Scholarship

Publications

Price Herndl, Diane. Thinking Through Breast Cancer. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, expected publication, 2010.

Goodwin, Jean, and Lee Honeycutt. "When Science Goes Public:  From Technical Arguments to Appeals to Authority." Studies in Communication Sciences, 9.2, 19-30.

Graham, S. Scott. "Agency and the Rhetoric of Medicine: Biomedical Brain Scans and the Ontology of Fibromyalgia." Technical Communication Quarterly, 18.4 (2009). forthcoming.

Cruse, Rick, and Carl Herndl. "Cellulosic Biofuels Impact on Soil and Water Resources." Forthcoming in Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.

Herndl, Carl, and Greg Wilson. "Reflections on Field Research and Professional Practice." The Journal of Business and Technical Communication 21.2 (2007): 216-26.

Russell, David, and David Fisher. "Online, multimedia case studies for professional education: Revisioning concepts of genre recognition. Proceedings of SIGET, 4th Simpósio International de Estudos de Genêros Textuais. Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina, Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brasil, 2007.

Russell, David. "Rethinking the Articulation Between Business and Technical Communication and Writing in the Disciplines: Useful Avenues for Teaching and Research." Journal of Business and Technical Communication 21 (2007): 248-277.

Wilson, Alyson, Laura McNamara, and Greg Wilson. "Information Integration for Complex Systems." Reliability Engineering and System Safety 92 (2007): 121-130.

Wilson, Greg, and Carl Herndl. "Boundary Objects as Rhetorical Exigence: Knowledge Mapping and Interdisciplinary Cooperation at the Los Alamos National Laboratory." The Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 21.2 (2007): 129-54.

Herndl, Carl, Robert Anex, Robert Brown, Rick Cruse, Steve Fales, and Gene Takle. "Defining a Future Bioeconomy for the Nation: Bio-Renewable Resources and Complex Systems." Published on the National Conference on Science Policy and the Environment 6th conference website, 26-27 January, 2006.

McAndrews, G.M., J. Goodwin, and R.E. Mullen, "Using Environmental and Ethical Issues for Debate in an Introductory Agronomy Course," National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Journal 2006.4 (2006): 54-61.

Michalak, Sarah, and Gregory Wilson. "Modeling and Parameterization for Smallpox Simulation Study." Statistical Methods in Counterterrorism: Game Theory, Modeling, Syndromic Surveillance, and Biometric Authentication. Eds. Alyson Wilson, Gregory Wilson, and David H. Olwell. New York: Springer, 2006. 199-214.

Price Herndl, Diane. "Our Breasts, Our Selves: Identity, Community, and Ethics in Cancer Autobiographies." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 32.1 (Autumn 2006): 221-45. Winner of the Florence Howe Award (Women's Caucus for the MLA, Best Essay in Feminist Criticism of the Year).

Wilson, Alyson, Gregory Wilson, and David H. Olwell, eds. Statistical Methods in Counterterrorism: Game Theory, Modeling, Syndromic Surveillance, and Biometric Authentication. New York: Springer, 2006.

Burkart, Michael, David James, Matthew Liebman, and Carl Herndl. "Impacts of Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems on Nitrogen Dynamics and Soil Erosion in Western Iowa Watersheds." Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, G01009, doi:10.1029/2004JG000008, 2005.

Graham, Margaret, and Neal Lindeman. "The Rhetoric and Politics of Science in the Case of the Missouri River System." Journal of Business and Technical Communication 19.4 (2005): 422-448.

Price Herndl, Diane. "Disease v. Disability: The Medical Humanities and Disability Studies." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association 120.2 (2005): 593-8.

Keller-McNulty, Sallie, Alyson Wilson, and Greg Wilson. "The Impact of Technology on the Scientific Method." Chance 18.4 (2005): 4-8.

Michalak, Sarah, and Greg Wilson. "Reconsidering Smallpox." Chance 18.1 (2005): 38-43.

Honeycutt, Lee. "Literacy and the Writing Voice: The Intersection of Culture and Technology in Dictation." Journal of Business and Technical Communication 18 (2004): 294-327.

Price Herndl, Diane. "Johnny Mnemonic Meets the Bimbo: Feminist Pedagogy and Postmodern Performance." The Teacher's Body. Eds. Diane Freedman and Martha Stoddard Holmes. Albany: State U of New York P, 2003. 59-68.

Wilson, Greg. "Tides of Change: Is Bayesianism the New Paradigm in Statistics?" Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 113.1 (2003): 371-4.

Wilson, Greg, and Julie Dyke Ford. "The Big Chill: A Conversation with Seven Professionals Ten Years After They Graduated with Master’s Degrees in Technical Communication." Technical Communication 50.2 (2003): 145-159.

Price Herndl, Diane. "Reconstructing the Posthuman Feminist Body Twenty Years after Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals." Enabling the Humanities: A Sourcebook for Disability Studies in Language and Literature. Eds. Rosemarie Thomson Garland, Brenda Brueggeman, Sharon Snyder. New York: MLA, 2002. 144-55.

Russell, David. Writing in the Academic Disciplines: A Curricular History. 2nd Ed. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002. (two chapters focus on writing across the science and technology curriculums.)

Herndl, Carl. "Rhetoric of Science as Non-Modern Practice." Professing Rhetoric: Selected Papers from the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Eds. Frederick Antczak, Cinda Coggins, and Geoffrey Klinger. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002. 215-22.

Russell, David. "Looking Beyond the Interface: Activity Theory and Distributed Learning." Understanding Distributed Learning. Ed. Mary Lea. London: Routledge, 2001: 64-82.

Wilson, Greg. "Technical Communication and Late Capitalism: Considering a Postmodern Technical Communication Pedagogy." Journal of Business and Technical Communication 15.1 (2001): 72-99.

Goodwin, Jean. "Three Faces of the Future." Argumentation and Advocacy 37 (2000): 71-85.

Herndl, Carl, Barbara A. Fennell, and Carolyn R. Miller. "Understanding Failures in Organizational Discourse: The Accidents at Three Mile Island and the Shuttle Challenger." Textual Dynamics of the Professions: Historical and Contemporary Studies of Writing in Professional Communities. Eds. Charles Bazerman and James Paradis. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1990. 279-305.

Herndl, Carl, and Robert L. Brown. "Beyond the Realm of Reason: The Extremist Environmental Rhetoric of the John Birch Society." Green Culture: Rhetorical Analyses of Environmental Discourse. Eds. Carl Herndl and Stuart C. Brown. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1996. 213-35.

Herndl, Carl, and Stuart C. Brown, eds. Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1996. Winner of the 1997 National Council of Teachers of English award for the best collection in scientific and technical communication.

Herndl, Carl. "Cultural Studies and Critical Science." Understanding Science. Ed. Jack Selzer. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1993. 61-81.

Presentations

Goodwin, Jean.  "The Authority of the IPCC First Assessment Report and the Manufacture of Consensus."  National Communication Association.  Chicago, November 2009.

Goodwin, Jean. "The Authority of Wikipedia." Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation. Windsor, Ontario, June 2009.

Goodwin, Jean.  "Opening Space for Argument: Obama at the Intersection Between Science and Politics."  Invited lecture at the Center for the Study of Rhetoric and Applied Communication Conference, Memphis, April 2009.

Herndl, Carl. "'Working Upstream': Bringing Scientists and Farmers Together to Develop Sustainable Biofuels Policy." Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, March 2009.

Graham, S. Scott. "Shifting Inquiry: From Science to Technoscience." Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, March 2009.

Goodwin, Jean. "Dilemmas of Expertise in Sustainable Agriculture." National Communication Association Convention. San Diego, November 2008.

Goodwin, Jean. "What Happens to Criticial Science Studies When It Moves into the Public Sphere?" Conference of the Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology. San Diego, November 2008.

Graham, S. Scott, and David Niedergeses."The Rhetoric of √-1: The Discourse of Imaginary Numbers and the Rhetoric of Mathematics." National Communications Association Convention. San Diego, November 2008.

Herndl, Carl. "Working Upstream: Integrating What Scientists and Farmers Know about Sustainable Biofuel Production." National Communications Association Convention. San Diego, November 2008.

Goodwin, Jean. "Small Rhetorical Citizenship for a Big World: The Persuasive Design of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change." Invited lecture at the Seminar "Begrebet 'retorisk medborgerskab" og dets rolle i retorikfaget på universitetsniveau" [Rhetorical Citizenship and its role in rhetorical education in a university setting]. University of Copenhagen, June 2008.

Graham, S. Scott, and Carl Herndl. "Negotiating Pain: Managing Pain and Managing the Different Discourses of Pain Management." Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Confernece. Seattle, May 2008.

Herndl, Carl. "Sustainability and the Biofuel Economy: Hybrid Landscapes, Geospatial Modeling, and the Space of Rhetorical Agency." Conference on College Composition and Communication Convention. New Orleans, April 2008.

Honeycutt, Lee. "Home Grown Realities: Mapping the Rhetorical Terrain of the Biofuels Economy." Conference on College Composition and Communication. New Orleans, April 2008.

Herndl, Carl. "Sustainability and the Biofuel Economy: Hybrid Landscapes, Geospatial Modeling, and the Space of Rhetorical Agency." Western State Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. Tempe, Arizona, October 2007.

Honeycutt, Lee. "Arguing Energy: The Debate over Ethanol's Net Energy Balance." Conference of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. New York, March 2007.

Niedergeses, David."Creating 'Clean Coal' as a Category of Energy." Conference of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. New York, March 2007.

Graham, S. Scott. "Agency and the Steam-Engine: 19th Century Human Boundary Objects and 21st Century Wiki-Clusters." Conference of the Canadian Association for Teachers of Technical Writing. Saskatoon, SK, May 2007.

Niedergeses, David. "Informational Websites and Socio-technical Decisions: Using websites to engage the public in scientific issues." Conference of the Canadian Association for Teachers of Technical Writing. Saskatoon, SK, May 2007.

Wilson, Greg, and Carl Herndl. "Speaking Plutonium: The Discovery/Construction of an Element." Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference. Memphis, TN, May 2006.

Graham, S. Scott. "The Rhetoric of Discovery: The Abductive Inference and the Kairos of Paradigm Shifts." Conference of the Canadian Association for Teachers of Technical Writing. Toronto, Ontario, April 2006.

Honeycutt, Lee. "Organizational Content Management: Matching Technologies to Textual Workflows." Conference of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. Chicago, March 2006.

Wilson, Greg, Andrew Koehler, and Benjamin Sims. "Representing Weapons." Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Pasadena, CA, October 2005.

Sims, Benjamin, Andrew Koehler, and Greg Wilson. "The Sociology of Parts: Complexity in Socio-Technical Systems." Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Pasadena, CA, October 2005.

Wilson, Greg. "The Intersection of the Humanities and Social Sciences with Big Science." Seminar Presentation at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Humanities Department. November 8, 2004.

Wilson, Greg, and Carl Herndl. "Fostering Collaboration in Socially Complex Problem Areas: A Rhetorical View." Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Paris, France, August 2004.

Wilson, Greg. "Studying the Incommensurability That Unites Us: Persuasion across Discourse Communities, Persuasion Via Boundary Objects." National Communication Association Conference. Miami, FL, November 2003.

Wilson, Greg. "Boundary Objects and Persuasion Across Discourse Communities." Presentation for the Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI), University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, November 6, 2003.

Wilson, Greg, and Sarah Michalak. "Quantifying the Apocalypse." Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Atlanta, October 2003.

Wilson, Greg. "Connecting Incommensurable Discourses: Choosing Between Paradigms in Statistical Science." Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Milwaukee, WI, November 2002.

Wilson, Greg. "1073 Physicists, 508 Chemists, 1565 Engineers, and One Rhetorician: Rhetorical Approaches to Multi-Disciplinary Problem Solving." Seminar Presentation at the Department of English, Iowa State University. Ames, IA, November 5, 2002.

Wilson, Greg. "Discourse Production and Paradigm Change." Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference. Washington, DC, May 2000.

Grants and Awards

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, "The rhetorical force of the appeal to expert authority."  2010.  Jean Goodwin.

$5,000 Center for Excellence in Arts and Humanities summer grant for Moral Equivalent of War: Presidential Language in American Energy Politics. Summer, 2010. Lee Honeycutt.

$1,200 Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, Research Travel Grant." Lee Honeycutt.

$1,225 Liberal Arts and Sciences College Mini-grant for research on "sustainability." 2008.  Carl Herndl.

$15,000 Center for Excellence in Arts and Humanities Imaging Iowa Public Scholarship grant for"Improving Communication and cooperation between Diverse Stakeholders: Mapping the Rhetorical Terrain of the Bioeconomy." 2008-2009.  Carl Herndl, Jean Goodwin, Lee Honeycutt and Greg Wilson.

$5,000 Center for Excellence in Arts and Humanities summer grant for "Dilemmas of Expertise in Sustainable Agriculture." Summer, 2008. Jean Goodwin.

$5,000 Center for Excellence in Arts and Humanities summer grant for"Rhetorical Citizenship and Agricultural Ecology." Summer 2006. Carl Herndl.