Jordan Smith

Phone 970-351-2279
Location Ross 1140A
Office Hours MWF 1 - 2 pm, and by appointment
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Education

PhD, Iowa State University, Department of English-2019

MPC, Weber State University, Department of Communication-2013

2008 BA, Brigham Young University, Department of Linguistics-2008

Professional Experience & Affiliations

  • Assistant professor, Department of English, سԹ, 2024–present
  • Assistant professor, Department of Technical Communication, University of North Texas, 2019–2024
  • Graduate teaching/research assistant, Department of English, Iowa State University
  • Adjunct instructor, Program in Digital Humanities and Technology (formerly Computers and the Humanities), Brigham Young University

Courses Taught

ENG 122, College Composition

ENG 123, Writing and Research Methods

ENG 218, Introduction to Linguistics

ENG 225, Research Writing for Contemporary Culture

ENG 301, Writing as a Job

ENG 427, Substantive Editing

ENG 540, Introduction to Composition and Rhetoric

ENG 650, Advanced Editing

Research Expertise & Interests

Editing and publishing,English grammar and usage,corpus linguistics,content/discourse/text analysis,prescriptivism, formality in writing

Publications

Batchelor, J. &Smith, J.(in press). Communicating science to the public: A comparison oflexicogrammaticalfeatures in student-produced and popular science writing. In M. Williams & L.Melonçon(Eds.),Liminality: The work of resilience in technical communication. WAC Clearinghouse.

Aune, J. E., Baker, M. J., Mackiewicz, J., &Smith, J.(publishedonline). Anthropomorphizing artificial intelligence: A corpus study of mental verbs used withAIandChatGPT.Technical Communication Quarterly, 1–20.doi:10.1080/10572252.2025.2593840

Smith, J., Santos, M., &Bomely, K. (2025).The writing, editing, and publishing major concentration at the سԹ.Programmatic Perspectives, 16(2),266–291.https://programmaticperspectives.cptsc.org/index.php/jpp/article/view/134/202

Smith, J., Baker, M. J.,Wilde, L., &McMillan, S. (2025).IntroducingTrackEDT: A tool to accelerate empirical editing research.IEEE Transactions on ProfessionalCommunication,68(4),514–527.doi:10.1109/TPC.2025.3615256

Smith, J.& Batchelor, J. (2025).Qualitative considerations for building corporaof business-related texts.International Journal of Business Communication, 62(4), 685–709.doi:10.1177/23294884251364526

Smith, J.(2024).Determininglevels of prescriptivism inAmerican Englishusage guides.Technical Communication, 71(2), 26–42.doi:10.55177/tc377227

Smith, J.(2023). Corpus linguistics and technical editing: Howcorpora canhelp copyeditors adopt a rhetorical view of prescriptive usagerules.Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 37(2), 194–216.doi:10.1177/10506519221143125

Campbell, K. S., Naidoo, J. S., &Smith, J.(2023).When your boss says, “You need to sound more professional”: Writing style andwriterattributions.International Journal of Business Communication, 60(4), 1071–1094.doi:10.1177/23294884211025735

Smith, J.(2020). A content analysis of figure captions in academic journals from four disciplines.IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 63(4), 341–360.doi:10.1109/TPC.2020.3032049

Gray, B.,Cotos, E., &Smith, J.(2020). Combining rhetorical move analysis with multi-dimensional analysis: Research writing across disciplines. In U. Römer, V. Cortes, and E. Friginal(Eds.)Advances in corpus-based research on academic writing: Effects of discipline, register, and writerexpertise. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.doi:10.1075/scl.95.06gra

Smith, J., Mackiewicz, J., Hanson, D., Fanning, S. N., & Doan, S. (2016). The communicative work of biology-journal captions: Lessons for technical and professional communication.Technical Communication Quarterly, 25(4), 260–277.doi:10.1080/10572252.2016.1222453