English Faculty 

Melinda Kreth, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/Melinda_Kreth/

Composition & Communication
Language & Literature

Anspach Hall 301E
(989) 774-2662
Kreth1ml@cmich.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Louisville, 1998
M.A., University of Arkansas at Little Rock 1993
B.A., Hendrix College, 1983

Teaching Expertise

Business Writing                                                              Composition & Rhetoric
Empirical Research Methods
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Women Writers

Research Interests

Business, Technical, and Scientific Communication
Ethical Issues in Professional Communication
Experiential Learning
Feminist Theory & Discourse
Rhetoric of Inquiry
Rhetoric of Science and Technology
Writing Across the Curriculum
Writing in the Disciplines

Select Publications

"From Wordsmith to Communication Strategist: Heresthetic and Political Maneuvering in Technical Communication." Co-authored with Patrick Moore, Assoc. Prof. or English and Univ. of Arkansas-Little Rock.  Technical Communication 52.3 (Aug. 2005): 302-322.  This article won the Distinguished Technical Communication Award in the 2005 Frank R. Smith Outstanding Journal Article competition sponsored by the Society for Technical Communication.

"'Help Wanted: Communication Strategists':  The Inclusion of Heresthetic in Professional Communication Training."  Proceedings of the International Conference on Professional Communication, Limerick, Ireland, July 10-13 2005. (July 2005).

"A Small-Scale Client Project for Business Writing Students:  Developing a Guide for First-Time Home Buyers.:  Business Communication Quarterly 68.1 (Mar. 2005): 52-59. 

 "Comments on and Addenda to Holdstein's WAC Paradoxes."  Pedagogy 1.2: (Spring 2001) 287-295

"Review of The Cluetrain Manifesto."  Business Communication Quarterly 63.4 (Dec. 2000): 66-72

"Exploring 'Responsibility' in Advertising:  Health Claims about Dietary Supplements."  Business Communication Quarterly 63.3 (Sept. 2000):  66 - 72.

"A Survey of the Co-op Writing Experiences of Recent Engineering  Graduates."  IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 43.2 (June 2000):  137 - 52.

"Comments on 'Instrumental Discourse is as Humanistic as Rhetoric'."  Journal of Business and Technical Communication 10.4 (1996):  476 - 82.

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