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Jordan J. Smith

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Technical Communication

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, Iowa State University, 2019
    Major: English: Rhetoric and Professional Communication and Applied Linguistics and Technology
    Specialization: Corpus Linguistics, Register Variation, English Grammar and Usage
    Dissertation: A Comparison of Prescriptive Usage Problems in Formal and Informal Written English
  • MA, Weber State University, 2013
    Major: Professional Communication
    Dissertation: Syntactic structures in advertising English: A stylistic analysis comparing print ads from 1885, 1950, and 2000
  • BA, Brigham Young University, 2008
    Major: English Language

Current Scheduled Teaching

No current or future courses scheduled.

Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

TECM 2980.001Experimental CourseSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
TECM 4190.303Technical EditingSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
TECM 4500.001Content Analysis in Technical CommunicationFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
TECM 3550.001Content Strategy in Technical CommunicationFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
TECM 3550.001Content Strategy in Technical CommunicationSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
TECM 4190.001Technical EditingSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
TECM 4500.001Content Analysis in Technical CommunicationFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
TECM 3550.001Content Strategy in Technical CommunicationFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
TECM 4900.001Special ProblemsSpring 2022
TECM 4250.002Writing Technical Procedures and ManualsSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
TECM 4500.001Content Analysis in Technical CommunicationFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
TECM 3550.001Content Strategy in Technical CommunicationFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
TECM 5195.801Editing Technical DocumentsSummer 8W2 2021 Syllabus SPOT
TECM 3550.001Content Strategy in Technical CommunicationSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
TECM 4190.005Technical EditingSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
TECM 3550.001Content Strategy in Technical CommunicationFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
TECM 4190.004Technical EditingFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
TECM 3550.001Content Strategy in Technical CommunicationSpring 2020 Syllabus
TECM 4190.005Technical EditingSpring 2020 Syllabus
TECM 4190.001Technical EditingFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
TECM 4190.002Technical EditingFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Abstracts and Proceedings

  • SmithJ. (2023). Extended Abstract: Analyzing prescriptivism in usage guides: Implications for tech comm. Other. 149–151. IEEE.
  • SmithJ. (2020). Extended Abstract: Using empirical data to inform technical-editing pedagogies. Other. 192–193. IEEE.

    • Book Chapter

  • Gray, B., Cotos, E., Smith, J. (2020). Combining rhetorical move analysis with multidimensional analysis: Research writing across disciplines. Advances in corpus-based research on academic writing. Effects of discipline, register, and writer expertise. 137–168. John Benjamins.

    • Book Review

  • SmithJ. (2022). Review of the book Research genres across languages: Multilingual communication online, by Carmen Pérez-Llantada. Other. 67
  • SmithJ. (2020). Review of the book Register variation online, by Doug Biber and Jesse Egbert. Other. 2 (1) 166–171. John Benjamins.
  • SmithJ. (2020). Review of the book Corpus stylistics, by Dan McIntyre and Brian Walker. Other. 15 (2) 243–246. Edinburgh University Press.
  • Smith, J. (2019). Review of the book Regional variation in written American English, by Jack Grieve. Other. 14 (1) 131–134. Edinburgh University Press.

    • Critical Review

  • He, L., Smith, J. (2019). Review of the software ImmerseMe, produced by ImmerseMe Ltd.. Other. 461–466. Ames, IA, Iowa State University.

    • Journal Article

  • SmithJ. (2023). Corpus linguistics and technical editing: How corpora can help copy editors adopt a rhetorical view of prescriptive usage rules. Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 37 (2) Sage.
  • Campbell, K.S., Naidoo, J.S., SmithJ. (2023). When your boss says, “you need to sound more professional”: Writing style and writer attributions. International Journal of Business Communication. Sage.
  • Smith, J. (2020). A content analysis of figure captions in academic journals from four disciplines. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. 63 (4) 341–360. IEEE.
  • SmithJ., Mackiewicz, J., Hanson, D., Fanning, S.N., Doan, S. (2016). The communicative work of biology-journal captions: Lessons for technical and professional communication. Technical Communication Quarterly. 25 (4) 260–277.
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Overall
Summative Rating		 Challenge and
Engagement Index		 Response Rate

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  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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