E-Learning
to Work Settings: Transferring Online Communication Skills to the Workplace,
Keynote Presentation and Workshop at Wildacres Retreat, sponsored by
The
Tools on Our Desktops, Presentation and Workshop at Wildacres Retreat,
sponsored by
Pharmaceutical Consulting, Presentation to NMSU Faculty, Fall 1999.
Teaching Writing
with Computers,
Writing Across the Curriculum,
Making
Assignments,
Teaching Composition with Computers and Why We Should Be Interested in
Technical Communication.
Northeast Louisiana State University for development of grants for computers and writing development program, grant successfully funded (6/97), October 1996. Two-day workshop for teachers, October 1998.
Implementing
Strategic Review Practice, Drug Information Association,
Improving Document Review Practices in Pharmaceutical Companies: Problems and Solutions, Regional Conference of the Association of Business Communication, April 2002.
New
Opportunities in Global Technical Communication, Congress of the
"Designing Purchase Specifications." El Paso National Purchasing
Managers Meeting,
"Different Cultures, Values, Priorities, and Constraints: What Would It
Take to Bridge the Gap Between Academia and Industry?" ATTW Annual
Convention,
"CPTSC Retrospective: Recognizing our 25th Year." Banquet Address,
25th Annual Meeting of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific
Communication,
Leveraging
Existing Resources in Computers and Composition Keynote Address,
Composition Conference,
"Roundtable on Distance Education Programs in Professional Communication." Conference on College Composition and Communication, April, 1998. Chaired panel discussion.
"Designing Effective Statistical Displays." Annual Global Meeting
of Boehringer-Ingelheim bio-statisticians,
Technical Communication
"Issues Facing Technical Communication," Banquet Address, Council
for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication,"
"Using Global Technologies for Collaborative Document
Development." Conference on Computers and Writing,
Striking
the Balance: Organizing Tensions in Professional Communication Programs
"Global Team Rooms for Document Development." College Composition
and Communication,
"Our Core Business: What We Do Well." Keynote talk for the annual
meeting of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication,
"Collaborative Processes of Document Development." International
Association of Pharmaceutical Project Managers,
"Technology and Document Development in the Pharmaceutical
Industry." Drug Information Association,
"Computers and Professional Communication." Keynote talk for
Day-long workshop for the Conference on College Composition and Communication,
"Composing Hypertext." Workshop for Day-long workshop for the
Conference on College Composition and Communication,
"Workplace Writing and the English Curriculum: Defining the Future
Together." Keynote Speech, Day-long Workshop of the National Council of
Teachers of English,
"The National Survey of Adult Literacy: Implications and Applications
for Literacy Providers."
"From Writer to Designer: Modeling Composing Processes in a Hypertext Environment."
With Bev Kolosseus and Dan Bauer. 10th Annual Computers and Writing Conference,
"Developing Appropriate Computer Skills in our Technical Communication
Students."
"Creating a Culture of Literacy in Healthcare Settings." Southwest
Regional Literacy
"National Workplace Literacy Regional Programs." Southwest
Regional Literacy
"A Background to Workplace Literacy."
"Roundtable: Cooperative Endeavors between Business, Industry, and
Professional Writing Programs." Conference on College Composition and
Communication.
"Literacy in the Workplace: Challenges and Opportunities."
International Reading Association,
"NMSU Programs in Technical Communication."
"Working through Conflict: Tensions in Funded Research" Council
for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication.
"Literacy in the Hospital Context." Conference on College
Composition and Communication.
"Workplace Literacy and Program Development." Council for Programs
in Scientific and Technical Communication."
"Workplace Literacy in the Hospital Context."
"The Shape of Text to Come: The Texture of Print on Screens."
Writing the Future: The Sixth Annual Computers and Writing Conference,
"Looking Back to Look Forward: Trends in Written Documentation."
37th International Technical Communication Conference,
"Publication Design in a Graduate Professional Writing Program."
Modern Language Association,
"Establishing and Using a Publications Design Studio." Rocky
Mountain Modern Language Association,
"Teaching Business Writing with HyperCard," National
Conference on College Composition and Communication,
"The NMSU Programs in Professional Communication," Society for
Technical Communication,
"Exploring Hypertext through HyperCard," Special
Interest Group on Documentation, Association for Computing Machinery,
"A Program Evaluation of Computers and Composition at SIU-C,"
National Conference on College Composition and Communication,
"Serendipities of Assessment: How Students View What Teachers Do,"
NCTE National Convention,
"The Computer in Your English Class: Effective Applications,"
leader of full day workshop, NCTE National Convention,
"Writing across the Curriculum Projects from the Illinois Humanities Council's Summer Institutes for Secondary Schools Teachers," Composition Conference, Edwardsville, IL, April 1986
"Computers and Language Change," CCCC Winter Workshop Leader (all
day),
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"Software, Software, Who's Got the Software?"
"Computers and the Teaching of Technical Writing," Roundtable on
Technical Communication,
"Problems of Testing Writing Ability," Ramon A. Veal Research
Seminar, Conference on English Education,
"Writing Across the University Curriculum," Conference on Composition, SIU-Edwardsville, March 1985
"Collaboration in Professional Writing," National Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 1985
"Using the Computer to Teach Writing," Heads of Illinois Secondary
English Departments Conference,
"A Beginner's Guide to Word Processing and the Writing Process," Keynote speaker, Parkway District Curriculum Day, Parkway Central High School, Chesterfield, MO, Sept. 1983
"Developing Composition Programs," Teachers' Institute, Gallatin,
Hardin, Pope, and Saline counties,
"Grade Expectations: Making Evaluation Fit the Assignment,"
"Word Processing and the Writing Process," Keynote speaker,
Greater St. Louis English Teachers' Association,
"Testing Writing at State Universities in
"Computers Are Changing Us: Our Language, Our Literature, Our
Learning," Keynote speaker, Northeastern District, IATE,
"Science Writing," Conference on Composition, SIU-Edwardsville, April 1983
"Prerequisites to a Classroom-Relevant Model of Language,"
National Conference on College Composition and Communication,
"Computers and Composition,"
"Interpersonal Dimensions of Meaning in Text," Center for
Expansion of Learning and Thought--
"Text Graphics and Cohesion," International Systemic Linguistics
Workshop,
"Discourse Analysis and Classroom Teaching,"
"The Writer, the Reader, and the Scientific Text," Conference on
College Composition and Communication,
"Strategies for the Visual Organization of Text,"
"Rhetorical Constraints on Cohesion Structures in Scientific
Texts," Conference on College Composition and Communication,
"Distinctive Features of Cohesion," Teachers of English to
Speakers of Other Languages, National Conference,
"Dialect and Style-Shifting in the Fiction of Samuel Selvon,
Trinidadian Novelist," Society for
"Diagnosing Student Writing Skills,"