Carolyn Miller

Carolyn Miller
Carolyn Miller in 2022
BornApril 29, 1945
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Known forRhetorical genre studies
Academic background
Alma materRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Doctoral advisorS. Michael Halloran
Academic work
DisciplineGenre studies, Technical Communication
InstitutionsNorth 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]

  1. ^ "Carolyn Miller". North Carolina State University - College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
  2. ^ "Rigo Award – ACM SIGDOC". sigdoc.acm.org. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  3. ^ "RSA | RSA Awards". www.rhetoricsociety.org.
  4. ^ "Minutes of the annual meeting of the ATTW". Technical Communication Quarterly. 4 (3): 343–351. 1995. doi:10.1080/10572259509364606. ISSN 1057-2252.
  5. ^ "RSA | RSA Fellows". associationdatabase.com. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
  6. ^ Bawarshi, A. S. & Reiff, M. J. (2010). Genre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, p. 62. ISBN 978-1-60235-170-7
  7. ^ Alred, G. J. (2003). Essential Works on Technical Communication. Technical Communication 50:4, 585–615.