<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Sam has been nothing short of amazing in guiding <i class="">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 represents the gold standard for journal editors. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you, Sam.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
Karen
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 27, 2020, at 1:55 PM, Ann Blakeslee <<a href="mailto:ablakesle@emich.edu" class="">ablakesle@emich.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">I second Karen. This is fantastic news. Congratulations, Miriam! And much gratitude, Sam!</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Ann</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 1:52 PM Karen Schriver <<a href="mailto:kschriver00@gmail.com" class="">kschriver00@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">What wonderful news, Sam!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Congratulations, Miriam Williams! The field is very excited to have you as the new Editor-in-Chief of <i class="">Technical Communication! </i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><span style="font-style:normal" class="">I look forward to working with you.</span></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div 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style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class=""><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(19,21,22);background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial" class="">It is a privilege to share with you this exciting news:<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(19,21,22);background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:white" class="">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,<span class=""> </span><i class="">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.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt" class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial" class="">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 for Regulation Editors.<span class=""> </span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:white" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:white" class="">After completing her PhD in Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University, Dr. Williams started her academic career at Texas State University in 2005. She served as the Presidential Fellow for 2011-2012 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2014.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:white" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:white" class="">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:11pt" class="">Technologies of Disenfranchisement: Literacy Tests and Black Voters in the US from 1890 to 1965,”<span class=""> </span><i class="">Technical Communication</i><span class=""> </span>65.4, 2018,<span class=""> </span><span style="background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial" class="">co-authored with Natasha N. Jones) and the 2016 CCCC Award for<span class=""> </span></span>Best Original Collection of Essays in Technical or Scientific Communication (<i class="">Communicating Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Technical Communication</i>, Routledge, 2014, co-edited with Octavio Pimentel). <span class=""> </span><span style="background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial" class="">In 2017, she was elevated to Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW). </span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial" class="">Dr. Williams views practitioner-academic collaborations in research as a central part of her vision for the journal. As a scholar and practitioner with a commitment to social justice, she intends to keep the journal relevant, timely, and award winning. <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt" class="">Sam<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">Sam Dragga<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">Professor Emeritus, Texas Tech University<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">Editor,<span class=""> </span><i class="">Technical Communication</i><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""><a href="mailto:sam.dragga@ttu.edu" target="_blank" class="">sam.dragga@ttu.edu</a><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">1-806-543-6099<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div></div><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important" class="">ATTW-L mailing list</span><br style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class=""><a href="mailto:ATTW-L@attw.org" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank" class="">ATTW-L@attw.org</a><br style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class=""><a href="http://attw.org/mailman/listinfo/attw-l_attw.org" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank" class="">http://attw.org/mailman/listinfo/attw-l_attw.org</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class=""><br class="">ATTW-L mailing list<br class=""><br class=""><a href="mailto:ATTW-L@attw.org" target="_blank" class="">ATTW-L@attw.org</a><br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://attw.org/mailman/listinfo/attw-l_attw.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://attw.org/mailman/listinfo/attw-l_attw.org</a><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" class="">Ann M. 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