Wine and Poetry Night

Enjoy Wine and Poetry Night on Friday, December 7 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the Plot Twist Bookstore. Members of English who will be featured are… Read More

Phorum Speaker Series: Dr. Jason Swarts

Dr. Jason Swarts is a Professor of English in Technical Communication at NC State.  His research focuses include mobile communication technologies, computer-supported cooperative work, and… Read More

12th Edition Business and Administrative Communication Released

Professor Jo Mackiewicz, Senior Lecturer Jenny Aune, and Professor Emeritus Donna Kienzler co-authored the 12th Edition of Business and Administrative Communication, which was released on… Read More

Open House: Business and Administrative Communication 12th Edition

Please join us in celebrating the release of the 12th Edition Business and Administrative Communication, co-authored by Jo Mackiewicz, Jenny Aune, and Donna Kienzler. Read More

Charlie Kostelnick Receives 2018 Kitty O. Locker Outstanding Researcher Award

Congratulations to Professor Charlie Kostelnick for winning the Kitty O. Locker Outstanding Researcher Award at the Association for Business Communication (ABC)… Read More

Lori Peterson, Managing Editor for JBTC, Receives 2018 Honorary Distinguished Service Award

Lori Peterson, managing editor for the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, recently won the 2018 Honorary Distinguished Service Award from the Council for… Read More

Recipients of the Graduate College Research Excellence Award (REA) and Teaching Excellence Awards (TEA), Fall 2018

Congratulations to the following graduate students for their awards in research and teaching: Research Excellence Award: Raeann Ritland, Rhetoric & Professional Communication, Major Professor Tina… Read More

Professor Karla Ruden’s Learning Community Features Design Analysis Assignment

In Karla Ruden’s English 150 Common Threads Learning Community, there is stressed analysis of design features of buildings and artwork on campus in Assignment #4. The students are then encouraged to think of… Read More

Zara Chowdhary wins prized Parent-Writer Fellowship

Zara Chowdhary won the prized Parent-Writer Fellowship at the 2018 Writing Conference at Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.  The Parent-Writer Fellowships are… Read More

Ph.D. RPC Students, Tina Coffelt Present at ABC Conference

Ph.D. students in the Rhetoric and Professional Communication program (L-R) Bremen Vance, Mariah Kemp, Amanda Arp, Samantha Cosgrove, George Standifer, and Associate Professor Tina Coffelt… Read More

David Niedergeses

David Niedergeses completed his dissertation research, “Constructing collaborative ecologies: How selection, practice, and mediation assemble and shape social and collaborative software” before moving into a… Read More

Elizabeth Wardle

Elizabeth Wardle is Howe Professor and Director of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence at Miami of Ohio.  Her research on transfer at Iowa State… Read More

Clay Spinuzzi

Clay Spinuzzi is Professor of Rhetoric and Writing and the University of Texas at Austin, and teaches in the School of Information.  He studies workplaces… Read More

Scott Graham

Scott Graham, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, directs the Public Engagement and Science Communication Laboratory.  Scott’s recent book, The Politics of Pain Medicine:… Read More

Amy Harris-Tehan

As Researcher Development Coordinator, Amy does training and development for ISU’s Office of the Vice President for Research.  Previously, Amy did training for Ames Laboratory… Read More

Sharon Wiederanders

Sharon Wiederanders is an Information Architect at Garmin International, where she is the TechComm Coordinator for the fitness segment, serving as subject matter expert and… Read More

Literary Reading and Q&A about the Art of Fiction, Margot Livesey

Margot Livesey is the award-winning author of ten books, including a collection of stories, Learning by Heart, and eight acclaimed novels: Homework, Criminals, The Missing… Read More

Afternoon Craft Talk/Q&A: “The Hidden Machinery: The Art of Fiction” with Margot Livesey

Margot Livesey is the award-winning author of ten books, including a collection of stories, Learning by Heart, and eight acclaimed novels: Homework, Criminals, The… Read More

Talking Black in America, Documentary & Discussion with Producer Walt Wolfram

The film “Talking Black in America” will be shown at 8:00 pm Thursday, November 15 in the Memorial Union Great Hall. The film describes the… Read More

Janna Dorman

Janna Dorman is a senior web-based training developer at Allina Health, a large healthcare organization located in Minneapolis, MN.  She creates interactive eLearning content utilizing… Read More