Dorothy Winsor

Education
Experience
Awards
Professional Societies
Recent Professional Service
Publications

EDUCATION:

• Ph.D., English, Wayne State University, Detroit MI, 1979
  
• M.A., English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, 1970
  
• B.A., English, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids MI, 1969

  
  
  

1996 to present Iowa State University, English Department

• 2001 to present, Professor
• 1998 to 2001, Associate Professor
• 1996 to 1998, Visiting Associate Professor

• 1993 to 1995, Professor of Communication
  
• 1989 to 1993, Associate Professor of Communication
  
• 1986 to 1989, Assistant Professor of Communication

1981 - 1986 Detroit College of Business, English Department

AWARDS:

Association for Business Communication Award for Outstanding Publication 2004

• 1994, 1995, and 1999
  
  • Best Article Reporting Formal Research on Technical Writing

• 1991
  
  • Best Article on Philosophy or Theory of Technical Writing

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

• Association for Business Communication
• Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
  
• Society for Technical Communication
  
• National Council of Teachers of English
  
• Society for the Social Studies of Science
  
• Group for Research in Applied English Studies

2002-present

• Editor, Journal of Business and Technical Communication

1997-present

• Advisory Board, Program in Technical Communication, Pennsylvania College of Technology
  

• Member at Large, Executive Committee, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
  
• Referee for Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Written Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, Journal of Business Communication

Books

• Writing Power: Communication in an Engineering Center. SUNY Press, 2003.

• Writing Like an Engineer: A Rhetorical Education. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 1996. Book is part of series edited by Charles Bazerman: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Society.

Book Chapters

• "Writing Well as a Form of Social Knowledge," in Nonacademic Writing: Social Theory and Technology. Eds. Ann Hill Duin and Craig Hansen. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 1996.

• "Constructing Scientific Knowledge in Gould and Lewontin's 'The Spandrels of San Marco," in Understanding Scientific Prose. Ed. Jack Selzer. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. (Book won 1994 NCTE Award.)

Articles

• "IText: Future Directions for Research on the Relationship between Information Technology and Writing," Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 15.3 (2001), 269-308. (With Cheryl Geisler, Charles Bazerman, Stephen Doheny-Farina, Laura Gurak, Chris Haas, Johndan Johnson- Eilola, David Kaufer, Andrea Lunsford, Carolyn Miller, and JoAnne Yates)

• "Learning to Do Knowledge Work in Systems of Distributed Cognition," Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 15.1 (2001), 5-28.

• "Ordering Work: Blue-Collar Literacy and the Political Nature of Genre," Written Communication, 17.2 (2000), 155-84.

• "Genre and Activity Systems: The Role of Documentation in Maintaining and Changing Engineering Activity Systems," Written Communication,16.2, 1999, 200-24.

• "Rhetorical Practices in Technical Work," Journal of Business and Technical Communication,12.3(1998), 343-70.

• "Invention and Writing in Technical Work: Representing the Object," Written Communication, 11.2 (1994), 227-50.

• "Owning Corporate Texts," Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 7.2 (1993), 179-95.

• "What Counts as Writing? An Argument from Engineers' Practice," Journal of Advanced Composition, 12.2 (1992), 337-47.

• "How Companies Affect the Writing of Young Engineers: Two Case Studies," IEEE Transactions of Professional Communication 33.3 (1990), 124-29.

• "The Construction of Knowledge in Organizations: Asking the Right Questions about the Challenger," Journal of Business and Technical Communication 4.2 (1990), 7-20.

• "Joining the Engineering Community: How Do Novices Learn to Write Like Engineers?" Ed. Stephen Doheny-Farina. "Current Research in Technical Communication," Technical Communication 37.2 (1990), 172-72.

• "Engineer Writing/Writing Engineering," College Composition and Communication 41.1 (1990), 58-70. Rpt. in The Informed Technical Reader, by Gloria Kitto Lewis. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 1996.

• "An Engineer's Writing and the Corporate Construction of Knowledge," Written Communication 8 (1989), 270-85.

• "Communication Failures Contributing to the Challenger Accident: An Example for Technical Communicators," IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 31 (1988), 101-07. Rpt.in Chemtech 19 (1989), 528-34. Rpt. in Arenas of the Mind, Lillian Back and Merla Wolk, eds., NY: Harper, 1993. (Article nominated for Donald G. Fink Prize.)

• "Iris Murdoch's Conflicting Ethical Demands: Separation versus Passivity in The Sacred and Profane Love Machine," Modern Language Quarterly, 44 (1983), 394-409. Rpt. in , Lindsey Tucker, ed. NY: Hall, 1992.

• "Solipsistic Sexuality in Iris Murdoch's Gothic Novels," Renascence, 34 (1981), 52-63. Rpt. in Iris Murdoch , Harold Bloom, ed. NY: Chelsea House, 1986.

• "Iris Murdoch and the Uncanny: Supernatural Events in The Bell, Literature and Psychology, 30 (1980), 147-54.

• Electronic Literacy in the Workplace: Technologies of Writing, Patricia Sullivan and Jennie Dautermann, eds. Urbana: NCTE, 1996. In IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, forthcoming.

• Academic Literacy and the Nature of Expertise: Reading, Writing, and Knowing in Academic Philosophy by Cheryl Geisler. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1994. In Technical Communication Quarterly, Winter 1995, 95-96.

• Rhetoric, Innovation, Technology by Stephen Doheny-Farina. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992. In Technical Communication Quarterly, Spring 1993, 221-22.

• Talking Power: The Politics of Language by Robin Lakoff. NY: Basic, 1990. In The Executive, February 1991, 99-101.

Over two dozen presentations given at such sites as the Conference on College Composition and Communication, The Penn State University Conference on Rhetoric, The Association for Business Communication, and The Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.