Dirk Remley
dremley@kent.edu
330-672-1763
PUBLICATIONS
Rhetoric and Composition/Business & Technical Communication
Books
Remley, D. (2018). The neuroscience of rhetoric in management: Compassionate executive communication. New York: Routledge.
Remley, D. (2017). Managerial communication and the brain: Applying neuroscience to leadership practices. New York: Business Expert Press
Remley, D. (2017). The neuroscience of multimodal persuasive messages: Persuading the brain. New York: Routledge. Nominated for Best Book in Scientific or Technical Communication, 2018 (NCTE/Conference on College Composition and Communication)
Remley, D. (2015). How the brain processes multimodal technical instructions. Amityville: Baywood. (2nd edition: New York: Routledge.) Nominated for Best Book in Scientific or Technical Communication, 2017 (NCTE/Conference on College Composition and Communication)
Remley, D. (2014). Exploding technical communication: Workplace literacy heirarchies and their implications for literacy sponsorship. Amityville: Baywood. (2nd edition: New York: Routledge.) Nominated for two book awards: Best Book in Technical and Scientific Communication, 2016 (NCTE/Conference on College Composition and Communication) and Distinguished Publication on Business Communication, 2015 (Association for Business Communication)
Print Publications
Remley, D. (2023). Multimodality. In Han Yu, & Jonathan Buehl (Eds.), Keywords in technical and professional communication. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. (pp 185-192). https://doi.org/10.37514/TPC-B.2023.1923.2.21
Lentz, P., Coffelt, T., Cardon, P., Cresap, L., Nelson, A., & Remley, D. (2020). An Analysis of the Academic Environment in Business and Professional Communication. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 83(4), 434–468. https://doi.org/10.1177/2329490620949862
Remley, D. (2017). Neural implications for narrative in multimodal persuasive messages. In Contemporary perspectives on cognition and writing. (pp. 135-151). Portinova, P., Rifenburg, M. & Roen, D. (eds.). Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado.
Remley, D. (2015). Balancing standardized Web-based pedagogy with instructor autonomy in technical writing courses. In The New Normal: Pressures on Technical Communication Programs in the Age of Austerity. Tillery, D. and Nagelhout, E. (Eds). pp. 125-138. Amityville: Baywood.
Remley, D. (2014). Writing in Web-based disciplinary courses: New media, new disciplinary composing expectations.Computers and Composition 32, 1-18.
Remley, D. (2013). Templated pedagogy: Factors affecting standardized writing pedagogy with online learning management systems. Writing & Pedagogy 5.1, 105-120.
Remley, D. (2012). Re-considering the range of reciprocity in community-based research and service learning: You don't have to be an activist to give back. Community Literacy Journal, 6.2, 115-132.
Garrison, A., Remley, D., Thomas, P., Wierszewski E. (2011). Conventional faces: Emoticons in instant messaging discourse. Computers and Composition, 28.,112-125.
Remley, D. (2010). Developing digital literacies in Second Life: Bringing Second Life to business writing pedagogy and corporate training. In Handbook of Research on Virtual Environments for Corporate Education: Employee Learning and Solutions. (pp. 169-193). William Ritke-Jones (Ed). Hershey: IGI Global.
Hewett, B.L., Robidoux, C. and Remley, D. (2010). Principles for exploring virtual collaborative writing. In Virtual collaborative writing in the workplace: Technologies and processes. (pp. 1-27). Hewett, B.L. and Robidoux, C. (Eds) Hershey: IGI Global.
Hewett, B.L., Remley, D., Zemliansky, P., and Dipardo, A. (2010). Frameworks for talking about collaborative writing. In Virtual collaborative writing in the workplace: Technologies and processes. (pp. 28-51). Hewett, B.L. and Robidoux, C. (Eds). Hershey: IGI Global.
Remley, D. (2009) Training Within Industry as short-sighted community literacy-appropriate training program: A case study of worker-centered training and its implications. Community Literacy Journal, 3.2, 93-114.
Online Publications
Remley, D. (2012). Forming assessment of machinima video. Computers and Composition Online (Invited).
Remley, D. (2011). The practice of assessing multimodal Powerpoint slide shows. Computers and Composition Online. http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/CCpptassess/index.html
Remley, D. (2010). Second Life literacies: Critiquing writing technologies of Second Life. Computers and Composition Online. http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/Remley/ (Web design by Erickson, J.)Remley, D. (2009, January 19). Intersectional computer-supported collaboration in business writing: Learning through challenged performance. [Special issue on Writing Technologies and Writing Across the Curriculum] Across the Disciplines, 6.
Conference Proceedings
Remley, D. (2014). Disciplining business writing: Hard decisions for “soft skills.” Association for Business Communication Conference Proceedings (Refereed).
Remley, D. (2010). Can you die?: On the relevance of SecondLife in business writing pedagogy. Association of Business Communication Conference Proceedings (Refereed).
Remley, D. (2008). A rhetorical tool and a link to composition: The appeals of narrative in professional writing. Association of Business Communication Conference Proceedings (Refereed).
Remley, D. (2007). Representing activity in distance, asynchronous computer-supported collaborative writing. Computers and Writing Online.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
over 40 presentations since 2001
Recent Refereed Presentations
Assessment of the Academic Environment in Business Communication. With Lentz, P., Coffelt, T., Cardon, P., Cresap, L., & Nelson, A. Association for Business Communication International Conference. Detroit, MI. 2019
Calling the brain to action: Neural attributes of multimodal persuasive messages. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Houston, TX. Spring 2016.
How the Colavita visual dominance effect can inform multimodal rhetorical theory. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Indianapolis, IN. Spring 2014.
Surveying the Disciplines: A Gateway to Program Assessment. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Spring 2012
Using Our Relationship with Print-based Rhetoric to Assess Second Life Machinima Video. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Spring 2011
Reconsidering reciprocity: You don't have to be an activist to give back. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Spring 2010
Implications of multimodal instruction on the visual culture: An historical case study. Conference on College Composition and Communication: Spring 2009.
Bringing Second Life to business writing pedagogy. Thomas R. Watson Conference: Fall 2008
Intersectional computer-supported collaboration in business writing: Learning through challenged performance. Computers and Writing Conference: Spring 2008
CMS’ threat to writing pedagogy: Standardization of pedagogy. Computers and Writing Conference: Spring 2008
MARKETING PUBLICATIONS
Remley, D. (1998).Pool resources for success. Nonprofit World, 16.5 (Sept/Oct, 1998). 42-45.
*Article was required reading for nationally offered “Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership and Management” certificate program, produced by The Learning Institute and sponsored by PBS Adult Learning Service and United Way of America. 2001
Remley, D. (1997). Two keys to successful grant proposals. Nonprofit World. 15.3 (May/June, 1997), 9
Remley, D. (1997). Using volunteers to avoid telemarketing rip-offs.Nonprofit World,15.2 (March/April, 1997), 12-15.
Remley, D. (1996). Relationship marketing: Guaranteeing the future. Nonprofit World (Sep/Oct, 1996), 14.5, 13-16.
* article cited in two scholarly publications in 2003 (one appeared in Journal of Marketing, and other in Journal of Marketing for Higher Education)
READER/REVIEWER FOR:
JOURNALS
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC): 2015
Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT): 2012
Computers and Composition Online: 2012
Assessing Writing: 2011
TEXTBOOK PUBLISHER:
Book proposals: Palgrave; Routledge
Gerson, Sharon and Steve Gerson (2008) Workplace Writing: Real People, Real Challenges. Pearson Longman's MyTechCommLab: 2006
Markel, M. (1996) Technical Communication (4th Edition). Bedford St. Martins
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Association of Business Communication Conference Proceedings: 2008
Some Philosophical Underpinnings for Communication: Western and Eastern Foundations as seen in Commonplace Principles by Herbert Hildebrandt, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and Yunxia Zhu,UQ Business School, University of Queensland
Identity and Cross-Cultural Communication, by Maurizio Gotti, Università di Bergamo
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research." Albert Einstein
Last updated August 20, 2023