R. John Brockmann (B. A. Georgetown, M.A. University of Chicago, D.A. University of Michigan) is a member of the faculty in the Concentration in Business and Technical Communication and is the coordinator for the post-graduate certificate program in this area. He is the author of Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports (Baywood 2002) , From Millwrights to Shipwrights: Historical Considerations of American Technical Writing (Hampton Press 1998), Writing Better Computer Documentation for Users: From Paper to Hypertext: 2.0 (Wiley, 1990), co-editor of Ethics and Technical Communication (Society for Technical Communication, 1989), co-author of The Writer's Pocket Almanack (Santa Clara, California, Info Books, 1988-paper and hypertext software versions), author of Writing Better Computer Documentation for Users: From Paper to Online (Wiley-Interscience, 1986), lead editor of The Case Method in Technical Communication: Theory and Models (Association of Teachers of Technical Writing 1985), and co-editor of New Essays in Scientific and Technical Communication (Baywood Publications 1983)--winner of the Best Collection of Essays from the National Council Teachers of English. He has published some 50 articles in all the major technical communication journals over the last two decades and recently in nautical history journals. He was given prestigious awards for lifetime contributions by both the Society for Technical Communication and the Association of Computing Machinery. He has given short courses on computer documentation on four continents and at dozens of universities across the US and Canada . Professor Brockmann also teaches Biblical and Classical Literature as part of the interdepartmental Religious Studies minor as well as in the Jewish Studies Program, and he was ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1996. |
