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Lindeman receives Outstanding Dissertation Award
Many graduates of our Ph.D. program in Rhetoric and Professional Communication have been recognized by CCCC.
Neil Lindeman has won the 2006 CCCC Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication. In the eight years that this award has been given, RPC graduate students at Iowa State have won it two other times and in another year received honorable mention.
Neil’s dissertation is “Blurred boundaries of science and advocacy: The discourse of scientists at a conservation organization," and he is an assistant professor in the Technical and Professional Writing Program at San Francisco State University.
Donna Kain won the award in 2004 for her dissertation, "Negotiated spaces: Constructing genre and social practice in a cross-community writing project.” She is an assistant professor in the Department of English at East Carolina University in Greeneville, North Carolina.
Clay Spinuzzi won the award in 2000 for his dissertation, "Designing for lifeworlds: Genre and activity in information systems design and evaluation." He is an associate professor in the Division of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Texas at Austin.
In 2002, Dave Clark received Honorable Mention for his dissertation, "A rhetoric of boundaries: Living and working along a technical/non-technical split." He is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
