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= Carolyn R. Miller = Carolyn Miller is a researcher in the field of composition, rhetoric, and communication. Her work specializes in the area of genre studies, professional and technical writing, and the rhetoric of science and technology.

Education
Miller graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Honors. The following year, she remained at the institution and completed her masters in English.

In 1980, she completed her doctorate in Communication and Rhetoric at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Academic Work
In 1973, Miller started working an instructor at North Carolina State University. During her time at NC State, she introduced the university's first courses for a Master of Arts program in Rhetoric and Composition in 1984. She also founded the university's Master of Science program in Technical Communication in 1988 and the doctorate program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media in 2005, for which she served as director of both programs. She remained a member of the faculty as SAS Institute Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication until her retirement in 2015, and still serves as an emeritus professor.

Professional Service
Miller served as president as of the Rhetoric Society of America, as well as the editor of the Rhetoric Society Quarterly, from 2008-2011.

"Genre as Social Action"
In May of 1984, the Quarterly Journal of Speech published Miller's article, "Genre as Social Action." The article's concept originated from her dissertation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute under the direction of S. Michael Halloran. Miller said this article was her attempt at, "pushing back a bit against composition theorists in the modes tradition, which I had become convinced by that point was a particularly arhetorical and unproductive approach to understanding discourse and the teaching of discourse." Throughout the rest of the decade to the present day, her article would come to be one of the most influential texts in multidiscipline rhetoric and communication and the study of genres.

In June 2015, Letras & Letras published "Genre as Social Action (1984), Revisited 30 Years Later (2014)" a follow-up piece from Miller that examined how far the research of genre studies had come in the past three decades.

Publications

 * "Ionizing Radiation: Effect of Irradiated Medium on Synthetic Processes" (1965; written with Ernest C. Pollard, Marlin J. Ebert, Kathryn Kolacz, and Thomas F. Barone)
 * "Technology as a form of consciousness: A study of contemporary ethos" (1978)
 * "A Humanistic Rationale for Technical Writing" (1979)
 * "Vocationalism and Vision in Writing Courses" (1980)
 * "Rules, Context, and Technical Communication" (1980)
 * "Carolyn Miller Responds" (1980)
 * "Public Knowledge in Science and Society" (1982)
 * "Genre as Social Action" (1984)
 * "Discourse classifications in nineteenth-century rhetorical pedagogy" (1986)
 * "Aristotle's 'Special Topics' in Rhetorical Practice and Pedagogy" (1987)
 * "The Rhetoric of Decision Science: Or, Herbert A. Simon Says" (1990)
 * "Kairos in the Rhetoric of Science" (1990)
 * "The Polis as Rhetorical Community" (1993)
 * "Reading Darwin, Reading Nature: Or, On the Ethos of Historical Science" (1993)
 * "Opportunity, opportunism, and progress: Kairos in the rhetoric of technology" (1994)
 * "Learning from history: World War II and the culture of high technology" (1998)
 * "The Aristotelian Topos: Hunting for Novelty" (2000)
 * "Active and interactive learning online: A comparison of Web- based and conventional writing classes" (2000; written with Brad Mehlenbacher, David H. Covington, and J. S. Larsen)
 * "Rethinking the rhetorical tradition: From Plato to postmodernism [review]" (2001)
 * "Writing in a Culture of Simulation: Ethos Online" (2003)
 * "The presumptions of expertise: The role of ethos in risk analysis" (2003)
 * "Integrated Approaches to Teaching Rhetoric: Unifying a Divided House" (2003)
 * "Assessing Technical Writing in Institutional Contexts: Using Outcomes-Based Assessment for Programmatic Thinking" (2003; written with Michael Carter and Chris M. Anson)
 * "Expertise and Agency: Transformations of Ethos in Human-Computer Interaction" (2004)
 * "The rhetoric of RHETORIC: The quest for effective communication [review]" (2006)
 * "What Can Automation Tell Us about Agency?" (2007)
 * "Persuasion, Audience, and Argument" (2008)
 * "Questions for genre theory from the blogosphere" (2009)
 * "Should We Name the Tools? Concealing and Revealing the Art of Rhetoric" (2010)
 * "Foreword: Rhetoric, Technology, and the Pushmi-Pullyu" (2010)
 * "Digital Rhetoric and Science" (2010; written with Christian F. Casper)
 * "New Genres, Now and Then" (2012)
 * "Genre Change and Evolution" (2015)
 * "Genre as Social Action (1984), Revisited 30 Years Later (2014)" (2015)
 * "Genre Innovation: Evolution, Emergence, or Something Else?" (2016)
 * "Discourse Genres" (2016; written with Ashley R. Kelly)
 * "Emerging Genres in New Media Environments" (2017; written with Ashley R. Kelly)
 * "Counterpoint: The Appeal(s) of Latour" (2017; written with Lynda Walsh, Nathaniel A. Rivers, Jenny Rice, Laurie E. Gries, Jennifer L. Bay, and Thomas Rickert)
 * "Genre in Ancient and Networked Media" (2018)
 * "Genre: Permanence and Change" (2018; written with Amy J. Devitt and Victoria J. Gallagher)
 * "'Tree Thinking': The Rhetoric of Tree Diagrams in Biological Thought" (2020; written with Molly Hartzog)