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Using English Studies to Explore and Promote Academic Public Service: A Key Facet of Missouri State University's Public Affairs Mission
Since 1994, a member of the
Professional/Technical Writing Program
of the
Department of
English at
Missouri State University. Email invited-dlhenson@missouristate.edu |
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Ph.D. in English Studies, Illinois State
University (1982)--the
nation's first and only doctoral program in English studies--;
M.S. in English, Illinois State University (1969);
B.S. in English, Illinois State University (1964)
"Using the Internet as a Tool for Public
Service: Creating a Community History Web Site." Journal of Technical
Writing & Communication 35.1 (2005): 71-94. (refereed) (abstract). More academic public service
publications at
Research. |
Completing Formal Education
in
the 20th Century (1948--1982)
Using It in the 21st
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When I was a kid, my dad took me fishing, and it became my favorite hobby, affording some interesting challenges and results. In the first technical writing course I took (1977), I used my knowledge of fishing to write two assignments: a description of a mechanism (a prototype of a top-water fishing lure) and a set of instructions for ice fishing in the Midwest. Those documents will be included in my professional autobiography, tentatively titled How I Went from Basic Writing Student to Professor Emeritus of English Teaching Technical Communication in Only Forty-Five Years (I got hung up in high school, where I spent 34 years--the usual four as a student and 30 more as a teacher).
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