Publications:
“Linking Classroom and Institute Assessment of Engineering Students' Writing: The Case of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology," forthcoming in Developing Better Writers and Thinkers Through Assessment, Spectrum Press.
"How Dumb Do You Want Me to Write It?': Engineering Students, Technical Communication, and Civic Responsibility,” under consideration by Journal of Business and Technical Communication
“Teaching Enron: The Rhetoric and Ethics of Whistleblowing,” co-author with Richard House and Anneliese Watt, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication: Special Issue on Case Studies for Teaching Technical and Professional Communication 47.4 (December 2004): 244-55.
"Introduction to the Special Issue on New Case Studies for Technical and Professional Communication," IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication: Special Issue on Case Studies for Teaching Technical and Professional Communication, 47.4 (December 2004): 229-32.
"Technological Paternalism," Last Word column, ASEE Prism December 6, 2004: 72.
“The Engineering Portfolio: Communication, Reflection, and Student Learning Outcomes Assessment,” International Journal of Engineering Education 18.2: 199-207.
“Portfolios: Proceed with Caution,” The Higher Learning Commission Conference 2002
“Technical Communication, Engineering, and ABET’s Engineering Criteria 2000: What Lies Ahead?” Technical Communication 49.1 (February 2002): 89-95.
“Writing to Design/Designing to Write: Using the Correlation between Communication and Engineering to Improve Student Reflection,” co-author with Jeff Froyd and Anne Watt, Proceedings of the ASEE 2002 Conference
“Incorporating Writing Assignments in Technical Courses,” co-author with Caroline Carvill, Susan Smith, and Anne Watt, Proceedings of the ASEE 2002 Conference
“”Instilling a Sense of Civic Responsibility in Engineering Students through Technical Communication,” Proceedings of the ASEE 2002 Conference
“Building a Better Portfolio,” co-authored with Gloria M. Rogers, ASEE Prism, January 1999: 30-2.
Book Review of Women’s Fiction of the Second World War: Gender, Power and Resistance by Gill Plain and Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World War by Karen Schneider, CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, Fall 1998: 441-48.
“Technical Writing by Design,” SWE: Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers, July/August 1997: 28-9.
"Representing a 'Great Distress': Melodrama, Fiction, and the Irish Famine," co-authored with Stephen Watt, in Melodrama: The Cultural Emergence of a Genre, edited by Michael Hays and Anastasia Nikolopoulou, St. Martin's Press, 1996: 245-65.
"'Fiction with the Texture of History': Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September," Modern Fiction Studies 41.2 (Summer 1995): 219-42.
"This Is (Not) A Canon: Staking out the Tradition in Recent Anthologies of Irish Writing," Review Essay, The Journal of Women's History, 6.4/7.1 (Winter/Spring): 227-35.
"Love Beyond the Pale: Lady Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl, Maria Edgeworth's The Absentee, and the Boundaries of Colonial Power," Papers in Irish Studies 4 (1991-2): 1-8.