| Education | Work History | Invited Papers | Publications: Articles | Publications: Software | Other Publications | Dissertation |
| 2001 | MBA, University of Texas. |
| 1997 | Ph.D., Rhetoric. English Department, University of Texas. |
| 1988 | M.A., English. University of Texas. |
| 1982-84 | Graduate courses in English, Undergraduate courses in computer science. California State University, Chico. |
| 1982 | B.A., English. University of Southern California. |
Associate Professor, Texas Tech University, 2005. Technical communications, rhetoric, technology, hypertext, multimedia, argumentation. Serve on the graduate faculty, sitting on various exam and dissertation committees. Currently serve on the Technical Communication committee, working to update and expand Tech's undergraduate degree to include courses in developing materials for multimedia/hypermedia applications, the world-wide web, and other on-line environments. Also serve on English Department's Travel, Strategic Planning, Composition, and Computer committees. Director of Graduate Studies in Technical Communication and Rhetoric, 2003-present.
Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University, 1999 - 2005.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University, 1998-1999. Taught courses in technical communication and software documentation.
VP of Business Development, Daedalus Group, 1998-2001. Revised and updated the company's business plans dealing with venture capital and investment. Reviewed and managed legal matters, including copyrights, trademarks, and contracts. Served as senior editor for the Labyrinth Publications branch of the company, reviewing manuscripts and developing new projects.
CEO, Daedalus Group, 1992-1998. Coordinated the company's marketing, research and development, and third-party relationships. Managed budgets and cashflow analyses until company acquired a financial officer in 1997. Managed various projects, from software upgrades to web sites, from book editing in our new publishing venture to raising capital. Also handled legal matters, including copyrights, trademarks, and contracts.
Board of Directors, The Daedalus Group, Inc. 1988-2001.
Officer of Software Development for The Daedalus Group, Inc., 1989-1996. Developed the company's software, designed product enhancements, managed team of programmers, and directed the company's technical support personnel.
Lecturer and Instructor, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France, 1990-1. Taught first- and second-year English literature and writing courses with an emphasis on computer-based learning.
Computer Programmer, The Daedalus Group, Inc., Austin, TX, 1988-89. Designed and implemented Macintosh and DOS software in Pascal.
Assistant Director of the English Department's Computer Research Lab, 1988-1990, and 1991-3. Scheduled classes, purchased equipment, maintained computer hardware and software for educational computer classroom.
Instructor, University of Texas, 1985-9. Taught Freshman English and second-year English composition.
Instructor, California State University, Chico, 1983-4. Taught Freshman English.
Tutor, California State University, Chico, 1982-3. Worked one-on-one with undergraduate "clients" to improve writing and critical thinking.
1999-present
“Creating the First Online PhD in Technical Communication: Diversifying Program Structure through Inclusion of New Populations." Invited paper. Council of Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC). October 2004, Purdue University.
"The Consequences of Single Sourcing on Writers and Writing." Invited Presentation, Society of Technical Communication, May 2003, Dallas.
"Virtual Corporations." Invited Presentation. Frenship ISD Problem-Solving Academic Team. 23 May 2002.
“Market Matters: Why Communicators Should Care about Capitalism.” Invited Paper, CCCC, March 2002, Chicago.
"The Virtual Enterprise as Classroom Lab: Bridging the Gaps between the Disciplines and between the Academy and Industry." Invited Paper. Computers and Writing Conference, May, 2000, Fort Worth.
"Arguments in Hypertext: A Rhetorical Approach." Invited Paper. Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Hypertext 2000 Conference, May, 2000, San Antonio.
"Teaching Tools or Know-How: Seeking Equilibrium between Technology and Technique." Invited Paper. Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, April, 2000, Minneapolis.
"Bridging The Gap Between Industry and the Academy Through Cross-Disciplinary, Real-World Courses: A Solution for Today's and Tomorrow's TechComm Programs." Invited Paper, CPTSC. October, 1999, Santa Fe.
1995-98
"Four Stages of Growth and Acceptance of New Technology (CMC) in the Rhetoric Field in the 80s and 90s." Lecture and workshop, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France, May 1996.
"Creating a New Learning Environment Through Computer-Mediated Communication." Invited Paper. TESOL, March 1996, Chicago.
"Publishing Professionally: How to Transcend the Boundaries of Time and Energy." Workshop. CCCC, March 1996, Milwaukee.
Demonstration and overview of computers and composition with a particular view to the Writer's Workshop (HarperCollins software), West Point. August 1995.
Three-day workshop at Pascack High School, NJ. Overview of computers and writing, the technical and pedagogical aspects of managing a computer writing lab. June 1995.
"Electronic Argumentation: Rethinking Appeals and Fallacies through Hypertextual Writing." Invited Paper, Wyoming Conference on English, June 20, 1995, Laramie.
"The Borders on the Classroom: Using, Learning, Playing, Teaching in MUDs." Workshop. The Computers and Writing Conference, May 1995, El Paso.
"Learning Places and Cognitive Spaces." Invited Paper for the panel "Virtual Construction Sites: Building Learning Spaces on the Internet." Invited Paper, CCCC 1995, Washington, DC.
"Writing Teachers Writing the Future." Invited Paper for the Panel "When Worlds Collide: Computer Entrepreneurs in English Departments." CCCC 1995, Washington, DC.
A Writer's Exchange. Live teleconference, 2 March 1995. LeCroy Center of Dallas Community College District. Panelist.
1987-94
December 1994. Conducted all-day workshop for the City College of Santa Barbara. Consultation and information in the use of networked pedagogy for writing, ESL, and foreign languages.
"Making Connections within the Networked Writing Curriculum." Invited Paper, League for Innovation in the Community College , November 13, 1994, Houston.
"The Networked Writing Curriculum." Workshop. American Association for Higher Education, March 1994, Chicago.
"Sites of Hyper-Argumentation: Metaphors of an On-Line Cognitive Space." Invited Paper for the panel "Uncommon Sites of Argumentation: Nodes from the Margin." CCCC 1994, Nashville.
"Writing Arguments in Hypertext: A Study in Structure and Arrangement." Invited Paper, Computers and Writing Conference, Ann Arbor, 1993.
"Computer Mediated Discourse and Student Participation at Montpellier." Invited Paper, XXXIème Congrès de la S.A.E.S., Aix-en-Provence, France, May 1991.
"Telecommunications and the Networked Classroom." Invited Paper, CCCC, 1989, Seattle.
"Current Composition Theory and Microcomputer Implementations." Invited Paper, CCCC 1988, St. Louis.
"Collaborative Learning in the Electronic Classroom." Invited Paper, CCTE (Conference of College Teachers of English of Texas), Corpus Christi, March 1987.
Editor for special issue of Technical Communication on the Implications of Single Sourcing on Writers and Writing. Technical Communication 50.3 (August 2003).
Market Matters: Applied Rhetoric Studies and Free Market Competition. Hampton, 2005.
Carter, Locke. “Rhetoric, Markets, and Value Creation: An Introduction and Argument for a Productive Rhetoric.” In Market Matters: Applied Rhetoric Studies and Free Market Competition. Ed. Joyce Carter. Hampton, 2005, pp. 1-66.
Carter, Locke. Review of Democracy and New Media edited by Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn. Forthcoming in the journal Technical Communication Quarterly in spring or summer 2005.
Yeats, Dave, and Joyce Carter. "Understanding the Role of the Highlights Video in Usability Testing: A Consideration of Rhetorical and Generic Expectations." Technical Communication, 52.2 (May) 2005, pp. 156-62.
Carter, Locke, and Rebecca Rickly. "Mind the Gap(s): Modeling Space in Online Education." In Cargile Cook, K., & Grant-Davie, K. Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers. Farmingdale, NY: Baywood, 2005.
Carter, Locke. “Argument in Hypertext: Writing Strategies and the Problem of Order in a Non-Sequential World.” Computers and Composition 20 (2003), pp. 3-22.
Carter, Locke. “The Implications of Single Sourcing on Writers and Writing.” Technical Communication 50.3 (August 2003), pp. 1-4.
Carter, Locke. "Arguments in Hypertext: A Rhetorical Approach." Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia. New York: Association of Computing Machinery, 2000. 85-91.
Mengel, Susan, Joyce Carter, and Joyce Falkenberg. "A Perspective on Three Cooperating Courses ." Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training. IEEE. 1999. Pp. 265-77.
Mengel, Susan and Joyce Carter. "Multidisciplinary Education through Software Engineering." ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings. IEEE. 1999. Pp. 13a3-12 through 13a3-17.
Carter, Locke. "Bridging The Gap Between Industry and the Academy Through Cross-Disciplinary, Real-World Courses: A Solution for Today's and Tomorrow's TechComm Programs." Proceedings of 1999 CPTSC Conference, 2000, p. 61.
Carter, Locke. "Computer Mediated Discourse and Student Participation at Montpellier." Les Cahiers d'APLIUT XI (June 92): 67-76.
Carter, Locke. "DIBS: A Dynamic Interactive Branching System." English in Texas 9 (1987): 37-39.
53rd St. Writer. HarperCollins, 1991-6. Primary Macintosh author. Edited electronic versions of Scott, Foresman Handbook 3rd Ed. and Little, Brown Handbook 5th Ed.
Argumentor. Co-author. Macintosh version published by Intellimation, 1992.
BiblioCite 1.0. Daedalus Group, 1991-7. Software to manage and automate bibliographies for the Macintosh. Part of the Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment. Sole Macintosh author.
BiblioCite Pro. Daedalus Group, 1998. Software to manage and automate bibliographies for Macintosh and Windows computers. Project manager, designer, author of many of the "annotation assistants" included in the program.
Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment. IBM version co-written with Paul Taylor, 1987-8. Designated Best Writing Software at Educom 1990. Primary author of Macintosh version, 1991-3. Primary designer of current upgrades of both platforms.
Daedalus Online. Joint project with Addison-Wesley Longman, the Daedalus Group, and Headland Digital Media. Developed project 1996-8.
Elements of Writing—Writer's Workshop. Holt, Rinehart, 1997. Co-designer and planner of a CD-ROM containing writing tools based on Kinneavy's Elements of Writing for 6-12th grade students. This multimedia software is a major revision of the Writer's Workshop for Holt 1993 (below).
A Writer's Exchange. HarperCollins & Dallas Community College District, 1996. Co-designer of alternate interface to Daedalus software, prototyper, and implementer.
Writer's Prologue. St. Martin's Press, 1992. Software design and editing.
Writer's Workshop. Holt, Rinehart, 1993. Software to accompany Kinneavy's Elements of Writing for 6-12th grade students. Software design and editorial control over electronic version of handbook and exercises to accompany it.
Writer's Workshop. Addison-Wesley Longman (formerly HarperCollins), 1995-8. Software for the Macintosh and Windows computers. Designed the user interface and edited the on-line materials (hypertext versions of the Scott, Foresman Handbook, the Little, Brown Handbook, and five others).
WriteWell. On-line writing and learning center (http://writewell.daedalus.com) designed for High School and College students. Designed the web interface and the database back-end for the service. 1997-present.
"Frequently Asked Questions about Megabyte University." Megabyte University (e-mail discussion group, mbu-l@unicorn.acs.ttu.edu). A monthly summary and information sheet about Megabyte University. Monthly since 1993.
"GenderPlay." [Videotape] In ND, Issue #11. Published by Dan Plunkett, Austin, TX, 1993.
Language Learning Online: Theory and Practice in the ESL and L2 Computer Classroom. Edited by Janet Swaffar et al. Labyrinth Publications, Austin, TX, 1998. Developer and senior editor of this title, as well as the entity of Labyrinth Publications.
Arguments in Hypertext: Order and Structure in Non-Sequential Essays
DAI: AAG 9824882 (available electronically http://www.faculty.english.ttu.edu/carter/diss.pdf)
Hypertext, or non-sequential computer writing, is a mode of writing and reading that has become ubiquitous with the explosion of the world wide web. Employing short chunks of text and "hot" words that link those chunks together, hypertext is well suited to informational texts like on-line computer help and encyclopedias. The fragmented nature of hypertext also dovetails with literary writing as the reader interacts more highly with the text. As a technology of writing, hypertext should also enable other kinds of writing that are not so obvious. Argumentation is one such genre, seen increasingly by educators as a crucial skill for our students to learn, positioned by philosophers like Habermas as the central activity of society.
The purpose of this study was to examine the literature in the two seemingly disparate fields of hypertext theory and argumentation theory so as to build a common foundation for future work. After examining the discourse of these fields, I conducted a study designed to describe and analyze the argumentative and ordering strategies of participants who attempted to construct essays in a hypertextual environment. The four participants included two graduate students and two former students, one of whom was female. The essays were written and submitted in Storyspace, hypertext authoring software. Post-assignment interviews were conducted, in which the participants discussed their difficulties, successes, and strategies regarding their hypertextual essays. These essays were analyzed according to their hypertextual strategies (overall organizational metaphor, naming conventions of nodes and links, and navigational approach) and to their argument strategies (ordering principles, argument moves, and formal argument structures).
Traditional forms of argument that rely on formal demonstration do not translate well into hypertext, but certain strategies may be employed to make this hybrid discourse more successful. Attention to the metaphoric "home space," or beginning location of the essay, tends to make the related parts of the essay more unified. Removal of obvious structures that rely on sequence, such as numbering and if/then logic, help arguments function in hypertext. Finally, rhetorically-sound techniques of establishing textual coherence also contribute to the overall success of this hybrid essay format.
Committee: John Slatin (director), Jerome Bump, George Culp, Lester Faigley, James Kinneavy, & Marjorie Woods.
Member of the Board of Directors, First State Bank of Miami, 2002-present.
Editorial Board, Asian Journal of English Language Teaching (AJELT), 1996-present.
Reviewer for Technical Communication, 2000-present.
Consultant to Addison-Wesley Longman (formerly HarperCollins Publishers), reviewing and evaluating software proposals, designing new software, and serving as an editorial consultant on textbook proposals and revisions, 1992-present.
Director of the Board (1993-present) for the Alliance for Computers and Writing, founded 1993.
Video producer, assistant scriptwriter, and floor director for "Computers and Writing: Seeing Our Future by Knowing Our Past." Live video teleconference at Ball State University, 2 June 1994.
Co-organizer of the Sixth Conference on Computers and Writing, Austin, TX, May 1990.
Researcher and co-founder of University of Texas English Department's Computer Writing Research Lab in 1986-7, along with Paul Taylor and Fred Kemp.
Member of NCTE, STC, ATTW since 1988.