Jordan Smith

Contact Information

Education

• Ph. D., Iowa State University, Department of English
• M.P.C., Weber State University, Department of Communication
• B.A., Brigham Young University, Department of Linguistics

Professional/Academic Experience

• Assistant professor, Department of English, University of Northern Colorado, 2024–present
• Assistant professor, Department of Technical Communication, University of North Texas, 2019–2024 
• Graduate teaching/research assistant, Department of English, Iowa State University
• Adjunct instructor, Program in Digital Humanities and Technology (formerly Computers and the Humanities), Brigham Young University

Research/Areas of Interest

Editing and publishing, English grammar and usage, corpus linguistics, content/discourse/text analysis, prescriptivism, formality in writing

Publications/Creative Works

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Smith, J. & Batchelor, J. (under review). Qualitative considerations for building corpora of business-related texts. International Journal of Business Communication.

Batchelor, J. & Smith, J. (forthcoming). Communicating science to the public: A comparison of lexicogrammatical features in student-produced and popular science writing. Technical Communication.

Smith, J. (2024). Determining levels of prescriptivism in American English usage guides. Technical Communication, 71(2), 26–42. https://doi.org/10.55177/tc377227

Smith, J. (2023). Corpus linguistics and technical editing: How corpora can help copyeditors adopt a rhetorical view of prescriptive usage rules. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 37(2), 194–216. https://doi.org/10.1177/105065192211431

Campbell, K. S., Naidoo, J. S., & Smith, J. (2023). When your boss says, “You need to sound more professional”: Writing style and writer attributions. International Journal of Business Communication, 60(4), 1071–1094. https://doi.org/10.1177/232948842110257

Smith, J. (2020). A content analysis of figure captions in academic journals from four disciplines. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 63(4), 341–360. 10.1109/TPC.2020.3032049

Smith, J., Mackiewicz, J., Hanson, D., Fanning, S. N., & Doan, S. (2016). The communicative work of biology-journal captions: Lessons for technical and professional communication. Technical Communication Quarterly, 25(4), 260–277. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2016.1222453

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapter

Gray, B., Cotos, E., & Smith, J. (2020). Combining rhetorical move analysis with multi-dimensional analysis: Research writing across disciplines. In U. Römer, V. Cortes, and E. Friginal (Eds.) Advances in corpus-based research on academic writing: Effects of discipline, register, and writer expertise. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.95.06gra

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Smith, J. (2023, July). Extended abstract: Analyzing prescriptivism in usage guides: Implications for tech comm. In 2023 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm). (pp. 149–151). IEEE. 10.1109/ProComm57838.2023.00037

Smith, J. (2020, July). Extended abstract: Using empirical data to inform technical-editing pedagogies. In 2020 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm) (pp. 192–194). IEEE. 10.1109/ProComm48883.2020.00044

Reviews

Smith, J. (2022). [Review of the book Researching genres across languages: Multimodal communication online, by Carmen Pérez-Llantada]. English for Specific Purposes, 67, 62–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2022.04.001

Smith, J. (2020). [Review of the book Register variation online, by Douglas Biber and Jesse Egbert]. Register Studies, 2(1), 166–171. https://doi.org/10.1075/rs.19018.smi

Smith, J. (2020). [Review of the book Corpus stylistics, by Dan McIntyre and Brian Walker]. Corpora, 15(2), 243–246. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2020.0196

Smith, J. (2019). [Review of the book Regional variation in written American English, by Jack Grieve]. Corpora, 14(1), 131–134. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2019.0164

He, L., & Smith, J. (2019). [Review of the software ImmerseMe, produced by ImmerseMe Ltd.]. In J. Levis, C. Nagle, & E. Todey (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10^th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference, ISSN 2380-9566, Ames, IA, September 2018, 461–466.