Rock Arkansas, November, 1990.

“How One Writer Used the Results of a Usability Test.” ACM SIGDOC ’90, Little Rock Arkansas, November, 1990.

“Composing as Negotiation of Management, Engineering and Teaching Views.” CCCC, Chicago, March 1990.

“The Promise of Field Studies in Usability Research.” IEEE Conference on Professional Communication, October 1989, New York.


“User Assessment as Arbiter of User Documentation Disputes: A Case Study.” International Technical Communication Conference (ITCC),Chicago, May 1989.

“Supporting the Natural Evolution of Engineers Writing at the Machine.” ITCC, Chicago, May 1989.

“Evaluation of Documentation: Survey of Industry Practices.” CCCC, Seattle, March 1989.

“Writing at the Machine: Longitudinal Variables.” CCCC, Special Session on Research, Seattle, March, 1989.

“Users and Usability: On Learning about Users.” ACM SIGDOC ’88, Ann Arbor, October 1988.

“User Protocols: Tools for Building an Understanding of Users.” IEEE Conference on Professional Communication, Seattle, October 1988.

“Writing Apprehension and Computer Apprehension in Advanced Writers.” CCCC, Special Session on Research, St. Louis, March 1988.

“Problems, Tasks, Data, and Solutions: Matches and Mismatches that Mold the Planning of Technical Writing.” CCCC, St. Louis, March 1988.

“The Visual Dimensions of Meaning: Students’ Use of Visual Cues as They Start Technical Communication Courses.” ITCC, Philadelphia, May1988.

“Writing for the Computer Industry: Issues for the Next Generation of Computer Manual Writers.” CCCC, Atlanta, March 1987.

“Interpreting the Results of a Scientific Inquiry.” Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, October 1986.

“Planning an Online Search: Strategies of New and Experienced Searchers.” American Educational Research Association (AERA), SanFrancisco, April 1986.

“Presenting Research: The Case of Negative Findings.” CCCC, New Orleans, March 1986.

“Hearing User Feedback: Protocols and the Evaluation of Functional Documents.” CCCC, Minneapolis, March 1985.

“Learning to Search an Online Catalog: Models of New Users.” AERA, New Orleans, April 1984.

“The Research We Would Like to Print.” CCCC, New York, March 1984.

“What Methods are Available?” NCTE, Denver, November 1983.

“Designing Short Courses for Business and Industry.” Wyoming Conference on Freshman and Sophomore English, Laramie, July 1992.

“Can There Be a Heuristic for Teaching Technical Editing?” CCCC, San Francisco, March 1982.

“Problem Solving and the Teaching of Technical Writing.” ITCC, Pittsburgh, May 1981.

“Pre-Writing as a Theory of Invention.” NCTE, San Francisco, November 1979.

“Emphasizing Process in the Technical Writing Class.” Wyoming Conference on Freshman and Sophomore English, Laramie, July 1979.

“Using Writing in the First Literature Class.” Wyoming Conference on Freshman and Sophomore English, Laramie, July 1978.

“Pre-Writing as a Theory of Invention.” CCCC, Denver, April 1978.

“Character Sketch as a Technique in Teaching Students from Orally-based Cultures.” CCCC, Kansas City, April 1977.


Consulting

Usability Consulting with Business Information Services, Dow Jones & Co., Inc. (Princeton, NJ), 1995-1997 [proprietaryagreement]

• Expert evaluation of information retrieval product interfaces for usability concerns• Laboratory and field testing of products

Usability Consulting with Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA), 1987-1994 [proprietary agreement]

• Expert evaluation of various product interfaces for usability concerns• Research feasibility of using field tests• Laboratory and field testing of products and their documentation• Research Reviews• Meta-analysis of four years of testing results and Development of Usability Results database• Course in Informal Usability

Technical Writing Consultation with:

Pritsker and Associates; Home Hospital; General Foods; Mercy Hospital (Pittsburgh); Computer Associates (Chicago);Westinghouse Corporation; American Association of Judges (Washington); Communication Design Center (Pittsburgh);Pennsylvania Home for the Blind; Mellon Institute (Pittsburgh); OCLC (Dublin, OH); Dieli and Associates (Seattle)

Grants

PLACE Grant, CLA, Purdue. “At SEA: Writers Engaging the Community.” Spring 2008 (one of 5 co directors), $12,000.

Discovery Park Competition, “Center for Digital Publishing,” Spring 2003 (David Blakesley and Dino Felluga directors). Researchassociate (expert on usability and digital archiving), $33,000.

Graduate School, Purdue University, Spring 2002. Co-drafter of proposal to improve minority recruitment in English. $10,000.

Graduate School, Purdue University, Spring 2000. Won competition among programs for a special fellowship I could award to anincoming student. $15,000.

Special Initiative Competition, Spring 1997, “Initiative to Improve Instruction in Business Writing,” $70,000 initial ($40,000recurring), with Jim Porter and Johndan Johnson-Eilola.

SLA Dean, Fall 1996, “Curriculum and Administration Development Grant for Business and Technical Writing,” $20,000, withJim Porter and Johndan Johnson-Eilola.

SLA Dean, Fall 1996, Faculty Development Grant, “Web Materials for Teaching,” $750.

Fund for the Improvement of Secondary Education, Spring 1996, “International Communication: Belgium, Finland, and the UnitedStates” (Ulla Connor, Director). $159,000 (Purdue portion $36,000). not funded, but finalist.

SLA Dean, Fall 1993, Faculty Development Grant, “Collaborative Computing Online,” $750.


SLA Dean, Spring 1993, Faculty Development Grant, “Electronic Publishing,” $750.

Apple Computer, Inc., 1990, “Integrated Hypermedia Development Lab,” with G. Allen, $60,000, for equipment.

Purdue Research Foundation, 1989, XL Grant, “New Conceptions of Usability,” $4,000.

Microsoft Corporation, 1988, “The Possible Contributions of Longitudinal Field Study to Usability,” $2,000 in software andmaterials.

Society for Technical Communication, 1988, “Usability Testing: A Survey of Industry Practices,” $2,000 for materials and mailing.

Fund for the Improvement of Secondary Education, co-proposer, 1988, “Writers, Computers, and the Classroom: A LongitudinalAssessment,” finalist, but not funded. $192,447.

HSSE Dean, 1986, “Computer Curriculum Development Grant, ”$1,800 for t.a. salary and software.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 1983-1984. “Electronic Library Project.” Thomas Michalak and Mark Kibbey, principals. Researchassociate. $12,000 to support dissertation project.

National Endowment for Humanities, 1977, Summer Institute: “Modern Theories of Invention” (Richard Young, University ofMichigan), $3,500.

Summer Faculty Research Award, 1978, University of Wyoming, $2,500.

Teaching, Program Development,

& Administration

Teaching ______________________________________________________________________________

Courses Taught (Purdue)

• = originated courseEnglish 203 Introduction to Research for Professional Writers•English 306 Introduction to Professional WritingEnglish 396k/309 Computer-aided Publishing •English 421 Technical WritingEnglish 424 Writing for the Computer Industry •English 488 Internship in Professional Writing •

English 502t Practicum in Teaching Technical WritingEnglish 502c Practicum in Teaching Writing for the Computer Industry •English 502p Practicum in Teaching Computer-aided Publishing •English 505m Practicum in Teaching Professional WritingEnglish 589 Independent ReadingEnglish 590 Independent Writing


English 605 Computers and the Study of Language and RhetoricEnglish 624 Composition Studies: Modern PeriodEnglish 625 Composition ResearchEnglish 626 Composition Studies: Postmodern TheoryEnglish 680/596d Methods for Qualitative Research in CompositionEnglish 680e Critical Qualitative Methods in Composition•English 680f Postcritical Qualitative MethodsEnglish 680/596p Professional Writing Theory •English 680v Visual Rhetoric in a Technological Age•English 680d Distance Education and Writing TheoryEnglish 680c Rhetorics of Cyberspace•English 680r Public Rhetorics•

Interdisciplinary Team Taught Classes:Technical Graphics 416 (Computers and Publishing), with James O’Neill, Technical Graphics

English 625 (Composition Research), with William Asher, Educational Psychology

Carnegie Mellon University: first year composition; planning and testing documents •; professional writing

University of Wyoming: first year composition; first year composition for Native American students; advanced composition;technical writing; survey of women’s literature; world literature survey through the renaissance; writing lab; teachingassistant supervision

St. Louis University: first year composition; basic writing; Upward Bound Bridge Program in English

Course Materials

Distributed beyond Purdue

Delicious Historical Links. A network of links to primary historical sources useful to research in the history of rhetoric, sorted inrelation to time periods, subject areas, authors, and inclusion in historical works. over 1000 links.http://delicious.com/sullivanatpurdue

Along the Trail of the Underground Railroad. A print and online booklet that highlights historical landmarks along the bicycle trailcommemorating the Underground Railroad. http://www.digitalparlor.org/rhetcomp/uggr/

Informal Usability. Materials for in-house course. Microsoft Corporation has offered this course two-three times annually sinceNovember 1993. 55 pp. text; 40 pp. of overheads.

Usability of Interfaces and Documentation (co-authored with Mary Dieli and Joseph Dumas). Materials for one-day tutorial for theACM Sig-CHI, Austin, April, 1989. Materials also distributed by Association for Computing Machinery in 1989 and 1990.108 pp.

Distributed at Purdue in support of mentoring

Academic Job Search. Printed material related to developing documents in support of academic employment searches. 320 pp.


Developed in 2003, and new materials added in: 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004.

Writing at Work. Printed course materials for English 421. Major Revision, 1994. 131 pp.New Course Materials also developed in: 1996, 1995, 1992, 1991, 1989, 1988, 1986, 1985.(teachers had input until 1992 version)

421 Online Materials.a) NVO account. Online teaching materials, utilities, student examples maintained in the nvo account on the instructionallabs’ server. Updated continuously from 1993-1996.b) Orientation disk. Teaching materials helpful to first time teacher. 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992.

421 Electronic Coursepack. Printed course materials for teachers in computer classrooms. 85pp.New versions in: 1990 (Michael Gos assisted), 1987.Materials moved online in 1992.

Writing for the Computer Industry. Printed course materials for English 424. 1992 version 235 pp.New Course Materials developed in: 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987

Introduction to Usability Testing. 2 one-hour videotaped lectures that introduced usability testingto classes I do not teach. 1987. Class assignments and handouts accompanied the tapes.Title of Lecture 1: “Usability Testing of Computer Documentation”Title of Lecture 2: “Turning User Feedback into Better Documentation”

Dissertation Committees

Chair for:

Jennie Dautermann, Ph.D., April 1991. Writing at Good Hope Hospital: A Study of Negotiated Discourse in the Workplace. (FloridaInternational University)

• finalist, NCTE Promising Researcher Award• dissertation published by Ablex (1996)

Nancy Allen, Ph.D., December 1991. Collaborative Voices: Rhetorical and Textual Features of Collaboratively Written Reports.(Eastern Michigan University)

Robert Johnson, Ph.D., December 1991. Rhetoric and Use: Toward a Theory of User-Centered Computer Documentation.(Michigan Technological University)

• dissertation published by SUNY (1998)

Elizabeth Hoger, Ph.D., September 1992. Writing in the Discipline of Music: Rhetorical Parameters in Writings about MusicCriticism. (Western Michigan University)

• Lilly Post-Doctoral Fellow, Valparaiso University

Marjorie Rush Hovde, Ph.D., October 1994. The Knowledgeable Practice of Computer Documentation Writers: Tactics forConstructing User and Software Images and for Negotiating Organizational Boundaries. (Indiana University-PurdueUniversity at Indianapolis)

• STC fellowship for dissertation work

Pamela Takayoshi, Ph.D., December 1994. Theorizing Technocentricism in Computers and Composition: Conflicting Values,Competing Visions, and Pedagogical Intervention. (Kent State University)


Joanne Addison, Ph.D., June 1995. Emancipatory Research and Composition Studies: Feminist Postmodern, Cultural Studies, andTeacher Research Methodologies. (University of Colorado-Denver)

• dissertation published by Sage (2000)

Jeff Grabill, Ph.D., April 1997. Situating Literacies and Community Literacy Institutions: A Critical Rhetoric for InstitutionalChange. (Michigan State University)


Stuart Blythe, Ph.D., May 1997. Conceptualizing the Technologies of Writing Center Practices. (Indiana University-Fort Wayne)

Bill Hart-Davidson, Ph.D., August 1999. Writing Networks: A Participatory Design Initiative for Preparing Teachers of ProfessionalWriting for Networked Environments (Michigan State University)

Michelle Comstock, Ph.D., August 1999. Re-mapping the Territory of “Youth”: Youth-generated Sites of Rhetorical, Cultural, andPolitical Practice (University of Colorado, Denver)

Michele Simmons, Ph.D., June 2000. Building Public Rhetorics: Toward a Critical Approach to Public Participation inEnvironmental Risk Decisions. (Miami University of Ohio)


Baotong Gu, Ph.D., September 2000 From the Oracle Bones to the Computer: A Rhetorical Perspective on Writing TechnologyDevelopment in China (Georgia State University)

• dissertation published by Parlor Press (2009, in press)

Carlos Salinas, Ph.D., August 2000. Toward a Critical Rhetoric of Configured Images: Design/Writing within a Corporate Website.(University of Texas at San Antonio)

Lynn Sykes, Ph.D., January 2001 Collaboration in a Group of Graduate Writing Teachers (College of DuPage)

Teresa Fishman, Ph.D., January 2002 Writing Distance Education: Select Histories of Distance Education Writing Courses andTheir Effects on Ongoing Distance Education Writing Course Pedagogy (Clemson University)

Scott Jones, Ph.D. April 2002 The Role of Electronic Mail in Workplace Writing (Indiana University, Kokomo)

Karen Kopelson, Ph.D., August 2002 Teaching Trouble: Performativity and Composition Pedagogy: Composing Connections(University of Louisville)

• chapter from dissertation won Braddock Award, 2003

Robert Bergland, Ph.D., October 2002 Downsizing and Upgrading: A Manufacturing Firm’s Move to Electronic Distribution ofDocuments (Missouri Western University)

• Won Fulbright to Teach in Hungary, 2004-5

Nicole Brown, Ph.D., June 2003 Constructing “Community” Online: A Discussion of Metaphor, Meaning, and Rhetorical Action(Western Washington University)

Christine Norris, Ph.D., August 2003 The Rhetoric of Cookbooks in Eighteenth Century England (University of Nevada, Reno)

Bridget Fahey Ruetenik, Ph.D., August 2003 Visual Rhetoric, Media, and Rhetors: Creating Spaces for Deliberation

Kevin DePew, Ph.D., October 2003 The Rhetorical Process of Digital Subjectivities: Case Studies of International TeachingAssistants Negotiating Identity with Digital Media (Old Dominion University)


Julia Romberger, Ph.D., August 2004 The Ecology of a Digital Environment: Using Ecofeminist Theory to Understand MicrosoftWord's Rhetorical Design (Old Dominion University)

Michael Pennell, Ph.D., April 2005 English in the "Hurricane Winds of Change": Labor Market Intermediaries and Literacy in TwoIndiana Counties (University of Rhode Island)

Meredith Zoetewey, Ph.D., August 2005 Mobile Writing Technologies and the Dis/Location of the Computer Classroom (Asst. Prof.Rose Hulman Institute of Technology)

Serkan Gorkemli, Ph.D., August 2005 The Globalization of Digital Technologies and LGBT Identities: The Turkish CollegiateLesbigay Population's Access to the Internet and the Formation of Lesbigay Identities and Communities in Turkey(University of Connecticut, Storrs)

Julie Woodford Staggers, Ph.D., February 2006 Learning to Love the Bomb: Secrecy and Denial in the Atomic City, 1943--1961(University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

• Winner, James A. Berlin Award for Best Dissertation, Conference on College Composition and Communication

Sean Conrey, Ph.D. April 2006 Coming to Terms with Place: Toward a Phenomenological Technique of Rhetorical Placemaking(St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia)

Kate Agena, Ph.D., June 2006 Process and Power: Building Strategies for Technical Communicators to Effect OrganizationalChange (IBM, San Jose)

Lisa McGrady, Ph.D., December 2006 Writing Together with Technology: Technological Literacy and Collaboration inProfessional Writing Student Teams (Palm Beach Atlantic University)

Huiling Ding, Ph.D., June 2007 Rhetoric of a Global Epidemic: Intercultural and Intracultural Professional Communication aboutSARS (Clemson University)

• Editor’s Choice, Young Scholar Award, Written Communication (2009)• Honorable Mention, Outstanding Dissertation in Technical Communication, CCCC (2008)

Karl Stolley, Ph.D., June 2007 An Art of Emergent Visual Rhetoric (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Tim Krause, Ph.D., March 2008 Strategic Web Design: Practice and Peril in User-centered Web design (University of Wisconsin,Stevens Point)

Paul Lynch, Ph.D., June 2008 Entertaining Moralities: Casuistry and the Teaching of Writing (St. Louis University)

Jingfang Ren, Ph.D., August 2008 Sustaining Webs of Connections: A Qualitative Meta-Analysis of Research in ProfessionalWriting (1970-2006)(Michigan Technological University)

Maria Lombard, Ph.D., February 2009 Professional Writing, Technology, and the Rhizomatic Transmission of Knowledge

in progress:Kim Ballard, A.B.D.Tyson Sims, A.B.D.David Albin, A. B. D.Mark Sidey, A.B.D.Joy Santee, A.B.D.Karen Schiler, A.B.D.Morgan Sousa, A.B.D.Mark HannahTom SuraKate Tanski


Co-chair for:

Elizabeth Huettman, Ph.D., December 1990 Writing for the Unknown Reader: An Ethnographic Case Studying a Business Setting.(New Zealand)

Tarez Graban, Ph.D., June 2006 Towards a Feminine Ironic: Understanding Irony in the Oppositional Discourse of Women fromthe Early Modern and Modern Periods (Indiana University)

• Chapter from dissertation published in Rhetorica

Member for:

Michael Carter, Ph.D., 1986 Genesis of Written Discourse: Features of the Art (North Carolina State University)

Stephen Merrill, Ph.D., 1986 Audience Adaptiveness in Job Application Letters Written by College Students: An Exploratory Study(Microsoft University, Microsoft Corporation)

Sister Patricia Combies, C.S.J., Ph.D., April 1987 (Carnegie-Mellon) Growth of Professionalism Among College Teachers ofComposition, 1885-1927 (Salve Regina College)

Mary Murray, Ph.D., December 1987 Measuring Insight in Student Writing (Cleveland State University)

Linda Calendrillo, Ph.D., July 1988 The Art of Memory and Rhetoric (Georgia Southern University)

Margaret Morgan, Ph.D., November 1988 Four Dimensions of the Collaborative Composing Processes of Student Writers (Universityof North Carolina at Charlotte)

Mark Simpson, Ph.D., August 1989 Shaping Computer Documentation for Multiple Audiences: An Ethnographic Study (retiredfrom Microsoft Corporation)

Catherine Hobbs Peaden, Ph.D., September 1989 Language and Rhetoric in Locke, Condillac, and Vico (University of Oklahoma)

Tony Silva, Ph.D., April 1990 A Comparative Study of the Composing of Selected ESL and Native English Speaking FreshmanWriters (Purdue University)

Randy Brooks, Ph.D., March 1991 Rhetorical Theory in Business Communication Curricula from 1900 to 1980: An Historical Critique.(Millikin University)

Greg Wickliff, Ph.D., August 1991 Perception Theory and the Non-fiction Writings of Nabokov (Assoc. Prof. University of NorthCarolina , Charlotte)

Christine Persak, Ph.D., December 1991 Representing the Social Order: Rhetoric and Victorian Hierarchy, 1839-52 (Ferris StateUniversity)

Sonya Schrag, Ph.D., April 1992 The Discourse of Music Scholars (University of Wisconsin , LaCrosse)


Sheila Ewing, Ph.D., June 1992 The Effects of Time and Instruction on Writing Performance of Eighth-Grade Students in WritingAssessment Situations (retired District Supervisor, Lawrence Township Schools)

Michael Gos, Ph.D., June 1992 Computer Anxiety and the Computerized Writing Classroom: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study(Lee College)

Tharon Howard, Ph.D., July 1992 The Rhetoric of Electronic Communities (Clemson University)

Nancy DeJoy, Ph.D., October 1992 Rhetoric of Critique/Critique of Rhetoric: Toward Critical Discursive Practices in the Academy(Michigan State University)

Draga Vidakovic (Education), Ph.D. June 1993 Effects of Collaborative Learning on the Understanding of Functions in Calculus(Mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Diane Atkinson (Education), Ph.D., July 1993 A Meta-analysis of Recent Research in the Teaching of Writing: Workshops,Computer Applications, and Inquiry (Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University)

Myrna Harrienger, Ph.D., July 1993 Medicine as Dialogic Rhetoric and Elderly Ill Women (deceased)

Haixia Wang, Ph.D., August 1993 Chinese Public Discourse: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Newspaper People’s Daily (University ofWisconsin, LaCrosse)

Karen Griggs, Ph.D., June 1994 Audience Complexities in Administrative Law: An Historical Case Study of an EnvironmentalPolicy (retired)

Kristine Blair, Ph.D., June 1994 The Politics of Popular Culture in the Composition Classroom: Toward a Pedagogy of Resistanceand Transformation (Bowling Green State University)

Becke Hettich, Ph.D., July 1994 Writing Apprehension: A Critique of Terminology

Nancy McCoy, Ph.D., October 1994 The Literature Curriculum in the Composition Classroom, 1885-1918 (retired)

Janice Tovey, Ph.D., June 1995 A Visual Rhetoric for Electronic-Aided Publishing (Eastern Carolina University)

Susan Latta, Ph.D., June 1995 Women and Writer’s Block: An Exploration of Social and Cultural Influences upon the WritingProcesses of Five Graduate Student Writers (Indiana State University)

Elizabeth Sanders Lopez, Ph.D. September 1995 The Geography of Computer Writing Spaces: A Postmodern Analysis (GeorgiaState University)

Dan Lupo, A.B.D., Ph.D., February 1996 Negotiating Context: A Multiple Case Study of Professional Writing Majors in Transitionfrom Academic to Workplace Contexts (minister, Dallas)

Edwin Nagelhout, Ph.D., April 1996 Writing and Professional Apprenticeship: Case Studies of Biology Graduate Students' Entryinto the Scientific Community (University of Nevada, LasVegas)

Lisa Langstraat, Ph.D., August 1996 Feeling the Power: Toward a Feminist Politics of Affect for Cultural Studies Approaches toComposition (Colorado State University)


Bonita Selting, Ph.D., October 1997 The Entry of Student Discourse into Academic Conversation: An Inquiry into Student Identitiesin Composition Classrooms (University of Missouri)

Richard Selfe, Ph.D., Michigan Technological University, August 1997 (Ohio State University)

Teresa Henning, Ph.D., October 1998 (Southwest State University, MN)

Nan Uber Kellogg, Ph.D., January 1999 Moments of Encounter, Modes of Engagement: A Multiple Case Study of Four Colleges andFour Anglo Composition Instructors Who Teach Native American Students

Thomas Moriarty, Ph.D., April 1999 South Africa’s Rhetoric of Reconciliation: Changes in ANC and Pretoria Government Rhetoric,1985-1991 (Salisbury State University)

Libby Miles, Ph.D., April 1999 Building Rhetorics of Production: An Institutional Critique of Composition Textbook Publishing(University of Rhode Island)

Ann Marie Mann Simpkins, Ph.D. August 1999 The Professional Writing Practices and Dialogic Rhetoric of Two Black WomenPublishers: Discourse as Social Action in the Nineteenth Century

Shayela Mian, Ph.D., September 1999 Literacy for Bangladesh Students (EFL teacher, Tokyo)

Lori Baker, Ph.D., October 1999 Collaboration and Gender Communication Traits: The Negotiation of Authority in a CompositionClass (Southwest State University, MN)

Barbara L'Eplattenier, Ph.D., October 1999 Investigating Institutional Power: Women Administrators During the Progressive Era,1890-1920 (University of Arkansas, Little Rock)

Laurie Cubbison, Ph.D., April 2000 Validating Illness: Internet Activism in Response to Institutional Discourse (RadfordUniversity)

Jonathan Bush, Ph.D., April 2001 Teaching Writing in an Middle School: A Multiple Case Study of Pedagogical Content Knowledge,Context, and Beliefs (Western Michigan University)

Amy Kimme Hea, Ph.D., June 2001 Entanglements: Re-articulating Discourses and Practices of Web-based Teaching and Learning(University of Arizona)

Jennifer Morrison, Ph.D., October 2001 Purdue University’s School of Liberal Arts Writing Intensive Intitiative: A Case ofProfessional Development for Teaching Assistants (Student Services, Buffalo State University)

Karen Bishop, Ph.D., December 2001 Documenting Institutional Identity: Strategic Writing in the IUPUI Comprehensive Campaign(Purdue University, Calumet)

Molly Flaherty Haas, Ph.D., December 2002 A Case Study of Grant Proposal Writing in a NonProfit Workplace: Writing to KeepFamilies Off the Street (Franklin Pierce College)

Matthew Abraham, Ph.D., April 2003 The Rhetoric of Resistance and the Resistance to Theory (DePaul University)

Erin Karper, Ph.D., April 2003 "Ordinary People Do This": A Rhetorical Case Study of Novice Web design (Niagara University)


Karen Kuralt, Ph.D., December 2003 Collaborative Literacy in the Writing Classroom: A Theory of Pedagogy (University ofArkansas, Little Rock)

Jennifer Courtney, Ph.D., August 2004 The Rhetoric of Domestic Advice: Ethos and Metaphor (Rowan University)

Jessie Moore, Ph.D., August 2004 Mapping the Geographies of Second Language Writing (Elon University)

Xiaoye You, Ph.D., April 2005 Writing in the Devil’s Tongue: A History of English Composition in China (Pennsylvania StateUniversity)

Scott Baxter, Ph.D., April 2005 Hacker Writers: A Study of the Literacy Practices of Selected Writers in a Computer ScienceResearch Laboratory (American University, Lebanon)

Jessica Clark, Ph.D., June 2005 An Investigation of the Quantity and Quality of Collaboration in Writing Center Tutorials(Christopher Newport University)

Amy Ferdinant Stolley, Ph.D., April 2007 (Re)Placing Grammar in the Composition Classroom (St. Xavier University)

Kristen Seas, Ph.D, May 2008 Of a Certain Persuasion: Rhetoric, Complexity, and the Emergence of Subjectivity (University ofNorth Carolina, Wilmington)

Jennifer Consilio, Ph.D., June 2008 Attitudes of African American Vernacular Speakers Towards Technology (Lewis University)

in progress:

Cassandra Canada, A.B.D.Joseph Wenig, A.B.D.Susana Gonzalez, A.B.D.Meg Hughes Morton, A.B.D.Marc Santos, A.B.D.Jennie Blankert Calcamuggio, A.B.D.Allen Brizee, A.B.D.Jaci Wells, A.B.D.Jeremy Tirrell, A.B.D.Kristine Johnson, A.B.D.Juliette Ludeker, A.B.D.Nathaniel Rivers, A.B.D.Christina Saidy, A.B.D.Jo DoranLars Soderlund

M.A. Committee Member for:

Michael Gos, M.A. Thesis, 1986

Recognition for Teaching

Award of Appreciation. MARC-AIM Program for Minority Scholars. 1991.


Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of English. 1989; 2007. In 1990 process changed to self-nomination and I neverentered. While I was hospitalized in 2007 the department committee accessed my evaluations, gave me the departmentalaward and nominated me for the College award.

Program Development & Administration _____________________________________________________

Director, Rhetoric and Composition Graduate Program (1998 - )(note: on sabbatical in 2004; hospitalized for Fall 2007)

Students (currently 50 students: 2 MA and 48 PhD)

Recruit New Graduate Students -- chair admissions; handle all correspondence; set up campus visits; assemble incomingclass

Communicate with prospective students -- have new student email list to get students acquainted/handle questions;promote the program through brochures at conferences; develop recruitment information for web page

Coursework

help students orient themselves to program and to coursework, fitting it with their interestshandle course advising and registration problemshelp with sorting through requirements, forms, and plan of studyhelp find financial support

Progress through Degree

I have developed the review, convinced the faculty to support/participate, gathered information about all students,and am completing the reviews. It was piloted in 2006 (suspended while I was ill, and to be reinstated Fall 2009)All students who are pre-prospectus are reviewed by me; after A.B.D., students are reviewed by their dissertationchair. The review is focused on academics and professional development and includes a written review and oralmeeting.

Dissertation Workrun post-prelim groups for students who have passed the Rhetoric and Comp Primary Areagroup 1: pre-prospectus (getting started, committee selection, prospectus, and job prep) group 2: job search (weekly meetings that handle all aspects of searching and give specific

feedback on vitas, letters, dissertation summaries, web pages, and writing samples) Have produced a guide for job seeking that is more than 300 pages (2003 and ongoing)

Placement and Mentoring of Alumnihelp students look for work (see post-prelim group 2)developed and run the Making Writing Pedagogy Visible Project (an archive of high quality pedagogical materials

developed by our students that supports their efforts to seek employment)help alumni with problems that arise in their jobs and with decisions to move

Success while I have been director:

awards for scholarship:Braddock Awards to alums (Blythe, Carter, Grabill, Kopelson, Miles)


Berlin Awards to alums (Miles, Staggers)Best Book Awards to alums (Johnson, Takayoshi, Atwill)Kinneavy Awards to alums (McComiskey, Kopelson)Fulbrights to alums (Schaub, Bergland)Nold Award to alums (Grabill)Ohmann Award to alums (Matsuda)Pickett Award to students (Grabill, Simmons)Burns Award to alums (Ding, honorable mention)

program/department/school leadership:alums as asst deans (Morgan, Dautermann)alums as department heads (Johnson, Miller, Calendrillo, Miles, Sidler, Baker)alums as WPAs and WC directors (Jablonski, Matsuda, Bishop, McComiskey, DeJoy, Clark, Jenkins,Karper, L’Eplattenier)

job placement: 100% success in job academic searches for graduates pursuing more than local positions (all but 2tenure leading; both tenure track within two years)

students’ scholarly accomplishments: more than 80% have at least one publication when they begin the job searchin their fourth year of the Ph.D. program; 100% have more than three national conference presentations

improvement in recruiting: percentage of admits has decreased (over 40% when I became director, 2007 and 2008just over 15%); numbers of applications have increased 50%; percentage of unprepared applicants has decreased(now at less than 10%)

Curriculum and Faculty

Course Offerings and Scheduling -- balance student needs and requirements with faculty schedules and needs; developlong-range plans; develop proposed schedules in coordination with other adjacent programs

Curricular Development -- developed new secondary areas of study:

Rhetoric, Technology, and Digital WritingPublic Rhetoric

Faculty -- recognize the work of the faculty for the program; support faculty development (mentoring toward promotion;recommendations, reading manuscripts, etc.); work to get needed faculty for the program (e.g., Target of Opportunityhire)

Library Holdings -- order books and dissertations for library, particularly areas without faculty coverage

Communication

Promotion of Program -- update materials; respond to information requests/surveys; represent program; deal with visitors

Image -- design and update web page for program -- http://rc.english.purdue.edu

Within Programassemble and publish RC Notes (3 times yearly)run various Email lists


coordinate the contest for the Lauer Awarddisseminate information to graduate students, faculty, and alumni

organize CCCC Alumni Reunion

Fund-raising

Lauer Award -- with Bud Weiser initiated award and raise money for this yearly dissertation award

Hutton and Berlin Lectures -- with Bud Weiser I raise money for these bi-ennial memorial lectures

Grantsproposed reinvestment grant to Minority recruitment and mentoring (not funded)won grant to fund minority fellowship (2001, 2007, 2008, 2009)assisted in writing a minority recruitment grant that was funded (2003)

Technical and Professional Writing (1985-1997)

Director, Technical Writing

Ran the service course in technical writing (Engl 421) for the University

(develop curriculum and materials; train and supervise teachers; improve computer facilities; handleadministrative problems)

Encouraged and taught undergraduates who aimed to become technical communicators

(develop appropriate curriculum; improve computer integration into curriculum; teachclasses; train teachers of classes; staff courses; meet with students; help students locate internships and otherlearning opportunities)

Worked with graduate students preparing to teach technical and professional writing

(develop appropriate curriculum; teach courses; meet with students; encourage conferenceparticipation; encourage research; help students locate research sites in industry)

Professional Writing Major

Assisted in the origination of the major in 1985

Directed revisions for the Professional Writing Major in 1989 and in 1995

Proposed four new courses: English 203 (core), English 306 (core), English 309, and English 424

Produced explanatory materials for Professional Writing Major (sent to prospective employers) in 1991, 1989, 1987

Graduate Students in Professional and Technical Writing

Instrumental in establishing a secondary field in Professional and Technical Writing for Ph.D. students

Coordinated the new secondary field


Taught three core courses in that secondary field

Evidence of Program Success in 1997

Engl 421 taught exclusively in computer classrooms since 1991 (first writing class taught exclusively in computerclassrooms)

6 professional writing major courses taught in computer classrooms

4 winners of Della Whittaker Scholarships in the 7 years students have entered the competition

Recognition of the undergraduate major as a legitimate program for technical communication by the Society for TechnicalCommunication

100% placement of graduate students who want to teach technical and professional communication

1 graduate student won STE Fellowship for Dissertation Support

6 or more conference papers per year given by graduate student staff from 1989-1997

16 dissertations completed in professional/technical communication by 1997, with 5 underway

Instructional Computing (1985-1996)

1985-1996: General Teacher Training

assisted faculty and students in learning technology needed to conduct classes in computer classroomsmentored new teachers of technical writing in using computer to teach writingmentored new teachers of professional writing classes in using computers to support those classesattended many classes and learned more about teaching in computer classrooms

1988-1996: PUCC Facilities

worked with PUCC to negotiate the use of their facilitiesplanned the Heavilon 227 labscheduled department courses into all PUCC labs (1986-1994)

Note: as of 1993, English was the largest user of PUCC's undergraduate labs in the Liberal Arts College

1988-1996: Uses of Mainframes

helped involve department in Internet uses (particularly electronic mail)started and own several electronic discussion lists PURTOPOI (1989-), PURWRITE (1989-1994),

CYBERU-L (1993-1995)moved teaching materials for professional writing to campus serverhelped students in Engl 421 exploring the resources online for their majors and developing their own home pages

1990-1993: Co-Director, Hypermedia Development and Testing Laboratory (Heavilon 208, English and Audiology)

successfully sought funding for hypermedia lab to be used to develop and test educational software and teaching materialsfor computer classroomsbuilt and maintained lab

Note: in 1993, English and Audiology dissolved their partnership; Heavilon 402 houses


English's portion of the equipment, which is used for teacher development and usability

1987-1990: Macintosh Facilities

sought Macintosh facilities for publishing needs of professional writingnegotiated with Technical Graphics, Math, and PUCC to use their facilitiesdeveloped curricula for publishing in professional writingtrained teachers

1985-1990: Coordinator, NCR Classroom (Heavilon 208, English)

started facility (oversaw remodeling, equipment and software purchases, operations policies, etc.)oversaw say-to-day operations (5000 hours average student contact per semester)developed curriculum in technical writinginvolved other programs in the use of computers for teaching (business writing; English education)trained teachers

Service--Professional& Local

Service to the Profession __________________________________________________________________

Editorial Work

Series Co-Editor. Janice M. Lauer Series for Work in Rhetoric and Composition. Parlor Press.

Contributing Editor, Evolving Perspectives in Computers and Composition Studies: Questions for the 1990s. Gail Hawisher andCynthia Selfe (eds.). Advances in Computers and Composition, number 2. Urbana: NCTE and Computers andComposition, 1991.

Editorial Board Member, Computers and Composition, 1989-

Associate Editor, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 1983-1990revised format of journal twicecopy-editing and production work

Reviewer for Academic Presses:NCTE Press -- technical communication and computers and writingAblex Press -- computers and writingHampton Press -- computers and writing

Reviewer for Journals:Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 1987-Computers and Composition, 1988-IEEE Transactions for Professional Communication, 1989-1994Journal of Documentation, 1993-1996Management Communication Quarterly, 1986-1987


JAC (Journal of Advanced Composition), 1996-1998TCQ (Technical Communication Quarterly), 1996-1997

Service to National Organizations:Co-Coordinator, Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition, 2001-2005NCTE Committee on Scientific and Technical Communication, member, 1987-1996; chair 1990-1993NCTE Committee on Instructional Technology, member 1991-1996Co-coordinator, Program for the Empirical Research Division, CCCC 1995Ad hoc Committee to Review the Future of the CCCC Bibliography Project, CCCC, 1994Chair, Selection Committee for Hugh Burns Award for Best Dissertation in Computers and Composition, 1990-1992;1997-2001; 2003; 2004; 2009Chair, Selection Committee for Ellen Nold Award, 2006

Program and Faculty Review:External Reviewer, Graduate Programs in Technical Communication and Rhetoric, Michigan Technological University,October 1995

Site Reviewer, State of Ohio Grants for Outstanding Program Achievement, University of Cincinnati Professional WritingProgram, 1988

External Reviewer for Tenure & Promotion:Clarkson University (2)Colorado State UniversityCornell UniversityDePaul UniversityEast Carolina UniversityGeorgia State UniversityIUPUI (2)Louisiana State University (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2)Michigan Technological UniversityNorth Carolina State UniversityPennsylvania State University (2)University of Arkansas, Little RockUniversity of Colorado-Denver (2)University of Central FloridaUniversity of Florida (2)University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignUniversity of MemphisUniversity of MinnesotaUniversity of Minnesota, DuluthUniversity of South FloridaUniversity of UtahUniversity of Washington (2)

Conference Program Selection Committees:Conference on Systems Documentation, Association for Computing Machinery 1995, 1991, 1990

Sig Doc 89+ Hypertext Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, 1994, 1992, 1989

Division C (Learning), American Educational Research Association, National Convention, 1988, 1987


CCCC, 1998 (methodology/empirical research), 1996 (methodology/empirical research), 1994 (empirical research), 1993(technical writing)Computers and Writing, 1997, 1992

Midwest Roundtable for Teachers of Business and Technical Communication, 1986, 1985

Indiana Department of Education:

External Advisory Committee, Indiana Department of Education, Technology Preparation Curriculum Initiative, 1987-1989

Grant Review Committee, Indiana Department of Education, “Workplace Internships for Educator Renewal,” November,1988

Regional Technical Communication Organizations:

Judge for Publications Contest, Hoosier Chapter, Society for Technical Communication, 1989-1990; 1985-1987

Co-director, 1986 Midwest Roundtable for Teachers of Business and Technical Communication

Secretary-Treasurer, Hoosier Chapter, Society for Technical Communication, 1987-1988

Purdue Representative, Hoosier Chapter, Society for Technical Communication, 1986-1988

Service to Purdue _______________________________________________________________________

Standing Committees:

Advanced Writing (1991-1997; chair 1991-1993, 1996-1997)Composition Committee (1985-1993)Computer Committee (1987-1989)Experimental Courses (1985-1986; 1988-1989)Graduate Admissions (1990-1993; chair 1992-1993)Graduate Studies Committee (Spring 1988; Spring 1996; Spring 1998-present (Chair for 1998-1999 and Fall 1999))Liberal Arts Excellence in Teaching Committee (2000-2003)Liberal Arts Grievance Committee (1991-1993)Policy Committee (faculty-elected governance committee) (1991-1993; 1994-1996; 1998-2000)Undergraduate Studies (1988-1991; 1993-1995)

Ad Hoc Committees:Study Committee for Remodeling of HSSE Library, University Libraries (1997-1999)NCAA Self Study Committee, Academic Integrity Subgroup, University Athletics (1997-1998)Instructional Computing Labs, School of Liberal Arts (1991-3)Professional Writing to revise major, chair (1988-1989)Technology for Strategic Planning, University Libraries (1992-1993)

Revision of the Online Catalog Guide in the Engineering Library (1989)

Search Committees:Chair, History of Rhetoric Search (2002-2003; 2003-2004)Chair, Head Search Advisory Committee (2001-2002)Chair, Contemporary Rhetoric Theory Search (2000-2001)Member, Target of Opportunity Hire (1999-2000)


Member, Professional and Technical Writing Search (1999-2000)Chair, Professional and Technical Writing Search (1996-1997)Member, Rhetoric Theory Search (1994)Chair, Professional and Technical Writing Search (1993-1994)Chair, Professional and Technical Writing Search (1992-1993) (funding removed)Chair, Professional Writing Search (1987-1988)Member, Business Writing Search (1987-1988)

Board of Advisors, Sycamore Review (1992-2006)

Coordinator of Committee for Secondary Area in Professional and Technical Writing (1995-1998)

Coordinator of Committee for Secondary Area in Rhetoric, Technology, and Digital Writing (1999-)

Judge, McKee Award, Literary Awards (1985-1994; 1996; 1999; 2005; 2009); Smart Award (1994); Teaching Award (1998)

Presented about Computers and Instruction in English, President’s Review of the HSSE, February 24, 1989

Rhetoric Program:

Admissions to Graduate Program (1988-1990, 1993-1997, 2005; chair, 1996 and 1998-2003, 2006-present)Advisor, Masters’ Students, Rhetoric and Composition (1986-)Advisor, Ph.D. Students, Rhetoric and Composition (1998-2004; 2005-)Graduate Exams (member of all since 1985; chair 1988, 1993, 1996- 2001, 2003, 2005-)Drafter, Proposal for Secondary Area in Rhetoric, Technology, and Digital Writing (1999)Drafter, Proposal for Secondary Area in Professional and Technical Writing (1994)

Interdisciplinary Lectures

“Online Archives in Rhetoric and Composition,” Talk to Prof. Rose’s Archives Class, February 2007.

“Information Architecture, Program Data, and Building Records.” Talk to Prof. Rose’s Writing Program Administration Seminar,November 2005.

“Conference Papers” presentation in English 501, Professor Astell, Fall 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003; 2005; Professor White, 2001, 2002.

“Choices: Planning your Professional Life to Tenure.” Talk to graduate students leaving Purdue, May 2003 and June 2004, 2005.

“Professional Development in Professional Writing.” Talk to Professional Writing Program, February 2003.

“Graduate Program Director as WPA,” lecture in English 680W, Professor Rose, Spring 2002, Fall 2005.

“Starting Well: Materials for Teachers of Women Students in Online Writing Classes,” Center for Undergraduate InstructionalExcellence Lecture, School of Liberal Arts, November 1998.

“Workshop on Developing Professional Teaching Portfolios,” Department of English, April 1998.

“Crafting Your Professional Life,” lecture/workshop for Engl 502a, April 1997 and April 1998.

“Publishing Edited Collections,” Rhetoric and Composition Workshop on Professional Development, Spring 1995.

“Computers and Composition: Their Past, Our Future,” lecture for Engl 591 (Introduction to Composition Theory), Professor Lauer,2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992.

“Computers and Writing at Purdue: Exploring Your Options,” workshop for MARC-AIM, 1991, 1990.


“Orientation to Teaching Writing with the Macintosh,” workshop with teachers of News writing, Professor Rowan, coordinator, 1990.

“Publishing at the Machine: On Producing Camera-Ready Articles with WORD,” Engl 515 (Writing for Specialty Publications),Professor Porter, 1989, 1988.

“Why Writing is Essential to the Engineering Process,” EE 645 (Immigration Course for New Graduate Students in ElectricalEngineering), 1988.

“Advances in Computing that Make Computers More Attractive to High School Teachers,” Engl and ED 391 (Advanced Compositionfor Teachers), Professor Yancey, 1988.

“High School Teachers, Computers, and Writing Instruction,” Engl and ED 391, Professor Evans, 1990, 1989, 1986.

“A Challenge: Assuring That Your Functional Documents Are Understandable,” Comm 632 (Science in the Media), Professor Rowan,1987.

“The Macintosh as a Publishing Environment,” Talk to Purdue Publications Department, January 1987.

“Engineers Writing at the Computer,” EE 400 (Senior Seminar in Electrical Engineering), 1987.

“Why Inexperienced Library Patrons Have Trouble Searching Online Catalogs,” Talk to the Purdue Professional Library Staff,November 1986.

“A Few Key Words about Writing and Computer Science,” CS 404, Professor Dunsmore, 1986.

“On Beginning a Computer Classroom,” New Horizons in Teaching, Meeting of Secondary School Teachers, West Lafayette, October1986.

“Issues in Computing and Writing.” Theories of Rhetoric Seminar, Professor Lauer (director), Purdue University, June 1986.

“Technical Writing: Its Rhetoric and Research.” Theories of Rhetoric Seminar, Professor Lauer (director), Purdue University, June1985.

“Why Computer Scientists Write, and How,” CS 404 (Software Engineering), Professor Dunsmore, 1985.

updated: 4/04/09