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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Karen – You have adroitly taken the words right out of my mouth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Karen Schriver<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, September 27, 2020 1:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ann Blakeslee <ablakesle@emich.edu><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ATTW-L] Technical Communication's new editor: Miriam Williams<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sam has been nothing short of amazing in guiding <i>Technical Communication</i> to produce articles of high quality and significant value to a wide audience! He has been generous with his time and gracious in his feedback to authors. He
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you, Sam.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sep 27, 2020, at 1:55 PM, Ann Blakeslee <<a href="mailto:ablakesle@emich.edu">ablakesle@emich.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I second Karen. This is fantastic news. Congratulations, Miriam! And much gratitude, Sam!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 1:52 PM Karen Schriver <<a href="mailto:kschriver00@gmail.com">kschriver00@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Congratulations, Miriam Williams! The field is very excited to have you as the new Editor-in-Chief of
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">The Board of Directors of the Society for Technical Communication is pleased to announce that Dr. Miriam F. Williams of Texas State University will assume
the position of Editor-in-Chief for the journal, <i>Technical Communication</i>, starting in January 2021. Dr. Williams is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of English at Texas State and previously directed its MA program in Technical Communication.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="background:white">In her professional career, Dr. Williams worked for the Texas Department of Health and Human Services Commission (DHS) as a Policy Specialist and Regulation Editor/Developer. Later, at DHS, Dr. Williams served as the Program Administrator
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">Dr. Williams is an award winning scholar, including the 2020 CCCC Award for Best Article Reporting Historical Research or Textual Studies in Technical and
Scientific Communication (“</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Technologies of Disenfranchisement: Literacy Tests and Black Voters in the US from 1890 to 1965,” <i>Technical Communication</i> 65.4, 2018, <span style="background:white">co-authored
with Natasha N. Jones) and the 2016 CCCC Award for </span>Best Original Collection of Essays in Technical or Scientific Communication (<i>Communicating Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Technical Communication</i>, Routledge, 2014, co-edited with Octavio Pimentel). <span style="background:white">In
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