Resources for Teaching Technical Communication	Educational Assessment
History of Technical Communication	Shorthand

Teaching has been in my family for about 200 years. My great-great grandfather taught Greek and Latin in Italy, my grandmother was brought up in the first all-girl’s school in Italy that was not primarily Catholic (her mother taught there) and she graduated from the University of Florence at a time when few women attended college. My mother taught high-school French and my father, a forester, taught summer sessions for SUNY Forestry. Later my mother worked in post-secondary accreditation in the New York State Department of Education. I first taught in Sunday school when I was eleven and in high school I taught in the one-on-one reading program. Now I teach technical communication, art and design at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

My research is interdisciplinary. I analyzed the changes in technical communication in one company over time in my book, The Language of Work, and in several articles. I have published articles on writing assessment, the history of visual communication and education. My most recent scholarly interests are the history of shorthand, TAIME (the Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers), and the entry of women into the workplace in the early 20th century.

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