Isabelle Thompson, Professor, received her EdD from
Duke University. She specializes in technical and professional communication,
composition, and educational theory and practice and has publications
in Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Journal
of Technical Writing and Communication, and Technical Communication
Quarterly.
Currently she is conducting research about adult literacy in the classroom and in the workplace, both what experienced writers and readers know and what they need to know. She is Coordinator of the English Center.
Representative Publications
Co-author, "Feminist Theory in Technical Communication: Making
Knowledge Claims Visible." With Elizabeth O. Smith. Journal
of Business and Technical Communication, 16 (2002): 441-477.
Co-author, "Learning-to-Communicate and Communicating-to-Learn
in Veterinary Medicine: A Survey of Writing, Speaking, and Reading
in Veterinary Medical Curricula." With Charles Hendrix. Journal
of Technical Writing and Communication 30 (2000): 103-21.
"Interpreting Textual Data in Writing Research." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. 29 (1999): 163-75.
"Women and Feminism in Technical Communication." Journal of Business and Technical Communication 13 (1999): 154-78.
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