Congratulations to Dr. Nergis Danış on her successful defense of her doctoral dissertation "Distinctive Grammatical and Lexical Features of Quantitative Research Article Part-Genres." linkedin.com/posts/isuaplin…
Din Keserovic, a senior majoring in technical communication and political science, played a key role in the return of the English Department's alumni magazine. engl.iastate.edu/2025/05/08/the…
Congratulations to Dr. Chris Nuttall for his successful dissertation defense "Perhaps It’s a Matter of Discipline: An Analysis of Linguistic Variation in NSF Project Summaries." Multi-dimensional & cluster analysis investigated linguistic variation in NSF Project Summaries.
Danielle Black chose to study technical communication because she saw the wide range of career paths that the field could lead her down. engl.iastate.edu/2025/05/08/tec…
Discovering the Teaching–Learning Connection in the Workplace. Good teaching sometimes requires a teacher to step into their students’ shoes, as English professor Jo Mackiewicz has been experiencing for the past few years. engl.iastate.edu/2025/05/08/dis…
Who Cares About Board Games? - Department of English. Matt Sivils’s contribution to The Conversation explains that board games have proved themselves to have a multitude of uses over the years. engl.iastate.edu/2025/05/08/who…
Congratulations to Rachel Holmes for successfully defending her thesis "Collaborative Persona Bots: Generative AI-Powered Experiences for Content Creation." It showed how AI can serve as a powerful partner in professional communication and augment professional writing workflows.
“Teaching isn’t static,” Jacob Dawson, associate teaching professor in the Department of English, said. “The teaching labs were designed to treat it like a living process. We’re not just absorbing information, we’re testing ideas, reflecting on our methods, and building something