Journal of Business and Technical Communication - Volume: 31, Number: 1 (January 2017)

Articles

The Technical Communicator as (Post-Postmodern) Discourse Worker
Greg Wilson, Rachel WolfordAuthor Biographies
Greg Wilson is an assistant professor in technical communication and rhetoric at Texas Tech University. He teaches courses in technical communication, rhetorical theory and criticism, and the rhetoric of science. He researches agency, technology, and culture.

Rachel Wolford is an assistant professor in technical communication and rhetoric at Texas Tech University. She teaches courses in technical communication, rhetorical theory and criticism, and digital rhetoric. Her research centers on advocacy of women in rural environments and posthuman and ethnographic material rhetorics.

Assessing Attitudes Toward Content and Design in Alibaba’s Dry Goods Business Infographics
Yuejiao ZhangAuthor Biography
Yuejiao Zhang is an assistant professor of technical and professional communication at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her research interests include professional communication through visuals, the history of technical communication, and creativity in technical communication. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in technical writing, information design, and visual rhetoric.

Theorizing the Value of English Proficiency in Cross-Cultural Rhetorics of Health and Medicine
Amy Koerber, Hilary GrahamAuthor Biographies
Amy Koerber is a professor in Communication Studies, College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University. Her book Breast or Bottle: Contemporary Controversies in Infant-Feeding Policy and Practice received the 2015 CCCC award for Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication.

Hilary Graham is a doctoral student in Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University. Her research interests include professional scientific and medical communication, with a specific emphasis on the rhetorical practices of scientists who are nonnative speakers of English.

Rhetorical Move Structure in High-Tech Marketing White Papers
Kim Sydow Campbell, Jefrey S. NaidooAuthor Biographies
Kim Sydow Campbell completed the research reported here while on the faculty of the Culverhouse College of Commerce at the University of Alabama. She is now a professor and chair of technical communication at the University of North Texas. She served as editor of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication for 10 years.

Jefrey S. Naidoo is an assistant professor of management communication in the Culverhouse College of Commerce at the University of Alabama, where he coordinates the communication course that serves 2,000 business undergraduates per year. He is a former management consultant and project manager.

Book Reviews

Book Review: Rhetoric of a Global Epidemic: Transcultural Communication About SARS
Kathryn Yankura Swacha, Daniel Liddle, Christa TestonBook Review Editor
Book Review: Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy
Brigitte Mussack, Christa TestonBook Review Editor