1998 PhD, Rhetoric, Composition and the Teaching of English. The University of Arizona. 1994 MA, English with a concentration in Rhetoric, Composition and the Teaching of English. The University of Arizona. 1993 BA, Secondary Education/English. Minor: Journalism. The University of Arizona, summa cum laude. 2006 Post-doctoral Education. Centre for Health Communication Research. Faculty Summer School. Cardiff University. Cardiff, Wales.

Teaching and Research Interests: Professional Writing (Medical), Health Communication, Medical Literature, Technical Writing, Service Learning, Composition, Writing Across Curriculum, Writing in the Disciplines, Rhetoric of Science, Deconstruction, History of Medicine.

Books Project Technical Writing. Co-authored with Stuart Brown. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. In preparation and under contract. Rhetoric of Healthcare: Essays Toward a New Disciplinary Inquiry. With Stuart Brown. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P. 2008. First anthology in Medical Rhetoric. Writing in the Health Professions. (Invited). New York: Allyn-Bacon/Longman. 2005. A Student's Guide to First-Year Composition. 18th ed. Eds. Lori Church, Barbara Heifferon, and Sarah Prineas. Edina, MN: Burgess, 1998. Lead Editor. A Student's Guide to First-Year Composition. 17th ed. Eds. Guanjun Cai, Barbara Heifferon, and Maureen Salzer. Edina, MN: Burgess, 1997. This text was required for all classes of first-year composition and used by 4-5000 students per semester at U of A. Melville, Marjorie and Thomas. Whose Heaven, Whose Earth? New York: A.A. Knopf, 1969. With Will Inman. Manuals Instructor’s Manual for Writing in the Health Professions. New York: Allyn-Bacon/Longman. 2005. Palmetto Health Parish Nurse Instructor’s Manual. Co-author with Margaret Stephens, R.N. Co-wrote, edited and designed manual. Columbia, SC: Palmetto Health, 2004. Refereed Articles and Chapters “Seeing Cells: Teaching the Verbal/Visual Rhetoric of Biology.” With John Dinolfo and Lesly Tesmesvari. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. 37:4. Special Edition. Kathryn Nortcutt, Ed. 2007: 395-417. “Immigration Reform: [Re]forming Theories of Cyber-Design. Culture, Communication and Cyberspace: Rethinking Technical Communication for International Online Environments. Kirk St.Amant and Filipp Sapienti. Forthcoming 2008. “Pandemics and/or Pandemonium.” Rhetoric of Healthcare: Essays Toward a New Disciplinary Inquiry. Barbara Heifferon and Stuart Brown, Eds. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P. 2008. “The New Smallpox: An Epidemic of Words?” Rhetoric Review. 25:1. 2006: 76-93. “Managing CHF in the Elderly using ACEIs.” With L. Naylor, L. Howe, and J. Eggert. Nurse Practitioner. July 2004. “Notes Toward a ‘Reflective Instrumentalism’: A Collaborative Look at Clemson University’s MAPC Program.” With Kathleen Yancey et al. Teaching Technical Communication in the 21st Century. Tracey Bridgeford and Richard Selfe, Eds. Logan, UT: USUP, 2004. “Other Voices.” Service Learning in Technical and Professional Communication. Melody Bowdon and Blake Scott, Eds. Allyn-Bacon/Longman. 2003. "CAI: Disabling the Disability Label." Teaching Writing in the Late Age of Print. Ed. Jeffrey Galin. Hampton Press (2002). "Becoming Visible: Lessons in Disability." With Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Johnson Cheu, Patricia Dunn, and Linda F. White. CCC. Feb. 2001. “Multivocal Midwife: The Writing Teacher as Rhetor.” With Valentina Abordanado, Duane Roen, and Phyllis Mentzell Ryder. Alternative Rhetorics. Ed. Laura Gray-Rosendale. SUNY UP, 2001. "Confronting Body Image Issues in the Classroom." Feminist Working Papers. Columbia, SC: USC P, 2000. "Deconstruction." With Phyllis Mentzell Ryder. Theorizing Composition: A Critical Sourcebook for Theory and Scholarship in Contemporary Composition Studies. Ed. Mary Kennedy. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. "Crossing Boundaries and Borders in Computer Ethics." Science and Engineering Ethics 2.2 (1996): 233-4. Guest Editorships Editor. Technical Communication Quarterly. Special Issue on Medical Rhetoric. With Stuart Brown. Summer 2000. Other Articles “CCCC Members’ Memories of Chairs’Addresses.” Views from the Center. Ed. Duane Roen. Urbana: NCTE, 2006. “Deconstructing Disabilities to Construct Abilities.” Available online and on CD-ROM as part of ERIC. 1999. "Egyptian Medical Writing." To Speak With Other Tongues: Language Practices in Antiquity. Ed. Thomas Willard. Tucson: Imp P, 1994. "Opportunities for Change, The Non-Traditional Student." Arizona English Bulletin 35.1 (1992): 3-8. “Welcome to English 103 at Clemson.” The Informed Argument. 6th Ed. Eds. Robert K. Miller and Robert P. Yagelski. Belmont, CA.: Thomson-Wadsworth. 2004, 1-59. Editorships Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospital and Health Care Facilities. With David Allison, Facilities Guidelines Institute, and AIA Academy of Architecture for Health. Edited and restructured, redesigned nationally used facilities manual. Washington, D.C.: AIA, 2005. Book Reviews Book Review. On Judy Segal’s “Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine.” Journal of Advanced Composition. Forthcoming. 2006 Book Review. On Susan Well’s “Out of the Dead House: 19th Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine.” Composition Forum. 2004. Book Review. On Cheryl Mattingly’s “Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience.” Literature and Medicine. 18 (Fall 1999): 253-256. Proceedings “Reflective Instrumentalism as a Possible Guide for Revising a Master’s Degree Reading List.” With Sean Williams and Kathleen Yancey. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Council of Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication. Spring 2001. "Using Rhetorical Theory in Medical Ethics Cases II." Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering. Vol.28.3, 4. (2000): 551-557. “Using Rhetorical Theory in Medical Ethics Cases I.” Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering. Vol.26.5, 6. (1999). Creative Publications "Trailhead." [Story]. Persona. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1979. "Symbolism in Faulkner's `Spotted Horses.'" Phoebe. U of Virginia P, 1973. Poetry in: Birth and Family Network, Encore, Kauri, Minotaur, New Kauri, N.Y. Quarterly, Persona, POET, Prickly Pear, The Sandcutters, Wayside Poetry Forum, The Wayside Quarterly. Anthologies: Poems from the Capitol, Arizona Anthem. 1969-94.