Luke Thominet

Text at Scale: Corpus Analysis in Technical Communication: Stephen Carradini and Jason Swarts: [Book Review]

Gissell Del Castillo and I published a review of Swarts and Carradini's Text at Scale. The book is a wonderful read that illustrates how researchers can think about the research methods. I'll be using it in my graduate methods course this spring.

Full review: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112...

The deadline for our Career Advancement Grants is today! It provides funds for early career scholars to do research related to communication design. We've had some wonderful projects in recent years and look forward to seeing your proposals!

Applications must be emailed to sigdocacm@gmail.com no later than 11:59 on November 20, 2025. Winners will be selected by December 7, 2025 in time for projects planned for spring 2026 or later. All applicants must be members of SIGDOC. 2/2

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Seriously considering applying for our Design Justice Program! It pays SIGDOC members to work with nonprofits on communication design projects. You'll also have the opportunity to present that work at next year's conference.

Practice Interview Workshop In this workshop, we'll pair faculty members with people on the job market to practice for academic interviews. To participate in the workshop, you must be a current ACM and/or SIGDOC member.

There is still time to register for SIGDOC’s member-only free online speed interview workshop!!

For whom: Students starting the job search soon

When: 3:00-4:30 PM EST, Friday, November 14

Where: Register in advance for this Zoom meeting: ncsu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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We're looking for research articles, experience reports, and industry insight papers. If you were involved with STC or work with similar organizations, we'd particularly like to hear from you. Queries welcome at stcspecialissue@gmail.com.

STC membership declined from over 20,000 in the early 2000s to 1,300 when it closed. It was impacted by changing professional practices, technologies, and education. But these challenges aren't unique to STC. They should concern anyone running organizations or academic programs in our field.

Huiling, Xiaoli, and I are editing a CDQ special issue on sustaining tech comm professional organizations in times of disruption, especially in light of the dissolution of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) in January. Proposals are due Dec 15.

CFP: drive.google.com/file/d/1WfPt...

Assistant Teaching Professor in Writing Studies - College Arts Sciences & Education - HigherEdJobs Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

The FIU Writing and Rhetoric Program is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor in Writing Studies! It's a wonderful department and program to work in. The official review date for application material is November 14, 2025.

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It's a great opportunity for early career researchers. Past projects have used the funds to purchase needed software or technologies, to compensate participants and collaborators, or simply as stipends to allow them to set aside time for the project. We're looking forward to seeing your proposals!

We explore how graduate program websites promote a instrumental value for degrees, focusing on what they can do for students after graduation rather than on the experiences during the degree. There’s room for more caring, human-centered ways to describe our programs to prospective students.

Excited to present with Shawbe Seal at #SIGDOC25 today at 2 PM!

Our paper, “Marketing Technical Communication: A Content Analysis of Value Propositions on Master’s Degree Websites" is available open access at dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Through the Design Justice Program, SIGDOC partners with nonprofits in our conference locations to support justice-centered initiatives in communication design. In anticipation of SIGDOC '26, we organized partnerships with with two nonprofit organizations in in Minneapolis, MN: Clare Housing and Hmong American Partnership. More information about each partner is available below. CHAP Hmong American Partnership (HAP) is a social service and community development nonprofit that serves nearly 30,000 individuals annually. Originally founded in 1990 to serve Minnesota's growing Hmong population, it is now the largest Hmong-serving organization in the nation. As part of the Design Justice Program, they are seeking help with one of two potential projects: 1. Develop a national social media communications plan for their subsidiary, Hmong National Development. Specifically, they would like to publicize data and reports from their recent conference. 2. Work with HAP's development team to design a culturally sensitive fundraising strategy that increases support through individual giving, donations and grants. clare housing HOME • HEALTH • HOPE Clare Housing provides a continuum of affordable and supportive housing options that create healing communities and optimize the health of people living with HIV/AIDS. As part of the Design Justice Program, they are seeking help with one of two potential projects: 1. Develop communications strategy for the Journey Home Circle (JHC), a donor society for those giving $1,000+ annually. The project might include researching donor motivations, defining the meaningful benefits of JHC, or creating marketing materials (e.g., a brochure or one pager) to inspire membership. 2. Produce 4-5 short videos featuring people with the lived experience of HIV and housing instability. The goal of this project is to develop multimodal storytelling tools to highlight the impact of Clare Housing's work. Award Details Participation in this program comes with a $…

Announcing the 2025-2026 Design Justice Program! Applications are due December 1.

Please view the attached photo for more details, and visit sigdoc.acm.org/awards for information about previous Design Justice awardees.

Really looking forward to it!

Many thanks to Charles Woods for having us on the podcast! SIGDOC is a wonderful community. It has been an academic home for many people in our leadership since our days as grad students.

Richard Johnson–Sheehan and Paul Thompson Hunter

My review of Richard Johnson-Sheehan and Paul Thompson Hunter's Writing Proposals and Grants was published in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. It's a wonderful introduction to grant writing for tech comm students.

The full review is here: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/110...

Dr. Byrd will discuss how Generative AI models, such as ChatGPT, can promote a standardized version of English that marginalizes the rich variety of languages and dialects that reflect our identities, particularly in places like Miami. We hope to see you there!

The 2025 FIU Writing and Rhetoric Speaker Series. Dr. Antonio Byrd will be presenting Why Don't You Talk Black?: Generative AI Performing as Linguistic Pleasure Tools. February 6, 2025 in the College of Business Complex, Room 233 on the FIU MMC Campus.

I am thrilled to share that the FIU Writing and Rhetoric Program is bringing Dr. Antonio Byrd to Miami for our yearly speaker series! Join us this Thursday, February 6, from 5:00 to 7:30 PM at the College of Business Complex, Room 233 on the MMC Campus. This event is free and open to the public.

Just submitted my proposal!

SIGDOC 2025 proposals are due in 2 weeks!

For more information, please visit our website: sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2...

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Happy to contribute to the chihuahua content. (This is my chi, Jake. He's a very sweet pup.)

Also would be happy to be included. Thanks!

If you're so inclined, I'd be happy to be added. I don't typically post much on any social media though, so I can't be sure that will change here. Still, it's nice to see some of the community from old twitter again 😊

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Appreciate the support, as always. ☺️

That said, we wrote this partially because it was fun. We intentionally chose a messy design for our research, so I don't think it was ever going to "succeed." Still, exploring why was useful. Though I also think we could go further if we expand on it.

How Our AI-assisted Qualitative Analysis Failed | Proceedings of the 42nd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

My team's article from SIGDOC 2024 is available open access for now: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/....

We wanted to contribute to conversations about failure in research. So, we analyzed our own attempt to work with GenAI on a quality analysis project through the lens of generative failure.