A downloadable printed .pdf version of the conference program is also available.

 

  • Monday 17 Jul 2023
  • Tuesday 18 Jul 2023
  • Wednesday 19 Jul 2023
  • Thursday 20 Jul 2023

Monday 17 Jul 2023

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Welcome Party

Registration

Johnson Museum, 6/F, Cornell University

Mon 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Welcome Party

Johnson Museum, 6/F, Cornell University

Mon 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Tuesday 18 Jul 2023

8:00 am – 3:30 pm Registration – Day 2

Registration

Upson 116

Tue 8:00 am – 3:30 pm

8:30 am – 9:30 am User Experience & Language Session

User Experience

Zhijun Gao, Tianshu Wang, Meina Wang and Yunhong Zhang; Meng Yu; Joseph JeyarajUpson 206

Paper Titles: UX Testing of Developer Documentation — A Case Study of O Database Documentation // What can we learn from the super mobile apps? // UX Writing and Design: Dissolving Boundaries
Tue 8:30 am – 9:30 am

Zooming in on Language

Tzipora Rakedzon and Orit Rabkin; Jordan Smith; Rick EvansUpson 216

Paper Titles: From 0 to 100 since covid, how a major reform in the humanities department in a STEM university sparked writing culture and pedagogies // Analyzing levels of prescriptivism in American English usage guides // Why is it so hard to teach my graduate students to write?
Tue 8:30 am – 9:30 am

9:30 am – 9:45 am Coffee break

Venue: Upson 116

9:45 am – 11:00 am PANELS / WORKSHOP

Panel – Emerging Tech Comm Skill Sets: UX, Content Strategy, and Instructional Design

Guiseppe Getto, Bremen Vance, Suzan Flanagan, Kylie Jacobsen and Christina MayrUpson 222

Tue 9:45 am – 11:00 am

Panel – The Enduring Value(s) of Cultural Research Methods in TPC

Calvin Pollak, Dorcas Anabire, Margaret Hsiao, Wesley Mathis and R. Elle SmithUpson 216

Tue 9:45 am – 11:00 am

Workshop – Teaming up for Stronger Communication: An Integrated Approach to Teamwork and Communication Instruction

Lydia Wilkinson and Patricia SheridanUpson 206

Tue 9:45 am – 11:00 am

11:00 am – 11:15 am Coffee break 2

Venue: Upson 116

11:15 am – 12:00 pm Joenk Award Winner Session

(Re)Designing Technical Documentation about COVID-19 with and for Indigenous Communities

Laura Gonzales, Robin Lewy, Erika Hernandez Cuevas, and Vianna Lucia Gonzalez AjiatazOlin Hall 165

(Re)Designing Technical Documentation about COVID-19 with and for Indigenous Communities in Gainesville, Florida, Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico, and Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Tue 11:15 am – 12:00 pm

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch Buffet

Venue: Duffield Atrium (attached to Upson Hall)

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Keynote with Breakouts

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Craig McMahan, Mercer University

Olin Hall 165

“Stepping into the Mekong: A Study in Motivation”
Tue 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm Coffee break 3

Venue: Upson 116

2:45 pm – 3:45 pm DEI & Engineering Education Sessions

DEI Session – Inclusive Learning and Teaching

Allison Godwin, Linda DeAngelo, Erica McGreevy, Eric McChesney, Kevin Binning, Charlie Díaz, Gerard Dorvé-Lewis, Ketura Elie, Kevin Kaufman-Ortiz and Jacqueline Rohde ; Morgan Banville, Kat Gray, Emily Gresbrink, Rachael Jordan, Elena Kalodner-Martin and Heather Listharke; Laura Patterson and Darina SlatteryUpson 206

Paper Titles: Communicating for Belonging in First-Year Engineering // Imagining a Social Justice Technical Communication “Dream” Course // Moving Towards More Inclusive Conferences and Events: Reflections on Establishing an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Chair
Tue 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm

Engineering Education Session – Mapping Engineering Writing Education 

Marie Paretti, Catherine Berdanier and Magnus Gustafsson ; Kelly Scarff; Belinda Oechsler, Yvonne Cleary and Sissi ClossUpson 216

Paper Titles: Mapping Approaches to Teaching Writing in Engineering // Engineering Technical Communication Programs – A Change in Writing Instruction // Curriculum Development for the First Technical Communication Study Program in Kenya: The Challenges of Digitalization
Tue 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm Coffee break 4

Venue: Upson 116

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm AI and Education Sessions

AI Panel – Co-AI Technical Writing: Documentation, Experimentation, User Testing, Ethical Design

Ann Hill Duin, Isabel Pedersen, Jim Hall, Dan Card and Lee-Ann Kastman BreuchUpson 222

Tue 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Engineering Education Session – Approaches to Graduate Education

Christine Burgoyne and Kim GrandstaffUpson 206

Paper Titles: Developing a Community of Scholarly Practice for Graduate Students Through An Integrated Communications Program in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Virginia Tech
Tue 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

TPC Education Session – Intercultural & Online Education 

Jiaxin Zhang, Jianfen Chen and Chenxing Xie ;Saul CarlinerUpson 216

Paper Titles: A Systematic Review on the Latest Trends in Intercultural Technical and Professional Communication // Two Online Writing Courses in One—The Redesign of Educational Communication
Tue 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Mixer & Awards

Coltivare

235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca, NY 14850

Shuttle available from Best Western Hotel (conf hotel) to Coltivare for event start. Participants should anticipate their own ride back to their hotels afterwards. Coltivare parking is available at adjacent garage at 235 S. Cayuga St.
Tue 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Wednesday 19 Jul 2023

8:00 am – 3:30 pm Registration – Day 3

Registration

Upson 116

Wed 8:00 am – 3:30 pm

8:30 am – 9:30 am DEI Session & The State of Texas

DEI Session – Writing for Employment

Rachel Tofteland-TrampeUpson 206

Paper Title: Professional Writing for Employment
Wed 8:30 am – 9:30 am

The State of Texas

Tristin Hooker, Clay Spinuzzi, Vanessa Lopez, Maclain Scott, Andrew Booth, Drake Gossi and Nigel O’Hearn; Drake Gossi, Andrew Booth, Maclain Scott, Vanessa Lopez, Nigel O’Hearn, Tristin Hooker and Clay Spinuzzi; Drake GossiUpson 216

Paper Titles: Origin stories: How Stories of Founding in Small Texas Communities Reflect Current Relations // Material Rhetorical Infrastructure as Limits and as Limiter in Rural Texas Communities // “I'd like to still see that family unit being the center of it”: The Institutional Logic of the Family in a Small-town Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Wed 8:30 am – 9:30 am

9:30 am – 9:45 am Coffee break – Day 2

Venue: Upson 116

9:45 am – 11:00 am WORKSHOPS / PANELS

Panel – Specialized Writing Courses: Changing National Trends

Lora Anderson, Teresa Cook and Laura WilsonUpson 206

Wed 9:45 am – 11:00 am

Workshop – Attending to the Affective Domain and Disciplinary Identity while Teaching Academic Technical Writing 

Catherine BerdanierUpson 222

Wed 9:45 am – 11:00 am

Workshop – Using AI-Generated Content to Support the Writing Process 

Bremen Vance, Pam Brewer and Ann Hill DuinUpson 216

Wed 9:45 am – 11:00 am

11:00 am – 11:15 am Coffee Break 2- Day 2

Venue: Upson 116

11:15 am – 12:00 pm Roundtables

Artificial Intelligence and Content Strategy

Bremen Vance, Allison HutchisonUpson 216

Wed 11:15 am – 12:00 pm

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Kira Dreher and Laura PattersonUpson 222

Wed 11:15 am – 12:00 pm

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch Boxed

Venue: Duffield Atrium (attached to Upson Hall)

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Plenary

“Tools to Think With — An Approach to Designing for the Future”

Dr. Suguru Ishizaki, Carnegie Mellon UniversityOlin Hall 165

Wed 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

2:00 pm – 2:15 pm Coffee Break 3 – Day 2

Venue: Upson 116

2:15 pm – 3:15 pm Engineering Education, TPC Education Sessions, AI and Posthumanism in TPC

AI and Posthumanism in TPC

Brandon Strubberg, Kristin Bennett and Carroll Ferguson Nardone ; Kira Dreher and Jeffrey SquiresUpson 222

Paper Titles: How to Navigate Shifting Tides: Mapping Technical Writing Students’ Use of Artificial Intelligence // Posthumanism and Technical Communication: Using an Assemblage Assignment in an Interdisciplinary Course
Wed 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm

Engineering Education Session – Innovative Approaches

Hua Wang; Lydia Wilkinson; Eva Brumberger and Allison EllsworthUpson 206

Paper Titles: A Critical and Ethical Approach to Teaching Genre Change Awareness // Skule Night: Developing Transdisciplinary Skills through an Extracurricular Community of Practice // Changing Course: Collaborative (Re)Design of an Engineering Communication Curriculum
Wed 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm

TPC Education Session – Focus on Assignments

Mika Stepankiw; Lisa Johnson and Debi Galley; Maren JohnsonUpson 216

Paper Titles: Expanding Proposal Writing Pedagogy: A Content Analysis of Course Syllabi // Teaching the Recommendation Report in the Technical Communication Classroom: Aligning Genre with Professional Expectations // New Technologies and Changing Pedagogy: Incorporating GoReact in the Technical Communication Classroom to Improve Student Oral Presentations
Wed 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm

3:15 pm – 3:30 pm Coffee Break 4 – Day 2

Venue: Upson 116

3:30 pm – 4:45 pm WORKSHOPS / PANEL

 Workshop – LXD—Where UXD Meets ID

Saul CarlinerUpson 222

LXD—Where UXD Meets ID
Wed 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm

Panel – Structuring Genre Performance for Future Data Scientists via an Interactionist Design Model

Allison Hutchison, Michael Laudenbach, Danielle Xu and Zhiyu GuoUpson 206

Structuring Genre Performance for Future Data Scientists
Wed 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm

Workshop – Radical Communication: Making (and Teaching) Zines in (and for) Technical Communication

Derek Ross and Kayleigh PearsUpson 216

Wed 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Waterfall Walk

Guided by Traci Nathans-Kelly

from conference venue to Ithaca’s downtown Commons.  Dinner on your own.  Waterfall walkers will be brought to Ithaca’s culinary center at the end, where you can find plenty of places to eat.

Wed 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Thursday 20 Jul 2023

8:00 am – 10:00 am Registration – Day 4

Registration

Upson 102

Thu 8:00 am – 10:00 am

8:30 am – 9:30 am Environment & Politics + TPC & Workplace Connections

Environment & Politics (Lufkin Winner Session)

John Fowler and Mark Zachry (Lufkin Winner); Jessie Golding and Suguru Ishizaki ; Barbara George

Paper Titles: Discovering and Designing for the Data Visualization Needs of Child Welfare System Professionals Influencing Public Policy // Building Robust Long-Term Conservation Monitoring with Design Thinking // Articulating Environmental & Human Health: Rust Belt Communication
Thu 8:30 am – 9:30 am

TPC & Workplace Connections (Hayhoe Winner)

Rachael Jordan (Hayhoe Winner), Mason Pellegrini, Aidan O’Neill and Yvonne Cleary

Paper Titles: Shifting Dynamics in Online Sex Work: A Pilot Analysis of ‘Sexual Content’ in Terms of Service (Hayhoe Award Winner) // The Role of The Pitch: Gatekeeping and Pitch Development in a High Technology Business Accelerator // Measuring Transfer of Training Using Five-Component Objectives
Thu 8:30 am – 9:30 am

9:30 am – 9:45 am Coffee break – Day 3

Venue: Upson 102

9:45 am – 11:00 am TPC & Complex Problems + Political & Public Communication

Political & Public Communication

Ryan Cheek and Samuel Allen; Daniel LiddleUpson 216

Paper Titles: Professionalizing Campaign Text Spam: How Technical Marketing Rhetoric Influences Rapid Change to the Professional Communication of Politics // The Goofy Roots of the Plain Language Movement: Reconsidering the Rhetorical Hedonism of ‘Gobbledygook Has Gotta Go’
Thu 9:45 am – 11:00 am

TPC & Complex Problems

Alan Chong; JD Applen; Karen GulbrandsenUpson 206

Paper Titles: What can engineering students learn from how the COVID-19 pandemic played out in the media? // Considering Race and Mortality from COVID as a Wicked Problem Using Praxiography as Pedagogy // Ethos: A Framework to Assess Character and Stance
Thu 9:45 am – 11:00 am

11:00 am – 12:00 pm Town Hall

Town Hall – Facilitated by Alan Chong, ProComm President & ProComm BoG

Olin Hall 165

Thu 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch – Day 3

Venue: Duffield Atrium (attached to Upson Hall)

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm (Optional) Wine Tasting in Ithaca: Finger Lakes Style

From 1:30-3:30pm on July 20, please join us for an event lead by Annemarie Morse, who is an amazing wine connoisseur, international wine judge, and educator who specializes in Finger Lakes regional wines and international wines, too. It promises to be a delightful and informative wine tasting!

Tickets are now available, but seats for the wine tasting are limited to 20 spots. Please, if you brought a traveling partner with you and they would like to join (and they are over 21 years old), feel free to buy them a ticket, too.

Purchase tickets via our EventBrite portal at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/winetasting-in-ithaca-finger-lakes-style-tickets-673938416947