George L Pullman

Professional Experience

Education

1987 - 1990 Ph.D., Communication and Rhetoric, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
1985 - 1987 M.A., English Literature and Rhetoric, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
1981 - 1985 B.A. (Hon.), English Literature, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Publications

Monographs

• Writing Online: Rhetoric of the Digital Age, Hackett, Indianapolis/Cambridge. 2016
  International Journal of Communication review, 2020
• A Rule Book for Decision Making, Hackett, Indianapolis/Cambridge. 2014
• Persuasion: History, Theory, Practice, Hackett, Indianapolis/Cambridge. 2013

Refereed Journal Articles

• "From Greek to Geek" Enculturation 5.2. 2005.
• "Electronic Portfolios Revisited: the Efolios Project." Computers and Composition 19 (2002): 151 - 169.
• "A brief history and technical overview of the current state of JAC Online, with a few observations about how the Internet is influencing (or failing to influence) scholarship: Or, who says you can't find JAC Online?." Kairos 7 10 (2002): http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.x/index.html
• (reprinted)
• "Of Thieves and Liars." Studies in the Literary Imagination 28.2 (1995): 1-13.
• "Rhetoric and Hermeneutics: Literature, Invention, and Composition." Journal of Advanced Composition 14.2 (1994): 367-87.
• "Reconsidering Sophistic Rhetoric in Light of Skeptical Epistemology." Rhetoric Review 13.1 (1994): 50-68.
• "Deliberative and Forensic Stasis: Reconsidering an Ancient Disagreement in Light of the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill Controversy." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 25 (1995): 223-30.
• "Rhetoric and Hermeneutics." Freshman News 19.3 (1991): 19 - 21.
• "Interpretive Rhetoric." Proceedings from the Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Arlington, (1990): 33-40.

Edited Collections

• Designing Web-Based Applications for 21st Century Writing Classrooms. George Pullman and Baotong Gu. Eds. Amityville, NY: Baywood Press. 2012.
• Content Management: Bridging the gap between theory and practice. George Pullman and Baotong Gu. Eds. Amityville, NY: Baywood Press. 2008.
• Content Management Systems, Technical Communications Quarterly, 17.1 (2008)
  
• Studies in the Literary Imagination: Reconfiguring Rhetoric and Hermeneutics 28.2 (1995).

Articles in Edited Collections

• "Content Management Systems (CMS): What They are and What They Mean for Technical Writing Instruction and Writing Pedagogy in General", Baotong Gu and George Pullman. Pedagogy and Content Management Systems in Technical Communication, Ed. Stacy Bridgeford. Taylor & Francis for the ATTW Series, 2020.
• "Remembering: The Past and The Future" Sandy Vavra and Sharon Spencer, eds. CLASH!: Superheroic Yet Sensible Strategies for Teaching the New Literacies Despite the Status Quo. Charlotte, Information Age Publishing: 2011. 237-64.
• "Mentoring Across the Continental Divide", co-authored with Susan Thomas. Michele Eble and Lynee Gaillet eds. Stories of Mentoring: Theory & Praxis. West Layfayette, Parlor Press: 2008. 145-148.
• "Rhetorically Speaking, What’s New?" What is The New Rhetoric? Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK 2007. 16-28.
• "From Wordsmith to Object Oriented Composer." Technical Communication and the World Wide Web, Mahwah New Jersey: Lawrence Earlbaum, 2005. 43 - 59.
• "Digital Archives and the Future of Scholarly Writing, George Pullman" Digital Publishing F5 | Refreshed Second Edition. West Lafayette: Parlor Press, 2003. (electronic)
• "Rhetoric and Hermeneutics: Literature, Invention, and Composition" The Kinneavy Papers: Theory and the Study of Discourse. Albany: SUNY Press, 2000. 155 - 179.
• "Stepping into the Same Current Twice" in Post-Process Theory: Beyond the Writing- Process Paradigm. Ed. Thomas Kent. Southern Illinois University Press, 1999. 16 - 29.

Invited Journal Articles

Textbook Chapters

• "Technical writing style: brevity, clarity". Meihua Chen et al. 英文技术写作 Technical Writing. Nanjing, China: Nanjing University Press, 2023.
• "Methods in technical document development and assessment: user research and user profiling". Meihua Chen et al. 英文技术写作 Technical Writing. Nanjing, China: Nanjing University Press, 2023.
• "Methods in technical document development and assessment: persona development". Meihua Chen et al. 英文技术写作 Technical Writing. Nanjing, China: Nanjing University Press, 2023.
  
  
• "Web Pages and Other Electronic Documents." Technical Communication John M. Lannon. Edition 10. New York, Longman: 2005.

Review Essays

• "Applied Phenomenology and the Return of the Unalienated Self?" JAC 19.3 (1999): 493 - 496. (a review of Barbara Couture's Applied Phenomenology and the Return of the Unalienated Self.)

Reviews

• Christopher Lyle Johnstone, ed. Theory, Text, Context: Issues in Greek Rhetoric and Oratory. Rhetorica 16 2 (1998): 227 - 30.
• Sharon Crowley's Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 26.1 (1996): 87-90.
• John Poulakos's Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece: A New Conception of Sophistry. Quarterly Journal of Speech 82.1 (1996): 94-6.
• Mark Backman's Sophistication: Rhetoric and the Rise of SelfConsciousness. Quarterly Journal of Speech 79 (1993): 375-7.
• Janet Lloyd's translation of Jacqueline De Romilly's The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens. Quarterly Journal of Speech 79 (1993): 487-9.
• James Baumlin's John Donne and the Rhetorics of Renaissance Discourse. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 22.3 (1992): 73-6.
• Clayton Koelb's Kafka's Rhetoric: The Passion for Reading. Quarterly Journal of Speech 77 (1991): 241-2.

Encyclopedia Entries

• "Libanius." Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources. eds Michelle Ballif and Michael G. Moran. Westport, Connecticut, 2005. 241 - 44.
• "Dio Chrysostom." Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources. eds Michelle Ballif and Michael G. Moran. Westport, Connecticut, 2005. 128 - 31.
• "Semantics," Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities Vol. 1389. New York: Garland, 1996. 665-6.

Pedagogical Publications

• Instructor's Manual to accompany A Concise Guide to Technical Communication. with Lee Scholder, J.D. Pearson Longman, third edition, 2007.

Interviews

• A conversation with President Mark Becker and George Pullman, April 6, 2012
• SBS World View (mp3 file) in Australia interviewed myself, Susan Thomas of University of Sydney, and Neil James Executive Director of The Plain English Foundation of Australia regarding the New Rhetoric Conference. 2005
• "Rhetoric expert George Pullman discusses the changes brought about by digital technology" transcript , The Media Report, Radio National, Australia. November 17, 2005.

Editorial Work

• Referee for Southern Journal of Communication, 2009 -
• Into the Blogoshpere, edited collection of articles published on line (link)
• JAC Online, Online Editor, 2000 - 2005
• The Writing Instructor, Contributing Editor, 2000 -

Recent Invited Speaking Engagements

• 2019 July, 8 - 13. Nanjing Pharmaceutical University. "Persuasive Writing" A week-long class given to undergraduate students (was invited back.)
• 2018 July, 17 - 25. Nanjing Pharmaceutical University. "Persuasive Writing" A week-long class given to undergraduate students
• 2017 April, 16 - 21. Nanjing Technical University. "The Future of Technical Writing," with Baotong Gu
• 2015 June, 26. Gwinnett Tech. "MOOCS: What, Why, and How"
• 2014 June, 19 - 26. Shanghai University. "Critical Thinking and Persuasive Writing"
• 2014 April, 11. East Georgia State College, Swainsborrow and Statesboro, GA. Keynote speaker, The Critical Thinking Conference
• 2013 March, 23. Paideia School, Atlanta, GA. "Educational Technology and The Future of Learning"
• 2013 February, 14. Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA. "Writing Across the Curriculum"

Presentations at Professional Meetings

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2018