Faculty Profile

Jordan 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
Degree Specialization: Corpus Linguistics, Register Variation, English Grammar and Usage
Dissertation Title: A Comparison of Prescriptive Usage Problems in Formal and Informal Written English
MA, Weber State University, 2013. 
Major: Professional Communication
Dissertation Title: 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*


          
TECM 2980.001, Experimental Course, Spring 2024 Syllabus
TECM 4190.303, Technical Editing, Spring 2024 Syllabus


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    TECM 4500.001, Content Analysis in Technical Communication, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    TECM 3550.001, Content Strategy in Technical Communication, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    TECM 3550.001, Content Strategy in Technical Communication, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    TECM 4190.001, Technical Editing, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    TECM 4500.001, Content Analysis in Technical Communication, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    TECM 3550.001, Content Strategy in Technical Communication, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    TECM 4900.001, Special Problems, Spring 2022 
                    

                    TECM 4250.002, Writing Technical Procedures and Manuals, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    TECM 4500.001, Content Analysis in Technical Communication, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    TECM 3550.001, Content Strategy in Technical Communication, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    TECM 5195.801, Editing Technical Documents, Summer 8W2 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    TECM 3550.001, Content Strategy in Technical Communication, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    TECM 4190.005, Technical Editing, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    TECM 3550.001, Content Strategy in Technical Communication, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    TECM 4190.004, Technical Editing, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    TECM 3550.001, Content Strategy in Technical Communication, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    TECM 4190.005, Technical Editing, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    TECM 4190.001, Technical Editing, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    TECM 4190.002, Technical Editing, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT

          


          
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  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 Publications



  

  
Published Intellectual Contributions


  
Abstracts and Proceedings
Smith, J. (2023). Extended Abstract: Analyzing prescriptivism in usage guides: Implications for tech comm. Other. 149–151. IEEE. 
Smith, J. (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
Smith, J. (2022). Review of the book Research genres across languages: Multilingual communication online, by Carmen Pérez-Llantada. Other. 67, . 
Smith, J. (2020). Review of the book Register variation online, by Doug Biber and Jesse Egbert. Other. 2(1), 166–171. John Benjamins. 
Smith, J. (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
Smith, J. (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., Smith, J. (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. 
Smith, J., 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 (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):
				
      
					
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			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):
				
      
					
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