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Jason Swarts

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Professor

Department Head

Department of English

Tompkins Hall 201

919-515-4245
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Bio

Jason Swarts is a professor of technical communication and Head of the Department of English at North Carolina State University. His broad research areas include technical communication practice, genre, networks, and knowledge work. His specific research projects examine technical communication practices in the context of new and emerging technologies of communication production and distribution. He also works on issues of decision support particularly on decisions requiring the clear and persuasive communication of data and other technical information.

He teaches courses on documentation practices, networks, and discourse analysis.

Office Hours

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Education

Ph.D. Communication and Rhetoric Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2002

Area(s) of Expertise

technical communication, mixed quantitative/qualitative discourse analysis, corpus techniques for text analysis, usability testing, and user needs research and design.

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