J. Harrison Carpenter

Instructor

harrison.carpenter@colorado.edu
303-735-3965
Ketchum 309
Dr. Carpenters home page

Ph.D., Michigan Technological University, 2001

Research Interests

My research explores the ecology of scientific writing and communication-- that is, the numerous historical, contextual, and situational factors that affect the production and reception of scientists' written communications. I have researched and written on the history of scientific writing, the pedagogy of scientific and engineering communication, and the rhetoric of environmental discourse.

Recent Publications

Carpenter , J. H. (2003). ‘We look forward and back, and pine…': Can this relationship be saved? Technical communication, composition, and the attractions of disciplinarity. Complicating Binaries: Exploring Tensions in Technical and Scientific Communication—Proceedings 2002, 29th Meeting of CPTSC. Available at http://www.cptsc.org/conferences/conference2002/program2002/program.pdf.

Carpenter , J. H. & Krest, M. (2001). It's about the science: Students writing and thinking about data in a scientific writing course. Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, 5(2), 46-65.