# overview
I study rhetoric and argumentation, especially in legal and professional communication. I focus on rhetorical and argumentation theory in context and practice, using text-analytic, computational, and cognitive methods. Other research interests include the law of online contracts and empirical research methods.

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Legal Ethics And Professional Responsibility

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Gender, Race, Sexuality, And Ethnicity In Communication

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Hamline University - (Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States)

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University of Minnesota - (Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States)

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Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication

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University of Wisconsin - Madison - (Madison, Wisconsin, United States)

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Clicking Away Your Speech Rights: The Enforceability of Gagwrap Clauses

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The Structured Writing Group: A Different Writing Center?

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Gender/Genre: The Lack of Gendered Register in Texts Requiring Genre Knowledge

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Second Class for the Second Time: How the Commercial Speech Doctrine Stigmatizes Commercial Use of Aggregated Public Records

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Gender as a Variable in Natural-Language Processing: Ethical Considerations

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Reconceiving Argument Schemes as Descriptive and Practically Normative

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Use What You Choose: Applying Computational Methods to Genre Studies in Technical Communication

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Data privacy laws in the US protect profit but prevent sharing data for public good – people want the opposite

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Medico-Legal Collaboration Regarding the Sex Offender: Othering and Resistance

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Research and Rhetorical Purpose: Using Genre Analysis to Understand Source Use in Technical and Professional Writing

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LAW'S ENTERPRISE: ARGUMENTATION SCHEMES & LEGAL ANALOGY

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Bridging Rhetoric And Pragmatics With Relevance Theory

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Civil Procedure as a Critical Discussion

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Texas A&M University School of Law; 1515 Commerce St.; 