Erin Anne Clark

Associate Professor

East Carolina University

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My research areas are defined by the intersection of feminisms and technical communication. Feminist Technical Communication explores just that intersection and many of the sites of confluence—healthcare, risk, environmental rhetorics—for these two disciplines. This book builds upon my 2013 dissertation “Theorizing an Apparent Feminism in Technical Communication,” which won the Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication. My work has appeared in Computers and Composition, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, Programmatic Perspectives, and Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition. (My older publications can be found under the surname Frost.) The same theoretical commitments that inform my research also guide my teaching; I hope my students describe me as fair, collaborative, curious, and open-minded.

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East Carolina University
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    This is a re-post from MIT Technology Review. I think it would be a great piece to assign in a digital writing course. The full article is here: http://www.technologyreview.com/review/429654/how-authors-write/ And here’s an excerpt: At a time when new media are proliferating, it is tempting to imagine that authors, thinking about…

  • Speaking of efficiency …

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