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JEFF GRABILL
Associate Professor; Co-Director, Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
517/353-9164 (office); 517/353-9162 (fax)
courses: WRA 110 Writing: Science and Technology; WRA 320: Technical Writing; WRA 420: Advanced Technical Writing
Grabill received his PhD in English from Purdue University with an emphasis in rhetoric and composition and secondary areas in professional and technical writing and literary theory. He has taught composition, technical writing, and digital rhetoric courses at Georgia State University as well as at Michigan State University; at both institutions, Grabill has helped develop and administer professional writing programs. His research is located at the intersection of professional and technical writing, rhetorical theory, and literacy theory, and focuses on the literate and technological practices of citizens, users, students, and others within communities and non-academic institutions.
Grabill has written a book on community literacy programs (Community Literacy Programs and the Politics of Change>, State University of New York Press 2001). He has won awards for articles published in College Composition and Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, and Computers and Composition. Recently, his work was included in a special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly that won the NCTE Award for Best Collection of Essays in Technical and Scientific Communication.
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