Elizabeth (Betsy) Overman Smith, Associate Professor,
received her PhD from Texas Tech University. She specializes in technical
communication with interests in the history of the discipline and
profession, document design, and bibliographic and citation research.
Currently she is researching the architecture of information for handheld
devices such as PDAs and pocket PCs.
Her teaching interests include the use of computers in the writing classroom and building computer classroom environments for English department classes. She teaches courses in the Master of Technical and Professional Communication program.
She is Associate Head of the Department of English; editor of The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing annual bibliography; and manager of Sigma Tau Chi and Alpha Sigma, the Society for Technical Communication's honor societies.
Representative Publications
"Feminist Theory in Technical Communication: Making
Knowledge Claims Visible." Journal of Business and
Technical Communication, 16 (2002): 441-477. With Isabelle
Thompson.
"Points of Reference in Technical Communication Scholarship." Technical Communication Quarterly, 9 (2000): 423-49.
"Strength in the Technical Communication Journals and Diversity in the Serials Cited." Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 14 (2000): 131-84. Received the 2000 NCTE Award for Best Article Reporting Historical Research or Textual Studies in Technical and Scientific Communication.
How to Write for the World of Work, 6th ed., Harcourt, 2000, with Thomas Pearsall and Donald Cunningham.
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