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Associate Professor, Director of Technical and Professional Writing

Sarah Read is an Associate Professor in the English Department and is the Director of Technical and Professional Writing.

She is currently teaching professional and technical writing courses at Portland State University.

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Sarah Read is an Associate Professor in the English Department and is the Director of Technical and Professional Writing.

She is currently teaching professional and technical writing courses at Portland State University.

Articles (13)

Special Issue Introduction: Writing Infrastructure

Communication Design Quarterly (2022)

Sarah Read and Jordan Frith

This article is the introduction to the second of two Communication and Design Quarterly special issues focused on conceptualizations of ...

100% Say Writing Is Important to Their Work, But What ...

English Faculty Publications and Presentations (2022)

This paper explores preliminary results from an on-going IRB-approved online survey of workers in scientific, academic, technical and industrial contexts ...

Open Educational Resources and Technical and Professional Communication: Challenges, Opportunities ...

Programmatic Perspectives (2021)

Henry Covey, Sarah Read and Jordana Bowen

Global, national, and state proponents of open educational resources (OERs) have argued for their value based on data suggesting that ...

How to Build a Supercomputer: U.S. Research Infrastructure and ...

Written Communication (2020)

In this article, I argue that technical reporting and documentation processes function to mitigate uncertainty and enable complex systems in ...

The Infrastructural Function: A Relational Theory of Infrastructure for Writing ...

English Faculty Publications and Presentations (2019)

This article theorizes the term infrastructure as a framework for articulating how writing products, activities, and processes underwrite organizational life ...

Crossing Boundaries with Research Tools: The Value of a Mobile ...

SIGDOC '19: Proceedings of the 37th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication (2019)

This experience report discusses the value of a commercially available mobile ethnography tool used by customer experience researchers in the ...

Who Teaches Technical and Professional Communication Service Courses?: Survey Results ...

Programmatic Perspectives (2018)

Sarah Read and Michael J. Michaud

In this article, we offer answers to the question, “Who teaches the technical and professional communication service course and in ...

Hidden in Plain Sight: Findings from a Survey on the ...

English Faculty Publications and Presentations (2018)

Sarah Read and Michael J. Michaud

In this article, we report on findings from a survey of writing instructors who teach the multimajor professional writing course ...

The Net Work Genre Function

Journal of Business and Technical Communication (2016)

This study theorizes genre from within actor-network theory. The net work (spelled intentionally as two words) function of genre proposes ...

Visualizing and Tracing: Research Methodologies for the Study of Networked ...

Technical Communication Quarterly (2015)

Sarah Read and Jason Swarts

This article demonstrates, by example, 2 approaches to the analysis of knowledge work. Both methods draw on network as a ...

Writing about Writing and the Multimajor Professional Writing Course

College Composition and Communication (2015)

Sarah Read and Michael J. Michaud

This article connects the pedagogy of the multimajor professional writing (MMPW) course with two important contemporary discussions in composition studies: ...

The Negotiation of Writer Identity in Engineering Faculty - Writing Consultant ...

Journal of Writing Research (2011)

Negotiating faculty-writing consultant collaborations in engineering contexts can be challenging when the writing consultant originates in the humanities. The author ...

The Mundane, Power, and Symmetry: A Reading of the Field ...

Technical Communication Quarterly (2011)

Dorothy Winsor's induction as an ATTW Fellow in 2007 and the disciplinary moment of reflection invited by this issue provide ...

Contribution to Book

Locating Common Ground for Collaboration: Using Critical Thinking to Teach ...

Sojourning in Disciplinary Cultures: A Case Study of Teaching Writing in Engineering (2019)

Sarah Read and Maureen Mathison

Chapter in Sojourning in Disciplinary Cultures: A Case Study of Teaching Writing in Engineering

Contribution to Book

Negotiating WAW-PW Across Diverse Institutional Contexts

Next Steps: New Directions for/in Writing About Writing (2019)

Michael J. Michaud and Sarah Read

In this chapter, we build on our previous work investigating the intersections of Writing About Writing (WAW) pedagogies and the ...

Contribution to Book

Writing Down the Machine: Enacting Latourian Ethnography to Trace How ...

Posthuman Praxis in Technical Communication (2018)

As a way of introducing this contribution, I would like to explain its purpose and its value for technical communication. ...

Contribution to Book

Making a Thing of Quality Child Care: Latourian Rhetoric Doing ...

Thinking with Bruno Latour in Rhetoric and Composition (2015)

In this chapter I turn to Latour's methodology of tracing associations to show how composition might perform the elusive activity ...

OER Guide for WR 227 Instructors: Using Open Educational Resources ...

PDXOpen: Open Educational Resources (2021)

Sarah Read, Jordana Bowen and Henry Covey

The "OER Guide for WR 227 Instructors: Using Open Educational Resources (OERs) in WR 227 Courses" aims to help instructors ...

Room 4: OER for Technical Writing

Open Educational Resources Symposium (2021)

Sarah Read, Henry Covey, Sue Kunda and Susan Payne

Birds of a Feather Session 1: May 14, 11-12 Room 4: OER for Technical Writing Zoom Link: https://lanecc.zoom.us/j/95644844195 Related Content ...

The Present and Future of OERs and TPW

Open Educational Resources Symposium (2021)

At PSU we have recently authored the "OER Guide for WR 227 Instructors: Using Open Educational Resources (OERs) in WR ...

Operational Metrics Reporting Processes at Scientific User Facilities: Comparing a ...

Professional Communication Conference (ProComm), 2017 IEEE International (2017)

Sarah Read and Michael E. Papka

This brief paper follows up on a question proposed at the end of a research paper by the authors published ...

Improving Models of Document Cycling: Accounting for the Less Visible ...

Professional Communication Conference (IPCC), 2016 IEEE International (2016)

Sarah Read and Michael E. Papka

Conventional models of document cycling for periodic report writing in large organizations limit what is represented to the final stages ...

Genre Cycling: The Infrastructural Function of an Operational Assessment Review ...

SIGDOC '14 Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on The Design of Communication (2014)

Sarah Read and Michael E. Papka

This paper reports on the first phase of a study of technical documentation and reporting at a scientific supercomputing user ...

Participatory Design in the Development of a Web-based Technology for ...

SIGDOC '12 Proceedings of the 30th ACM international conference on Design of communication (2012)

Sarah Read, Anna DelaMerced and Mark Zachry

This study raises the question of how to make an analytical tool developed for and by researchers for visualizing writing ...