Areas of Interest
Literacy, Technology Studies, Process Research, Writing Theory
Selected Recent Publications
“Composing in Technological Contexts: A Study of Note-Making.” Written Communication 6 (1990): 512-47.
“Revising On-Line: Computer Technologies and the Revising Process.”With C. Hill and D. Wallace. Computers and Composition 9 (1991): 83-109.
“Planning in Writing: The Cognition of a Constructive Process.” With L. Flower, K. Schriver, and J. R. Hayes. In The Rhetoric of Doing: Essays in Honor of James L. Kinneavy. Ed. S. Witte, N. Nakadate, and R. D. Cherry. Carbondale IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1992. 181-243.
“Shared Information: Some Observations of Communication in Japanese Technical Settings. ”With J. Funk. In Reading Empirical Research Studies: The Rhetoric of Research. Ed. J. R. Hayes, R. E. Young, et al. Mahweh NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1992. 139-54.
“Beyond ‘Just the Facts’: Reading and Writing as Rhetorical Action.” In Hearing Ourselves Think: Cognitive Research in the College Writing Classroom. Ed. A. Penrose and B. Sitko. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. 19-32.
“Writing the Technology That Writes Us.” With C. Neuwirth. In Literacy and Computers. Ed. C. Selfe and S. Hilligoss. New York: Modern Language Association, 1994. 319-35.
“Learning To Read Biology: One Student’s Rhetorical Development in College.” Written Communication 11 (1994): 43-84.
Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy. Mahweh NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996.
Educated in the USA: Readings on the Problems and Promise of Education. Ed. with J. Nelson and S. Greene. Dubuque: Kendall Hunt, 1997.
"Materializing Public and Private: The Spatialization of Conceptual Categories in Discourses of Abortion.” In Material Rhetorics. Ed. J. Selzer and S. Crowley. Madison: U Wisconsin P, 1999. 218-38.
“On the Relationship of Old and New Technologies.” Computers and Composition 16 (1999): 209-28.
“Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning.” With L. Flower. In On Writing Research: CCCC Braddock Essays, 1975-1998. Ed. L. Ede. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1999. 242-59.
“‘People Do What They Know’: Some Accounts of Participation in Project UNLOC.” With K. Weiss. Works and Days 17/19 (1999-2000): 511-35.
“ITEXT” Future Directions for Research on the Relationship between Information Technology and Writing.” With C. Geisler, C. Bazerman, S. Doheny-Farina, L. Gurak, D. Kaufer, A. Lunsford, and C. Miller. Journal of Business and Technical Communication 15 (2001): 269-308.
“Writing as Embodied Practice: The Case of Engineering Standards.” With S. Witte. Journal of Business and Technical Communication 15 (2001): 413-57.