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"Beyond Joseph Williams: Rethinking Cohesion for Today's Composition Class." Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, March 2009.
"Assessing Student Web Sites." Re-Envisioning Writing Assessment: Diversity, Relevance, and Achievement. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 2008.
"The Service Program in Context." Council on Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Minneapolis, October 2008.
"Boundary Spanners: A Review of What We Have Learned." Center for Innovation Management Studies Fall Corporate Sponsor's Meeting, Raleigh, NC, October 2008.
"Crying the News of Technology Opportunity: Influence Processes of Boundary Spanners." INFORMS, Seattle, November 2007. (with Lynda Aiman-Smith)
"Multi-modal program Review and Assessment." Council on Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Greenville, NC, October 2007.
“Rethinking Our Role in Responding to and Evaluating Students’ Composition.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York City, March 2007.
“Connecting Upstream Science to market Needs: Structured Workshops at Nanoscience Centers.” Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, New York City, March 2007.
“Graduate Student Projects and the New Economy.” Council on Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, San Francisco, October 2006.
“Online Writing Modules: Implementation and Evaluation.” NCSU Learning Technology Services Summer Institute. Raleigh, NC. May 2006.
“Online Writing Modules: Implementation and Evaluation.” NCSU IDIG (Instructional Design Interest Group), Raleigh, NC. April 2006.
“Assessing the Online Component of a Hybrid Course.” NCSU Campus Writing and Speaking Program. Raleigh, NC. April 2006.
“Assessing Online Writing Modules.” NC State Undergraduate Assessment Symposium, Raleigh, April 2006.
“Defining Visual Rhetoric.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March 2006.
“Writing in a Visual Age,” UNC-Charlotte Department of English. Charlotte, NC. February 2006.
“Teaching Writing in a Hybrid Course.” UNC-Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference. Raleigh, March 2006.
“Online Modules for Business Communication.” Association for Business Communication, Irvine, California, October 2005.
“Assessment in Pedagogy and Scholarship: Am I Teaching?” NCSU Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning Workshop, Raleigh, NC. October 2005.
“Assessing the Online Component of a Hybrid Course.” Pathways to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Raleigh, September 2005.
“Creating Online Modules for Teaching Writing.” NCSU Learning Technology Services Summer Institute. Raleigh, NC. May 2005.
"Teaching Ethics and the Discourse of Professionalism." Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, March 2005.
"Turn Your Research into a Teaching Tool." Association for Business Communication, Boston, October 2004.
"Verbal and Visual Voice." Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York City, March 2003. (I was unable to attend the conference due to a serious illness, but Professor Lee Odell of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute presented my paper for me.)
"Choosing Ethical Partners for the Service Learning Course." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March 2002.
"Training and Re-Training to Meet the Challenges of Tomorrow." Association for Business Communication, San Diego. November 2001.
“Creating an Internship Course,” UNC Chapel Hill Internship Council. Chapel Hill, NC. May 2001. Invited workshop. With Dr. Judi Gaitens.
"Modeling Integrity and Responsibility in Choosing Service-Learning Partners." Third National Conference on Moral Education in a Diverse Society, Durham, North Carolina, April 2001.
"Ensuring the Benefits (and Avoiding the Pitfalls) of Service Learning in the Business Communication Classroom." Association for Business Communication, Atlanta. October 2000.
"'Business' Writing in the Public Sector." Association for Business Communication, Los Angeles. November 1999.
"The Writing Review Session: An Opportunity for Gaining Power and Facilitating Change." Association for Business Communication, San Antonio. November 1998.
"The Role of Media Richness Theory for Online Composition." The Future of Narrative Discourse: Internet Constructs of Literacy and Identity (symposium), Pittsburgh. October 1998. (Invited participant).
"Writing as an Opportunity for Organizational Socialization." National Communication Association, Chicago. November 1997.
"The Role of Writing in Organizational Socialization: How Newcomers Benefit from the Assignment of Writing Tasks." A. F. Jacobson Symposium in Organizational Socialization, Omaha. May 1997.
"Rhetorical Expertise as a Source of Power in the Workplace: A Case Study of an 'Expert' Writer," Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee. March 1996.
"Joining the Community: The Effect of Newcomers on the Discourse Conventions of an Organization," MLA Convention, Chicago. December 1995.
"Learning Discourse Conventions: The Socialization of Technical Writers," 42nd Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication, Washington, DC. April 1995.
"The Effect of an Expert Writer on the Discourse Conventions of a Government Bureaucracy," Temple University's 16th Annual Conference on Discourse Analysis, Philadelphia. April 1995.
"How Newcomers Influence Organizational Discourse Conventions," Industrial Affiliates Review, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. April 1995.
"Learning Discourse Conventions: How Professionals Learn to Meet the Communication Requirements of Their Employing Organizations," 1st Annual Rensselaer Graduate Student Conference on Communication, Troy. February 1995.
"Socialization Theory and Technical Writing," Industrial Affiliates Review, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. April 1994.
"Socialization Processes of Technical Writers: How Students Become Professionals," Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Diego. April 1993.
"Ethnography as a Composition Research Genre: The Practice of Ethnography," National Council of Teachers of English, Louisville. November 1992.
"The Effect of Experience and Hierarchical Position on the Writer's Perception of the Writing Process," International Professional Communication Conference, Santa Fe. October 1992.
"Technical Communication: How Should It Be Taught?," Association of Earth Science Editors 25th Annual Meeting, Troy. October 1991.
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