I am currently the director of ISUComm, a university-wide curricular initiative to strengthen the teaching of communication, especially written, oral, visual, and electronic modes. I am interested in new media theory and digital rhetoric and methodologies for assessing integrated multimodal communication. I am an avid gardener, genealogist, and collector (books, DVDs, watercolors).

Office/Office Hours

• office: 437 Ross
• office hours: Tues.-Wed.-Thur. 2-3
• office phone: (515) 294-3584
• email: donpayne@iastate.edu

Interests

• new media theory
• computer-based pedagogy
• classical rhetoric
• multimodal communication assessment
• web design

Selected Professional Activities

• "Integrating TA Expertise into a Twenty-First-Century Communication Curriculum, Council on Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (October 13, 2006), San Francisco, CA .
• “Digitizing a Day: Rhetorical Theory in Street Clothes,” Conference on Composition and Communication (March 20–23, 2002), Chicago, IL.
• “Electronic Portfolios: Genre, Database, or Interface?” Conference on Composition and Communication (March 19–22, 2003), New York, NY.
• "The Cybercinematic Techniques of New Media," Computers and Writing Conference (May 24, 2003) West Lafayette, IN.
• “Constructing Communication-Friendly Computing Environments within a State University,” presentation at the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Lewes, DE, October 15–17, 1998.
• “UCES: An Undergraduate CSE Initiative,” (with Thomas L. Marchioro II and David M. Martin), Computational Science & Engineering, 2, no. 3 (Fall 1995), 69–73.
• “Centers for Applied Writing: A Conceptual Model,” (with Charles Kostelnick, Richard Freed, and Thomas Kent), The Technical Writing Teacher, 17, no. 2 (Spring 1990), 136–49.
• “Computer-Extended Audiences for Student Writers: Some Theoretical and Practical Implications,” in Lisa Gerrard, ed., *Writing at Century’s End: Essays on Computer-Assisted Composition* (New York: Random House, 1987), 21–26.

Affiliations

• Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
• Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication
• Conference on College Composition and Communication
• Rhetoric Society of America
• Society for Technical Communication

Degrees

• Ph.D., English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• A.M., English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• B.A., English, German, University of Louisville