PUBLICATIONS

Books

Applen, J.D., and Rudy McDaniel.The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments. New York: Routledge, 2009.

Refereed Articles and Book Chapters

""The Effects and Dynamics of Networks, Texting, and Power Relationships on the Construction of Identity." Post Identity. April, 2004.

"Tacit Knowledge, Knowledge Management, and Active User Participation in Web Site Navigation." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. Piscataway: NJ. December, 2002.

"Technical Communication, Knowledge Management, and XML." Technical Communication. Arlington, VA. August 2002. 301-313.

"Disease Classification and the Organization of Large-Scale Web Sites." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. Piscataway, NJ. December, 2001. 286-290.

"Extensible Mark-up Languages and the Remediation of Abstracting and Indexing Strategies." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. Piscataway, NJ. September, 2001. 202-206.

"Encountering Hypertext Technology: Student Engineers Analyze and Construct Web Pages." Weaving a Virtual Web: Practical Approaches to New Information Technologies. Ed. Sibylle Gruber. NCTE. Fall 1999. 14-24.

"Examining the Discourse of the University: The Use of Don DeLillo's White Noise in the Composition Classroom." Miss Grundy Doesn't Teach Here Anymore: How Popular Culture Has Changed the Composition Studies Classroom. Ed. Diane Penrod. Portsmouth: Heineman-Boynton/Cook. Fall, 1997. 136-146.

"Understanding the Text of America from the Sixties to the Nineties." North Carolina English Teacher. Summer, 1997. 2-9. (a regional publication)

Proceedings

"Studies in Hypertext: the Conversion of Traditional Texts into Web Sites." 46th Society for Technical Communication Conference Proceedings. May, 1999.

"Engineering for the Disabled: Using Design RFPs and Design Proposals for the Needs of the Physically Challenged." 45th Society for Technical Communication Conference Proceedings. May, 1998.

Textbooks

Co-editor. A Student's Guide to First-Year Composition, Thirteenth Edition, (with Barbara Jensen and Gerri McNenny), Burgess Press, 1992 (287 pages); Fourteenth Edition (with Gerri McNenny and D.R. Ransdell), Burgess Press, 1993 (375 pages). Compiled the English 102 half of the Guide for the Composition Program at the University of Arizona. Worked with the Director of Composition to establish the structure and purpose of English 102 (Writing about Literature), wrote assignment descriptions and developed heuristic schemes, collaborated with other graduate assistants to procure model student essays and develop new teaching ideas.

Co-editor. A Teacher's Guide to Composition, (with Barbara Jensen and Gerri McNenny, 1992; with Gerri McNenny and D.R. Ransdell, 1993), In-house Publication, Composition Program, University of Arizona. Presented program, department, and university policies; compiled composition course descriptions, teaching ideas and suggestions, and information for graduate students.

Fiction

"Bushido" (short story) in Cottonwood. University of Kansas, Lawrence. Fall, 1992.

"No One is Watching" (short story) in Webgeist. Summer, 1996.