Dr. Katherine T. Durack
Associate Professor • Technical & Scientific Communication
Dept. of English • Miami University • Oxford OH 45056
durackk@muohio.edu • (513) 529-2629

“Technology Transfer and Patents: Implications for the Production of Scientific Knowledge.” Technical Communication Quarterly, Summer 2006 15(3): 315-328.

“Tacit Knowledge in Patent Applications: Observations on the Value of Models to Early US Patent Office Practice and Potential Implications for the 21st Century.” World Patent Information, 2004 26: 131-136.

“Gender, Technology, and the History of Technical Communication.” Republished in Teaching Technical Communication: Critical Issues for the Classroom, ed. James Dubinsky, Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004. pp. 99-109.

“Gender, Technology, and the History of Technical Communication.” Republished with brief retrospective in Central Works in Technical Communication, ed. Stuart Selber and Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Oxford University Press, 2004. pp. 35-43.

“Instructions As Inventions: When the Patent Meets the Prose.” In Power and Legitimacy in Technical Communication: Vol. I The Historical and Contemporary Struggle for Professional Status. Ed. Teresa Kynell and Gerald Savage. Baywood, 2003. pp. 15-37.

“Fifty Years of Technical Communication.” Technical Communication, November 2003 50(4): 571-584.

“Observations on Entrepreneurship, Instructional Texts, and Personal Interaction." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 2003 33(2): 87-109.

“Research Opportunities in the U.S. Patent Record.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication. October 2001 15(4): 490-510. Nominated for the NCTE award for Best Article Reporting Historical Research or Textual Studies in Technical or Scientific Communication.

“It All Comes Out in the Wash: Persuasion in Technical Proposals. Nineteenth-Century Washing Machine Applications to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.” Journal of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals, Fall 1999 1(2): 37-44. Best Article 1999.

“Authority and Audience-Centered Writing Strategies: Sexism in 19th Century Sewing Machine Manuals.” Technical Communication, May 1998 45(2): 180-196.

“Gender, Technology, and the History of Technical Communication.” Technical Communication Quarterly, Summer 1997 6(3): 249-260. Outstanding Article 1997.

“Patterns for Success: A Lesson In Usable Design from U.S. Patent Records.” Technical Communication, February 1997 44(1): 37-51. Outstanding Article 1997.