Technical Communication Intersections: Integrating Theory, Research, Teaching, and Practice

Rachel Spilka is Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her current research interests are in re-examining audience and defining, from the perspective of students, promising strategies for achieving greater diversity in academic programs in the field. Over the past thirty years, she has interspersed academic positions with work in industry, including serving as manager of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) Research Grants Committee and Ken Rainey Excellence in Research Award Committee. Her previous edited volumes Writing in the Workplace: New Research Perspectives (Southern Illinois University Press, 1993) and, with Barbara Mirel, Reshaping Technical Communication: New Directions for the 21st Century (Eribaum, 2003) both received the Best Edited Collection Award in Scientific and Technical Communication from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).Spilka, Rachel is the author of 'Technical Communication Intersections: Integrating Theory, Research, Teaching, and Practice', published 2009 under ISBN 9780805852738 and ISBN 0805852735.