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Subject:Re: OT: have you heard of this person? From:Mike Stockman <stockman -at- jagunet -dot- com> To:"William Swallow" <william -dot- swallow -at- aptissoftware -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:38:13 -0500
Well, I had never heard of her either, but a web search on her name
yielded her personal home page (which includes a list of her
publications, including a book, "Writing Like an Engineer: A Rhetorical
Education," and some book chapters on writing):
It all looks very interesting... I'll have to look for her stuff myself.
Thanks for the tip.
----->Mike
On 2/24/00 2:14 PM, William Swallow (william -dot- swallow -at- aptissoftware -dot- com)
wrote:
>I was recently working on a project when someone dropped a name that they
>just sort of assumed that I should know, but ... I've never heard of this
>person & no one around here has either. Am I missing something really cool
>by not having read her book or gone to one of her lectures?
>
>Her name is: Dorothy Winsor & she's a professor at Iowa State.
