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Geoffrey A. Cross

Geoffrey A. Cross

Appointments

  • Professor

Departments

Location

  • Room 333 A
  • Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
  • Office Hours: M 4:00-6:00, T Th 10:45-11:15, and by appointment

Phone Number

  • 502-852-6060

Email Address

Website

Bio

Office Hours:

M 4:00-6:00, T Th 10:45-11:15, and by appointment

 

English Courses Recently Taught:

Engl 687: Qualitative Research Methods (Spring, 2010)

ENGL 101 - 09: Introduction to College Writing - WC (Spring, 2009)
ENGL 303 - 02: Scientific and Technical Writing (Spring, 2009)
ENGL 303 - 03: Scientific and Technical Writing (Spring, 2008)
ENGL 675 - 01:  Studies in Professional Writing (Spring, 2008)
ENGL 101 - 42: Introduction to College Writing (Fall, 2007)
ENGL 303 - 01: Scientific and Technical Writing (Fall, 2007)
ENGL 303 - 03: Scientific and Technical Writing (Spring, 2007)
ENGL 303 - 04: Scientific and Technical Writing (Spring, 2007)
ENGL 101 - 20: Introduction to College Writing - WC (Fall, 2006)
ENGL 306 - 03: Business Writing (Fall, 2006)
ENGL 306 - 21: Business Writing (Summer, 2006)
ENGL 675 - 70: Studies in Professional Writing (Summer, 2006)
ENGL 687 - 02: Seminar in Rhetorical Studies (Spring, 2006)


Educational Background

  • Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, diss. on team written communication
  • M.A., English The Ohio State University, thesis on computer-assisted instruction
  • M.A., Journalism, The University of Missouri. London Reporting Program, advert.,photo.
  • Teaching Certification Program Indiana-Purdue University at Indianapolis
  • B.A., English (Creative Writing Emphasis) Miami University, Oxford, OH.

Teaching Areas

  • Rhetoric & Composition, Business and Technical Writing, American Literature Until 1900, Ethnographic and Other Qualitative Research Methods

Research Interests

  • Verbal-visual Composing.
  • Group Writing (incl. Publications Management, Social Cognition).
  • Visual Design, Ethnographic Research Methods, Media Interaction, Business and Technical Communication, Writing Across the Curriculum/in the Disciplines, Stylistics, Advanced & Intermediate Composition, Computer-Assisted Composition Pedagogy

Professional Activities

  • Editorial Board, Journal of Business Communication
  • Research Committee, Association for Business Communication

Honors & Awards

  • NCTE 1995 Best Book in Scientific and Technical Communication Award, for Collaboration and Conflict
  • 1997 Association for Business Communication Outstanding Researcher Award
  • 2002 Best Book in Scientific and Technical Communication Award, for Forming the Collective Mind
  • 2002 Association for Business Communication Distinguished Publication Award
  • 2005 UofL Arts and Sciences Outstanding Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activity Award

Professional Memberships

  • Member, CCCC, NCTE, ATTW, ABC, STC, Phi Delta Kappa, The Society of Professional Journalists

Publications

  • Collaboration and Conflict

    Winner of 1995 NCTE, ATTW Best Book in Scientific and Technical Communication Award

  • Forming the Collective Mind

    •   This book is the winner of the 2002 Association for Business Communication Distinguished Publication Award and the 2003 NCTE Best Book Award in Scientific and Technical Communication.  (Mahwah, NJ:  Hampton Press).


  • Envisioning Collaboration: Group Verbal-Visual Composing in a System of Creativity

    An ethnography of artist-writer and large-group collaboration in advertising.  Amityville, NY:  Baywood Publications.  2010.
 
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