Lynda Walsh


BA (English, Colorado College), MA (Linguistics, UT Austin), PhD (English Language/Linguistics; Rhetoric/Composition, UT Austin)
Assistant Professor

Specializations:
Rhetoric of science, argumentation, pragmatics 

Select Publications:

“Constructive Interference: Service Learning and Wikis Make Waves in the Technical Writing Classroom,” forthcoming in Technical Communication Quarterly, April 2010.

“The Common Topoi of STEM Discourse: An Apologia and Proposal for a Method, with Pilot Study,” forthcoming in Written Communication 27.1 (2010).

“Marking Territory: Legislative Genres, Stakeholder Beliefs, and Possibilities for Common Ground in the Mexican Wolf Blue Range Reintroduction Project,” Written Communication 26.2 (2009): 115-153.

Walsh, Lynda. Sins Against Science: The Scientific Media Hoaxes of Poe, Twain, and Others. Albany: SUNY Press, September 2006.

Secor, Marie, and Lynda Walsh. “A Rhetorical Perspective on the Sokal Hoax: Genre, Style, and Context,” Written Communication 21:1 (January 2004): 69-91.

Walsh, Lynda. “The Rhetoric of Oracles,” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 33:3 (Summer 2003): 55-78.

Contact:
Email: lwalsh-at-unr-dot-edu