{"id":56,"date":"2017-01-07T20:35:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T20:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2017-01-07T20:38:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T20:38:16","slug":"about-lisa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/course-policies\/contact-lisa\/about-lisa\/","title":{"rendered":"About Lisa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So who the heck am I and what makes me qualified to help you learn about information design?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hmmmm\u2026.well, for starters, I was, and still am, a professional technical communicator. I spent years practicing the art and craft of techcomm (my abbreviation for the field) in a variety of workplace settings. I also spent quite a few years as a consultant and it was during those years that I learned the importance of design AND being able to display data. That means, I have a whole lot of experience so I\u2019m not asking you to do anything in class that you won\u2019t be asked to do in the workplace.<\/p>\n

Beyond my practical, hands-on, words in the trenches experience, I spent a few years in school learning theories of writing. After a sufficient amount of time reading and writing, the powers that be at the University of South Carolina<\/a> decided to award me a doctoral degree in Rhetoric with a specialization in technical communication.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the short version. Throughout the term, you\u2019ll learn and hear more anecdotes about my varied experiences as a consultant. Feel free to ask questions at any time. I have a complete open question policy. You can ask pretty much anything and I\u2019ll give the most direct answer I can. If I don\u2019t know the answer, I\u2019ll find it out for you.<\/p>\n

\"tree\"<\/a>As far as who I am? My last name says a lot about me: I\u2019m Cajun. I grew up on the border of Texas and Louisiana not far from the Gulf Coast, the youngest child of a working class family. I have a big, boisterous, straight talking, story telling, eating, drinking, laughing, crying, Catholic family. All of those things have marked me in significant ways and directly impact who I am and how I teach. And we like to watch the tree grow.<\/p>\n

As a tenured faculty member, I am expected to do research and make a contribution to the academic field.<\/p>\n

I live across the border in Kentucky so I can still tell people that I live in the South. I am slightly sports obsessed, which means in my spare time I am often watching sports on TV or streaming some game on the Internet.<\/p>\n

An interesting factoid that most people don\u2019t know about me is that I collect limited editions of Dr. Martens<\/a>. You might see a pair or two this term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So who the heck am I and what makes me qualified to help you learn about information design? Hmmmm\u2026.well, for starters, I was, and still am, a professional technical communicator. I spent years practicing the art and craft of techcomm (my abbreviation for the field) in a variety of workplace settings. I also spent quite … <\/p>\n

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