On behalf of the Rhetoric and Composition faculty, I would like to congratulate our two Ph.D. students graduating today: Dr. Ann Marie Francis and Dr. Valerie Robin!

Dr. Francis recently defended her dissertation, “Composition Assignments with Workplace Relevance: An Examination of Technical Communication Coursework and the Reading and Writing Demands of Professional Engineers,” and worked with Dr. Lynee Gaillet (chair) and Drs. Ashley Holmes and George Pullman (readers).

Dr. Robin recently defended her dissertation, “The Value of Scholarly Writing: A Temporal-Material Rhetorical Analysis of Delivery in Google Documents,” and worked with Dr. Mary Hocks (chair) and Drs. Michael Harker and Ashley Holmes (readers).

Congratulations to our graduates!