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Thomas L. Warren
Professor
Interim Director, Technical Writing Program
PhD, The University of Kansas
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Document and information design
- Project management of technical publications
- Production editing
- Theories of communication and information transfer
- Cross-cultural communication
Recent Upper Division & Graduate Courses Taught
- Teaching Business and Technical Writing
- Project Management
- Document Design
- Theories of Communication
- Styles and Editing
- Writing for Professional Publication
- Intermediate Technical Report Writing
Selected Publications
Cross-Cultural Communication: Perspectives in Theory and Practice. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, 2005.
“Increasing User Acceptance of Technical Information in Cross-Cultural Communication,” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 34, no.4 (2004): 249-264.
“Cultural Influences on Technical Manuals,” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 32 (2), (2002): 111-123.
“Communicating Style Rules to Editors of International Standards: An Analysis of ISO TC 184/SC4 Style Documents,” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 31 (2) (2001): 159-173.
Honors & Offices:
- Society for Technical Communication:
Fellow and Associate Fellow, Society for Technical Communication
Jay R. Gould Award (STC) for teaching excellence, 1997 - Association of Teachers of Technical Writing:
Fellow, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing - Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication:
Distinguished Service Award, Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, 1999 - Institute for Scientific and Technical Communicators (England):
Major Horace Hockley Award, from Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (England), 1996 (NOTE: First person outside England to win this award) - International Organization for Standards (ISO):
Member of the following committees (within ISO Technical Committee 184, Subcommittee 4): Quality Committee*, Supplemental Directives Tiger Team, Product Documentation (*Certified as an expert.) (1998 to date) Acting Subcommittee Chair, March-August 2000. Coordinator (Convener—i.e., Chair) Quality Committee (January 2000-2003) - Erik J. Visser Fund Foundation:
Board of Directors, Founding member; President, 1995-2001 - Society for Technical Communication:
Representative from STC (academic representative) to NISO Committee, Z39.18, [Scientific and Technical Reports--Organization, Preparation, and Production {Z39.18-1987}] (1993-1995; 2001 to date) - FORUM2000, 2003:
Publications Manager for FORUM2000 and 2003 (an international conference for technical communicators) (1995-2003. ) - Oklahoma Academy of Science:
Editor, Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science (1997-2001)
Recent Grants & Research Trips
- Co-Principal Investigator: CATT Technology Infusion: Standard for the Exchange of Product data. CATT 2001. Submitted January 2001. $100,600, partially awarded (A&S portion received $42,547.43). Extension $22,967.00 awarded.
- Co-Principal Investigator: CATT Technology Infusion: Standard for the Exchange of Product data. CATT 2000. Submitted January 2001. $96,000.00 awarded.
Recent Conference Presentations
"A Brief History of Technical Writing Textbooks," Second Almost Annual Conference on Teaching Technical Writing, Southwest Missouri State University, April, 2005.
"Making Successful Writing Assignments ," Second Almost Annual Conference on Teaching Technical Writing, Southwest Missouri State University, April, 2005.
"Into the 21½st Century: Trends in Technical Communication ," Second Almost Annual Conference on Teaching Technical Writing, Southwest Missouri State University, April, 2005.
“Increasing User Acceptance of Technical Information in Cross-Cultural Communication,” Institute for Scientific and Technical Communicators Annual Conference, Buxton (England), October 2003.
“Using Compliance-Gaining Theory to Increase Technical Communication Materials Acceptance,” FORUM2003 (Milan, Italy) July 1-2, 2003.
“Trends in the Profession,” Teachers of Technical Communication Conference, Southwest Missouri State University (Springfield, MO), April 2003.
“Educating Technical Communication Students in Europe: An American Perspective,” COMTEC 2003. (Conseil des Redacteurs Techniques), Paris, March, 2003.
“How We Educate Technical Communicators in the United States,” COMTEC 2003 (Conseil des Redacteurs Techniques), Paris, March, 2003.
“Increasing User Acceptance of Technical Information in Cross-Cultural Communication: Using Compliance-Gaining and Rhetorical Strategies to increase Persuasion,” Keynote address, tekom (German technical communication society) Conference, (Zurich), April 2002.
Current Research & Projects
I have published a collection of my essays on cross-cultural communication and am now preparing two other book proposals (a revision of my technical report writing textbook and a book on communication theory as it applies to technical communication). I also do book reviews for Technical Communication: The Journal of the Society for Technical Communication. Each spring, I am a guest professor at the University of Paderborn teaching German graduate and undergraduate students about communicating technical information to American audiences in both written and oral form. During this time, I frequently deliver invited lectures to other schools in Europe that offer degree work in technical communication.
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