“‘Not Favors, but Fair Play’: Black Technical Communicators in Mid-20th-Century America,” Technical Communication, accepted and forthcoming
“Technical Editing and Women Were Made for Each Other’: Ethaline H. Cortleyou’s Career Advice to Women in the Sciences.” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 54.3 (2024), 282-303.
“History,” in H. Yu & J. Buehl (Eds.), Keywords in Technical and Professional Communication (Boulder, CO: WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2023), 135-144.
“The Mandative Subjunctive in Technical Writing, or the Gap between Subconscious and Conscious Grammatical Knowledge,” Technical Communication, 68.2 (2021): 59-84 (co-authored with Elizabeth Roberson).
Technical Editing: An Introduction to Editing in the Workplace (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020) (co-authored with Donald H. Cunningham and Joyce M. Rothschild).
Transmedia, Participatory Culture, and Digital Creation, special issue of Technical Communication, 66.3 (2019) (co-edited with Daniel Reardon and David Wright). Winner of the 2021 CCCC Award for Best Original Collection of Essays in Technical or Scientific Communication.
“‘Don’t Be a Dilbert’: Transmedia Storytelling as Technical Communication during and after World War II,” Technical Communication, 66.3 (2019), 209-229. Winner of the 2021 CCCC Award for Best Article Reporting Historical Research in Technical and Scientific Communication. [download]
“‘To Promote that Demand’: Toward a History of the Marketing White Paper as a Genre,” Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 32.1 (2018), 113-147 (co-authored with David Wright).
“The Three Pillars of Sustainability as a Special Topic of Invention in the Marketing Communication of Plastic-Packaging Companies,” in D. Ross (Ed.), Topic-Driven Environmental Rhetoric (New York: Routledge, 2017), 234-258 (co-authored with Shristy Bashyal).
“Quest for the Happy Ending to Mass Effect 3: The Challenges of Co-Creation with Consumers in a Post-Certeauian Age.” Technical Communication Quarterly, 26.1 (2017), 42-58 (co-authored with Dan Reardon and David Wright).
“Eleanor McElwee and the Formation of IEEE PCS.” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 4.2 (2015): 104-133.
“Women Organizers of the First Professional Associations in Technical Communication.” Technical Communication Quarterly, 24.2 (2015): 121-146
“Children Communicating Food Safety / Teaching Technical Communication to Children: Opportunities Gleaned from the FIRST Lego League 2011 Food Factor Challenge,” in D. Wright (Ed.), Communication Practices in Engineering, Manufacturing, and Research for Food, Drug, and Water (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2015), 63-88 (co-authored with Havva Tezcan-Malone).
“Elsie Ray and the Founding of STC.” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 43.2 (2013): 121-143.
“Light’s ‘Technical Writing and Professional Status’: 50 Years Later. ” Technical Communication, 59.1 (2012): 29-31, E13-21. (co-authored with Patricia Hallier).
“The Role of Historical Study in Technical Communication Curricula.” Programmatic Perspectives, 4.1 (2012): 42-87 (co-authored with David Wright).
“The First Wave (1953-1961) of the Professionalization Movement in Technical Communication.” Technical Communication, 58.4 (2011): 300-322. [download]
“A History of the Future: Prognostication in Technical Communication.” Technical Communication Quarterly, 20.4 (2011): 443-480. (co-authored with Dr. David Wright, Gowri Saraf, Tessa Long, Irangi Egodapidya, and Elizabeth Roberson)
“‘Chrysler’s Most Beautiful Engineer’: Lucille J. Pieti in the Pillory of Fame.” Technical Communication Quarterly, 19.2 (2010): 144-183. Winner of the 2012 CCCC Award for Best Article Reporting Historical Research in Technical and Scientific Communication.
“A Recursive Sequence of Technical Marketing Communication Assignments to Facilitate Active Learning.” In S. Southard & M. Place (Eds.), 2007 Proceedings of Missouri State’s 4th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Technical Writing. Springfield, MO: Missouri State University, 2008 (co-authored with Dr. Kathryn M. Northcut).
“The Use of Playing Cards to Communicate Technical and Scientific Information.” Technical Communication, 55.1 (2008): 49-60.
“Historical Studies of Technical Communication in the United States and England: A Fifteen-Year Retrospection and Guide to Resources.” IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 50.4 (2007): 333-351.
“Technical Marketing Communication: A Sequence of Three Exercises.” In S. Southard & M. Place (Eds.), 2006 Proceedings of Missouri State’s 3rd Annual Conference on the Teaching of Technical Writing. Springfield, MO: Missouri State University, 2007 (co-authored with Tara E. Bryan).
“Learned Correctors as Technical Editors: Specialization and Collaboration in Early Modern European Printing Houses.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 20.4 (2006): 389-424.
Dictionary of British Classicists. 3 vols. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2004 (sub-editor in charge of Renaissance rhetoric, translations, and textbooks).
British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500-1660, Second Series. DLB 281. Detroit: BCL & Gale Research, 2003 (volume editor).
British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500-1660, First Series. DLB 236. Detroit: BCL & Gale Research, 2001 (volume editor).
“Technology and Society: Redefining Human Life: Characterizing Life in the Age of Modern Technology.” Journal of College Science Teaching, 30.4 (2000): 262-66 (co-authored with Dr. Todd T. Eckdahl).