Joyce Locke Carter

I'm a techno-rhetorician, which means I study the ways technology (mostly computers and software) affect, enable, and/or modify rhetorical acts. I have explored how argumentative structures are modified by hypertextual linking. Lately, I have been investigating how rhetorical messages compete with each other, and I've been looking at the mechanisms of markets to help this research. I'm also an entrepreneur, having developed software products with the Daedalus Group for ten years before coming to Texas Tech. I continue to develop new products, new solutions, and new partnerships for education. My official vita has all the details.

Classes 

Spring 2008.  I'm teaching ENGL 4380.

Texas Tech University 

I am an associate professor in the English department, where I serve (or have served) on the following committees:  Technology, Composition, Travel, Strategic Planning, and Technical Communication.  I am also the Director of Graduate Studies in Technical Communication and Rhetoric. I teach courses in Rhetoric and Technical Communication.  I also work with graduate students on dissertation projects.  

My book, Market Matters: Applied Rhetoric Studies and Free Market Competition, was printed and is available:  Hampton Press,  ISBN 1-57273-574-0 (cloth) for $55.00 and 1-57273-575-9 (paper) for $24.95. See www.marketmatters.info.

Personal

In 1990, I helped put together the 6th Computer and Writing Conference in Austin.  There was no web at the time, but I have since converted the C&W 1990 Abstracts into web format for your entertainment.

Megabyte University FAQ
My dissertation on hypertextual argumentation.

Frontier Epistemology (ppt) (htm) slides from keynote talk to Computers and Writing Conference, Lubbock, May 2006)