After four years of excellent work as the inaugural editor of the ATTW book series in technical and professional communication, Dr. Jo Mackiewicz has stepped down as series editor. We are grateful for her work and the four publications added to the series under Jo’s tenure. As we begin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ATTW and imagine what the future of the organization might be, we are pleased to announce Dr. Tharon Howard from Clemson University as our new editor for the ATTW book series.
With expertise in usability, user experience, academic publishing, and multi-media publishing and teaching Dr. Howard brings his interests in interdisciplinary publishing and multi-modal pedagogy to ATTW. He currently serves as the production editor for Clemson’s Center for Electronic and Digital Publishing where, alongside traditional academic publishing, Dr. Howard teaches graduate students to develop and maintain digital and web publications. His commitment to academic publishing and multi-modal innovations in scholarly publication make him the perfect fit to take the editorial helm at ATTW. We are looking forward to working with him as the book series progresses.
Biography
Dr. Tharon W. Howard teaches in the Master of Arts in Professional Communication program and the Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design doctoral program at Clemson University. He is a recipient of the STC’s J.R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching Technical Communication and is a nationally recognized leader in the field of usability and user experience research. As Director of the Clemson University Usability Testing Facility, he has conducted sponsored research aimed at improving and creating new software interfaces, online document designs, and information architectures for clients including Pearson Higher Education, IBM, NCR Corp., and AT&T. For his work promoting the importance of usability in both industry and technical communication, Dr. Howard was awarded the Usability Professionals Association’s “Extraordinary Service Award.” Howard serves as the Production Editor for Clemson’s Center for Electronic and Digital Publishing where—in addition to producing scholarly journals, books, fliers, and brochures—he teaches MAPC and RCID graduate students to create and maintain digital publications and websites. He also designed and directed Clemson’s Multimedia Authoring Teaching and Research Facility where faculty and graduate students in architecture, arts, and humanities learn to develop fully interactive, stand-alone multimodal productions and experiment with emerging instructional technologies, augmented reality devices, and interface designs. Howard is the author of Design to Thrive: Creating Online Communities and Social Networks That Last; A Rhetoric of Electronic Communities, co-author of Visual Communication: A Writer’s Guide, co-editor of Electronic Networks: Crossing Boundaries and Creating Communities, and has articles in journals including Technical Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, and Computers and Composition.
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