My short piece with Christopher Soper has appeared in the spring 2016 issue of The Second Draft. The full issue is available here on the Legal Writing Institute page for The Second Draft. You can find the text of our article here: The article describes the objectives, development, and some preliminary results of a program… Continue reading “The Structured Writing Group: A Different Writing Center?” published
Here are the slides for my talk on Friday, April 8, 8:00-9:15, at the CCCC in Houston. Please let me know if you want to see supporting materials, including the journal article on CPR theory that I’m preparing for submission now!
Below is a link and preview for the flier for one of my spring courses. I have open slots in it, so if you know of any Georgia Tech students interested in law and technology, forward this to them, please!
I’m delighted to report that The Second Draft (published by the Legal Writing Institute) has accepted an article I wrote with Professor Christopher Soper from the University of Minnesota Law School for publication in its spring 2016 issue! Titled “The Structured Writing Group: A Different Writing Center?,” the article describes the objectives, development, and some… Continue reading “The Structured Writing Group: A Different Writing Center?” accepted for publication by The Second Draft
I submitted proposals, either jointly or on my own, to present at five conferences next spring and summer. So far, four of the five have been accepted, and I have not yet heard on the fifth, but I’m almost dreading it will be accepted, too. I posted about RSA 2016 and CCCC 2016 before. The new… Continue reading Perhaps too many conferences? But external deadlines are nice
My proposal to speak at the Rhetoric Society of America conference here in Atlanta in May 2016 has been accepted. Here is the abstract: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. The more things change, the more the stay the same. The French proverb counsels one not to expect too much from change. But… Continue reading RSA 2016–La même chose: Lawyers’ use of exemplary reasoning in persuasive writing
The organizers have accepted the roundtable proposal that I spearheaded for the 4Cs in Houston in April 2016. “New/now cognitivism: Strategies for theory and ‘literate action’” will include presentations from five scholars: Deborah Rossen-Knill, University of Rochester; Erin Williams, University of Saint Francis; Airlie Rose, UMass-Amherst; Jose Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso; and me. Dr. Peter… Continue reading CCCC 2016 in Houston: New/now cognitivism proposal accepted
The diversity of research in scientific and technical communication (S&TC) is both exciting and maddening: exciting because it permits researchers to approach the subject of S&TC using a wide variety of theoretical orientations, methodological approaches, and objects of study and analysis; maddening because the diversity makes it difficult to pin down “the” discipline of S&TC.… Continue reading Introducing “disciplinary, professional, and technical communication” (DP&TC)
I’m scheduled to defend my dissertation on April 24, 2015, at 10:00a.m., Rm. 125, Nolte Center, 315 Pillsbury Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455. The event is open to the public; the public portion of the defense will not last more than an hour. Here is the abstract for the diss. If you are really curious and plan… Continue reading Dissertation defense scheduled April 24
This is a presentation I’m giving today as a job talk at a university. It summarizes a part of my dissertation results and puts them in the context of my proposed “cognitive pragmatic rhetorical” (CPR) theory. It provides only a very preliminary overview of CPR theory; you’ll have to wait until that part of the… Continue reading Gender/Genre (job talk presentation)