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• "Best practices: A Triangulated Support Approach in Transitioning Faculty to Online Teaching." With Donna Petherbridge and Sarah Egan Warren. The Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, Volume VIII, Number I, Spring 2005 (http://www.westga.edu/~distance/jmain11.html). http://www.westga.edu/%7Edistance/ojdla/spring81/covington81.htm.
• "Active and Interactive Learning Online: A Comparison of Web-Based and Conventional Writing Classes." With Brad Mehlenbacher, Carolyn R. Miller, and Jamie S. Larsen. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. June 2000, 43 (2): 166-84.
• "Aristotelian Rhetorical Appeals in the Poetry of Matthew Arnold." Victorian Poetry 24 (Summer 1986), 149-61.
• "Forms Design." Proceedings of the 1986 Practical Conference on Communication, 77-94.
• "An Alternative to Writing Across the Curriculum: The Writing Assistance Program at North Carolina State University's School of Engineering." WPA Journal 8 (Spring 1985), 15-23. [co-authored with Ann E. Brown and Gary B. Blank]
• "Visual Thinking and the Technical Editor." Proceedings of the 1984 Practical Conference on Communication, 45-60.
• Review: Style and Readability in Technical Writing: A Sentence-Combining Approach, by James DeGeorge, Gary A. Olson, and Richard Ray. Journal of Advanced Composition 5 (1984), 197-201.
• "The Writing Assistance Program at North Carolina State University's School of Engineering." Engineering Education 75 (November 1984), 91-94. [co-authored with Ann E. Brown and Gary B. Blank]
• "Making Team Projects Work in a Technical Communication Course." Technical Writing Teacher 11 (1984), 100-04. Printed in an earlier version as "Making Team Projects Work in a Technical Communication Course." Technical Communication: Perspectives for the Eighties. Proceedings of the Technical Communication Sessions at the 32nd Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, Dallas, TX, March 26-28, 1981. NASA Conference Publication 2203, 271-74.
• "The 'Business' of Communication Courses: A Simulation Exercise." In Technical and Business Communication in Two-Year Programs. Eds. Keats Sparrow and Nell Ann Pickett. Urbana, Ill.: NCTE, 1983, 91-95.
• "A Survey of Technical Communication Students: Some Implications for Engineering Educators." Engineering Education 73 (1982), 247-51. [co-authored with Clifford M. Krowne]
• "Writing on the Job and Writing in the Classroom: A Reassessment of the Way Consulting Work Affects the Teaching of Writing." Proceedings of the 1982 Practical Conference on Communication, 67-75.
• "New Concepts of Language: The Practical Implications for Technical Editors." Proceedings of the 1982 Practical Conference on Communication, 129-45.
• "Integrating Engineering and Technical Communication in Sophomore Electrical Engineering Design Projects." IEEE Transactions on Education E23 (November 1980), 210-12. Reprinted in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication PC24 (September 1981), 145-47. [co-authored with Clifford M. Krowne]
• "Subjectivity in Grading Reports: Guidelines for Engineering Professors." Proceedings of the 1980 Southeastern Section Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education, 112-15. [co-authored with Hugh F. Keedy]
• "A Technical Communication Course Using Peer Evaluation of Reports." Engineering Education 69 (February 1979), 417-19. [co-authored with Hugh F. Keedy]
• "Convergence of the Twain: The Advantages of Team-Teaching a Technical Communication Course with an Engineer." Proceedings of the 26th International Technical Communication Conference (May 1979), E25-E29. [co-authored with Hugh F. Keedy]
• "Teaching Technical Communication to Engineers: Classroom Responses to the Needs of Industry." Proceedings of the 1979 Southeastern Section Meeting of the American Society of Engineering Education, 125-28. [co-authored with Hugh F. Keedy]