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David Harrill Roberts David Harrill Roberts is a university professor, linguist, and education innovator who grew up in Bradenton, Florida, and Norwich, NY, currently semi-retired and living in Athens, Georgia.

He is the author of several books and monographs, including A Guide to Computer-Aided Writing Instruction, published in 1989 by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, one of the first books published on using computers to teach writing. Innovative computer-aided-writing software he produced in the late 1980's and early 1990's was published by McGraw-Hill, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, St. Martin's Press, Research Design Associates, and Time-Warner. The software, among the first of its type designed specifically for teaching writing on computers, received wide-spread notice in academic and scholarly circles.

While working as a field linguist in Luanshya, Zambia, he wrote two monographs, aides to American missionaries learning Bantu languages, published by the Baptist Missions of Zambia and Malawi. He collaborated with computer programmers of the Zambia National Mining Company on computer analysis of Swahili as a precursor to machine translation in the early seventies.

He has worked as a college professor, field linguist, corporate production planner, and part time pastor of four Baptist churches and two United Methodist churches in a career spanning five decades. He retired from his post as Professor of Rhetoric and Linguists at Samford University before serving United Methodist churches in Georgia and, most recently, joining the University of Georgia's English department as adjunct faculty.