Profile for Lindsay Steiner

Lindsay Steiner Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Associate Professor

English

Specialty area(s)

Professional & Technical Writing, Content Strategy/Writing, UX Writing, Usability & User Experience, Social Media Writing, Visual Rhetoric & Document Design, AI & Writing, Writing Technologies, Organizational & Nonprofit Writing, Grant Writing, Qualitative Research, Course-Embedded Community Engagement Projects, Internships, Career Readiness, and Collaborative Learning.

Brief biography

As Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, I am actively engaged in teaching, research, and service. I teach courses in professional & technical writing, writing & rhetoric studies, and first-year writing. My research interests focus on web content writing & UX writing, usability and UX, scholarship of teaching and learning, and writing technologies/writing with AI.

Current courses at UWL

Fall 2024:

ENG 310: Digital Content Writing, Strategy, & Experience Design

Non-teaching reassignment:

CASSH/VPA Faculty Fellow: Communication, Public Relations, & Event Planning

Education

Ph.D. in Literacy, Rhetoric, and Social Practice, Kent State University (2013)
M.A. in Rhetoric and Composition, Kent State University (2009)
B.S. in Visual Communication, Ohio University (2003)

Career

Teaching history

College Writing I (ENG 110)
Writing for Management, Public Relations, & the Professions (ENG 307)
Technical Writing (ENG 308)
Digital Content Writing, Management, & Experience Design (ENG 310)
Grant Writing (ENG 314)
Publishing in a Digital Age (ENG 327)
Introduction to Professional Writing (ENG 335)
Professional Writing Practicum (ENG 452)
Seminar in Rhetoric & Writing Studies (ENG 497)
Study Abroad Faculty-Led Program, Galway, Ireland Summer 2016 (ENG 307)
Visiting instructor and scholar (summer 2017), South Central University for Nationalities (Wuhan, China), Guangxi Normal University (Guangxi, China), and Beijing Information Science and Technology University (Beijing, China)

Professional history

Professional Memberships

Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication
Global Society of Online Literacy Educators
Society for Technical Communication

Research and publishing

Publications

Kopp, B., McCracken, C., Steiner, L., & Zamparutti, L. (2024). Rhetorical prompt engineering. In C. Schnitzler, A. Vee, & T. Laquintano (Eds.), TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments. WAC Clearinghouse.

Steiner, L. (2024). Steiner on Baron. [Review of the book Who Wrote This? How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing, by N. S. Baron]. H-Sci-Med-Tech, https://networks.h-net.org/group/reviews/20024439/steiner-baron-who-wrote-how-ai-and-lure-efficiency-threaten-human-writing

Steiner, L., Kopp, B., & Parker, K. (2022). From awareness to advocacy: Using intimate partner violence awareness campaigns to teach user advocacy and empathy in a trauma-informed technical communication course. Reflections, 22(1), 345-372.

Parker, K., Kopp, B., & Steiner, L. (2021). "Side by Side with a Ruinous, Ever-Present Past": Trauma-Informed Teaching and the Eighteenth Century, Clarissa, and Fantomina. ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830.

Steiner, L., McCracken, M., & Moeller, M. (2021). The minor is major: An adhocratic, relationship-based view of TPC Curriculum and Curriculum Revision. Programmatic Perspectives.

Steiner, L. (2019). Teaching content strategy to undergraduate students with real clients. In G. Getto, J. Labriola, & S. Ruszkiewicz (Eds.), Content Strategy in Technical Communication. ATTW Book Series. London: Routledge.

Steiner, L. (2016). Enacting professional literate practice: A snapshot of one professional graphic designer's process. In P. Thomas & P. Takayoshi (Eds.), Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public, and Working Lives. London: Routledge.

L. Steiner (Dec. 2018). Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Bibliography 2017. Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.

Conference Presentations

Recent presentations TBA.

"Designing, Implementing, and Troubleshooting Interdisciplinary Professional and Technical Writing Courses" at the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication Conference, October 2019

"Building Sexual Assault Awareness and Advocacy into the Professional and Technical Writing Curriculum" at UWL Social Justice Week, April 2019

"Accountability Strategies in Higher Education Web Content: The University of Wisconsin System’s 2020FWD Strategic Framework, Accountability Dashboard, and the Wisconsin Idea" at the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference, March 2019

"Certificate Programs and Sustainable Technical and Professional Communication" at the Conference for The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Oct. 2018

"Visualizing 1916: A Case Study in Teaching Professional Writing in Ireland" at the American Conference for Irish Studies, June 2018 (Cork, Ireland)

"PTW Threshold Concepts as Relationship-Building Advocacy for PTW Programs: A Case Study” at the Conference for The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Oct. 2017

“Study Abroad as a Viable Location for Teaching Digital Professional Writing” (part of the "Engaging the Global: Challenges and Practices of the Digital in Transnational Writing" workshop) at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2017

“PTW Threshold Concepts as Relationship-Building Advocacy for PTW Programs: A Case Study” at the Conference for The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Oct. 2016 (paper accepted; conference canceled due to hurricane)

"Values in a Professional and Technical Writing Minor: Use-Value Above and Beyond Service" at the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference, March 2015

"Designing Multiliteracies: How Four Professional Graphic Designers Make Decisions" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2015

“Playing the Hand You Are Dealt: Revising and Re-shaping a Pre-Existing Professional Writing Minor” at the Conference for The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Sept. 2014

"The Mechanization of Arrangement: Repositioning a Classical Rhetorical Canon for Contemporary Composing Situations" at the Computers & Writing Conference, May 2013

"Sharing, Commenting, and Collaborating through Google Docs" at the 6th Annual Northeast Ohio Writing Centers Association Conference, October 2012

"Composers' Decisions in One Creative Process at an In-House Marketing Firm" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2012

"Designing Visual Rhetoric: Articulating Argument through Document Design" at the Writing Research Across Borders II Conference, February 2011

"Crafting Identity: Ethos in 140 Characters" at the Computers and Writing Conference, May 2010