User:Douglas Eyman

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As Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing, Douglas Eyman teaches courses in digital rhetoric, technical and scientific communication, and professional writing at George Mason University's English department, where he has helped to revise the curricula of both the undergraduate concentration in Writing and Rhetoric and graduate concentration in Professional Writing and Rhetoric, as well as co-designing and directing the new [in Writing and Rhetoric]. His current research interests include investigations of digital literacy acquisition and development, new media scholarship, electronic publication, information design/information architecture, teaching in digital environments, and massive multiplayer online role playing games as sites for digital rhetoric research.

Eyman is the senior editor of [|Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy], an online journal that has been publishing peer-reviewed scholarship on computers and writing since 1996. In addition to his work with Kairos, Doug also coordinates the Computer Connection at the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. His scholarly work has appeared in Pedagogy;;, ;;Technical Communication, Computers and Composition, and the edited collections Cultural Practices of Literacy (Erlbaum, 2007), Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues (Hampton Press, 2007), The Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and New Business Practices (IGI, 2008), and Rhetorically Rethinking Usability (Hampton Press, 2008), among others.

His monograph, Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice is forthcoming from University of Michigan Press.

Doug is also currently serving as chair of the CCCC committee on Computers in Composition and Communication, and has served on a number of CCCC and NCTE related committees, task forces, and editorial boards and has served as a proposal and manuscript reviewer for a wide range of conferences and journals in the fields of technical communication, composition, and game studies.