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EDUCATION
1987: Ph.D., Linguistics, Louisiana State University.
1985: Language in the USA Fellow, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Georgetown University.
1981: Ph.D., English, University of Maryland, College Park.
1976: M.A., English, Georgia State University.
1972: B.A., English, with honors, University of Maryland, College Park.

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ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1989-pres: Professor (1993-present) and Associate Professor (1989-1993), Composition Department and Linguistics Program, University of Minnesota Duluth.
1986-1989: Assistant Professor, English Department and Linguistics Program, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
1981-1985: Instructor (1981-84) and Graduate Teaching Assistant (1984-85), English Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
1976-1981: Graduate Teaching Assistant, English Department, University of Maryland, College Park.

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1. Textbooks

Linguistics for Non-Linguists: A Primer with Exercises. (Second author, with Frank Parker.) 4th edition in preparation for 2005 copyright date. 3rd edition: Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2000. 2nd edition: Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1994. Reviewed in Studies in Second Language Acquisition and Linguist List.

English Grammar: Prescriptive, Descriptive, Generative, Performance. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1998. (First author, with Frank Parker.)

Revising Professional Writing: In Science and Technology, Business, and the Social Sciences. (First author, with Kim Sydow Campbell, Alan Manning, and Frank Parker.) Superior, WI: Parlay, 1999. Previous edition: Revising Technical and Business Writing: Principles and Applications. Superior, WI: Parlay, 1992. (First author, with Frank Parker, Alan Manning, and Kim Campbell.) Reviewed in Journal of Business and Technical Communication.

Writing for Academic Publication. Superior, WI: Parlay, 1995. (Second author, with Frank Parker.) Reviewed in College Composition and Communication, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, ADS Teaching Newsletter, ACSS Newsletter, and CBE Views.

Exercises in Linguistics. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990; Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1991. (Second author, with Frank Parker.)

2. Articles and chapters in books

"Linguistics and the Creative Class." Forthcoming, Proceedings of the 2003 Deseret Language and Linguistics Society Symposium.

"About Face: Positive Politeness in Dummies Manuals and Conventional Users' Manuals." In IPCC 2003: The Shape of Knowledge (Proceedings of 2003 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference) (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2003), 336-347.

"Readability of Model Consent Forms Provided by IRBs." In IPCC 2003: The Shape of Knowledge (Proceedings of 2003 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference) (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2003), 145-157. (First author, with Jo Mackiewicz.)

"Globalizing Plain English: Can Plain be Polite?" In The World within the Words: Proceedings of the Spring 2003 Conference of the Association for Business Communication, ed. Clive Muir, 13-22. (First author, with Jo Mackiewicz.)

"Human Subjects Research by Business Communication Students: Beyond the Red Tape." Business Communication Quarterly, 66 (2003), 9-22. (Third author, with Jill Jenson and Jo Mackiewicz.)

"Resolving the Directness Dilemma in Editing Sessions with Nonnative Speakers." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.46 (2003), 1-16. (First author, with Jo Mackiewicz.)

"The Technical Editor as Diplomat: Linguistic Strategies for Balancing Clarity and Politeness." Technical Communication 50 (2003), 83-94. (Second author, with Jo Mackiewicz.) Winner of an award for Distinguished Technical Communication in the Society for Technical Communication's 2003 Frank R. Smith Outstanding Journal Article competition.

"Balancing Clarity and Politeness in Editing Sessions with Nonnative Speakers." In IPCC: Reflections on Communication (Proceedings of 2002 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference) (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2002), 410-422. (Second author, with Jo Mackiewicz.)

"Seven Habits of Highly Effective Writers." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 42 (1999), 47-51.

"Parallels Between Visual and Textual Processing." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 41 (1998), 175-185. (First author, with Frank Parker.)

"*Here Us Go Again." American Speech 69 (1994), 435-439. (Second author, with Frank Parker and Charles Meyer.)

"Studying Phonological Variation Through Photography." Ideas for Teaching About Language Variation: American English and Related Topics, eds. Wayne Glowka and Donald Lance. Modern Language Association (1993), 322-328. (First author, with Frank Parker.)

"Telling More than the Truth: Implicature, Speech Acts, and Ethics in Professional Communication." Journal of Business Ethics 12 (1993), 179-196.

"Passive Voice and Rhetorical Role in Scientific Writing." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 21 (1991), 239-257.

"You-Perspective: Insights from Speech Act Theory." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 20 (1990), 189-199. (Second author, with Kim Campbell and Frank Parker.)

"Untriggered Reflexive Pronouns in English." American Speech 65 (1990), 50-69. (Second author, with Frank Parker and Charles Meyer.)

"More Anomalous Prepositions." American Speech 64 (1989), 190-191. (Second author, with Frank Parker.)

"Tone as a Function of Presupposition in Technical and Business Writing." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 18 (1988), 325-343. (First author, with Frank Parker.) Reprinted in Dallin D. Oaks, Linguistics at Work: A Reader of Applications (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1998), pp. 453-472.

"Case Assignment and the Ordering of Constituents in Coordinate Structures." American Speech 63 (1988), 214-233. (Second author, with Frank Parker and Charles Meyer.)

"Conversational Implicature and Unstated Meaning in Professional Communication." The Technical Writing Teacher [Technical Communication Quarterly] 15 (1988), 94-104.

"Confinement and Escape in John Cheever's Bullet Park." University of Mississippi Studies in English, new series, 6 (1988), 265-270.

"Speech Act Theory and Degrees of Directness in Professional Writing." The Technical Writing Teacher [Technical Communication Quarterly] 15 (1988), 1-29.

"The Metalanguage of Transformational Syntax: Relations Between Jargon and Theory." Semiotica 67 (1987), 173-194.

"The Effects of Conflicting Cues on the Perception of Misarticulations." Journal of Phonetics 13 (1986), 481-487. (First author, with Paul Hoffman and Sandra Damico.)

"Pragmatics and Technical Communication: Some Further Considerations." The Technical Writing Teacher [Technical Communication Quarterly] 13 (1986), 160-170.

"Recreational Running in The World According to Garp and Dubin's Lives." In The Many Faces of Play, ed. Kendall Blanchard (Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Press, 1986), 141-149.

"Anomalous Prepositions in Relative Clauses." American Speech 61 (1986), 291-306. (First author, with Frank Parker.)

"Some Problems in the Clinical Application of Phonological Theory." Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders 50 (1985), 294-297. (Second author, with Dan Foster and Frank Parker.)

"The Workshop Method: Potential Problems, Tested Solutions." The English Record 35 (1984), 14-16.

"Metaphors for the Mind in Linguistics: Some Historical Perspectives." In Papers on Computational and Cognitive Science, ed. Edwin Battistella (Bloomington: IULC, 1984), 113-127.

"The Suburban Vision in John O'Hara's Short Stories." Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction (1984), 101-113.

"Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of Certain Double-Object Constructions." Southwest Journal of Linguistics 7 (1984), 47-56.

"John Cheever and the Limitations of Fantasy." CEA Critic 45 (1983), 21-26.

3. Reviews

Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Designing Effective Web Sites: A Concise Guide. For IEEE Transactions on Professional Communciation, 45 (2002), 206-208.

Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Language and Communication: Essential Concepts for User Interface and Documentation Design. For IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 45 (2002), 54-56.

Michael B. Goodman, Working in a Global Environment. For International Journal of Commerce and Management 11 (2001), 144-147. (Invited.)

Hadumod Bussman, Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. For Journal of English Linguistics 29 (2001), 282-284.

Lillian H. Chaney and Jeanette S. Martin, Intercultural Business Communication, 2nd ed. For IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 44 (2001), 62-64.

Roger Shuy, Bureaucratic Language in Government and Business. For IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 43 (2000), 233-235.

Julie Tetel Andresen, Linguistics in America 1769-1924: A Critical History. For Journal of English Linguistics 27 (1999), 61-63.

Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik, A Communicative Grammar of English, 2nd ed. For Journal of English Linguistics 25 (1997), 166-168.

Herbert H. Clark, Arenas of Language Use. For Language 71 (1995), 844.

Steven Cushing, Fatal Words: Communication Clashes and Airline Crashes. For Language 71 (1995), 404-405.

Peter Kahrel, Working with Foreign Languages and Characters in WordPerfect. For Language 70 (1994), 182-183.

Jeffrey Kaplan, English Grammar: Principles and Facts. For Language 67 (1991), 867-68.

John Swales, Episodes in ESP [English for Specific Purposes]: A Source and Reference Book on the Development of English for Science and Technology. For Scientometrics 10 (1986), 221-222. (Invited.)

Thomas Sawyer, ed., Technical and Professional Communication. For Teaching English in the Two-Year College 6 (1980), 271-273.

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TEACHING MATERIALS

Ancillary materials for The Little, Brown Handbook, 9th ed. (Updating Web resources and writing new exercises for developmental writers.) (Commissioned; in production.)

Common Errors Workbook (web ancillary for The Penguin Handbook and The Penguin Brief Handbook). New York: Longman, 2003. (Commissioned.)

Instructor's Manual for The Allyn & Bacon Handbook, 5/e (Rosen & Berens). New York: Longman, 2003. (Commissioned; third author, with Leonard J. Rosen and Kathleen Shine Cain.)

Exercise Book and Answer Key for Decisions Brief Handbook, 2/e (Rosen). New York: Longman, 2002. (Commissioned.)

Longman Exercise Zone (2500-item interactive test bank on CD-ROM). New York: Longman, 2002. (Commissioned.)

Exercise Book and Answer Key for The New Century Handbook (Hult and Huckin). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2001. (Commissioned.)

Study Guides prepared for distance learning versions of the following courses for University of Minnesota and UMD:

Composition 3120-Advanced Writing: Business (139 pages).
Composition 3170-Organizational Writing (131 pages).
English 5811-Introduction to Modern English (81 pages).
Linguistics 1811-Introduction to Language (63 pages).
Linguistics 5831-Sociolinguistics (82 pages).

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CONFERENCE PAPERS

“The Rhetoric of Web Accessibility,” Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, San Antonio, March 2004. (First author, with John Spartz.)

“About Face: Positive Politeness in Dummies Manuals and Conventional Users’ Manuals,” IPCC, Orlando, September 2003.

“Readability of Model Consent Forms Provided by IRBs,” IPCC, Orlando, September 2003. (First author, with Jo Mackiewicz.)

"Globalizing Plain English: Can Plain Be Polite?" Association for Business Communication Conference, April 2003. (First author, with Jo Mackiewicz.)

Keynote address, "Linguistics and the Creative Class," Deseret Language and Linguistics Society Symposium, Brigham Young University, March 2003.

"Extending Human Subject Research Guidelines Beyond the Classroom," Association for Business Communication Conference, October 2002. (One of three papers for a panel on "Human Subject Research by Business Writing Students: From Red Tape to Learning Opportunity," organized with Jill Jenson and Jo Mackiewicz.)

"Balancing Clarity and Politeness in Editing Sessions with Nonnative Speakers," IEEE Professional Communication Society Conference, September 2002, Portland, Oregon. (Second author, with Jo Mackiewicz.)

Chair, "International Perspectives on Present-Day English Language," Modern Language Association, Discussion Group on Present-Day English Language, December 1993, Toronto.

"Recent Trends in Teaching about Language Variation," American Dialect Society, December 1993, Toronto. (First author, with Frank Parker.)

"Ethics, Politics, and Indirectness." Modern Language Association and Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, December 1992, New York. (First author, with Frank Parker.)

Chair, "Applying Language Variation Research to Other Fields." South Atlantic Modern Language Association and American Dialect Society, November 1989, Atlanta.

"Language Theory: Application versus Practice." Modern Language Association, Language Theory Division, December 1987, San Francisco.

"The Pragmatics of Serial Constructions in Cheever's Prose." Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, March 1987, Georgetown University. (First author, with Frank Parker.)

"Presupposition and Tone in Technical Writing." Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, March 1987, Georgetown University. (First author, with Frank Parker.)

"A Gricean Analysis of Negative Messages in Professional Writing." Tennessee Conference on Linguistics, February 1987, Knoxville. (First author, with Frank Parker.)

"Pronoun Case in Coordinate Constructions: Syntactic and Pragmatic Explanations." Linguistic Society of America and American Dialect Society, December 1986, New York. (Second author, with Frank Parker.)

"Pragmatic Dissonance in Greeting Card Humor." Modern Language Association, Language and Society Division, December 1986, New York.

"The Case of the Added Prepositions." Linguistic Society of America, July 1985, Georgetown University. (First author, with Frank Parker.)

"Phonological Processes: Signs of the Times." Modern Language Association and American Dialect Society, December 1984, Washington, D.C. (First author, with Frank Parker and Nick Macari.)

"Metaphors for the Mind in Linguistics." Conference on Linguistics in the Humanities and Sciences, April 1984, University of Alabama, Birmingham.

"Linguistic Jargon: Its Relation to Specialists' and Non-Specialists' Perceptions about the Structure of Language." Modern Language Association and American Dialect Society, December 1983, New York.

"Semantic and Pragmatic Factors in the Grammaticality of Double-Object Verbs." Linguistics Association of the Southwest, October 1983, Baton Rouge.

"Men's Columns in Women's Magazines." Popular Culture Association, April 1983, Wichita.

"The Loneliness of the Short-Distance Runner: Running as a Motif in Recent American Fiction." The Association for the Anthropological Study of Play, February 1983, Baton Rouge.

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