Carolyn Miller | |
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Born | April 29, 1945 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Known for | Rhetorical genre studies |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Doctoral advisor | S. Michael Halloran |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Genre studies, Technical Communication |
Institutions | North Carolina State University |
Carolyn Rae Miller (born 1945 in Boston, MA) is SAS Institute Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication Emerita at North Carolina State University.[1] In 2006 she won the Rigo Award for Lifetime Achievement in Communication Design from the ACM-SIGDOC (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group in Design of Communication)[2] and in 2016 the Cheryl Geisler Award for Outstanding Mentor, the Rhetoric Society of America.[3] She is a Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (1995)[4] and of the Rhetoric Society of America (2010).[5] Her “groundbreaking and influential article”[6] on “Genre as Social Action” is foundational for Rhetorical Genre Studies. Three of her articles have been identified as essential works in Technical Communication.[7]