Lynne Cooke
 Associate Professor of Technical Communication

University of North Texas          

   
Office   Auditorium 316
Office hours Summer Session 1 : Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:30-5:30pm and by appointment
Office phone (940) 565-4386
Email cookel@unt.edu    
   
       
 

Spring 2007 Classes

  

Engl 2700: Technical Writing, Syllabus

Engl 4250: Manuals and Procedures, Syllabus

 

 

Other Links

  

English Department 

University of North Texas

 
  Education   2001 Ph.D., Communication & Rhetoric, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1994 M.A., English, San Diego State University
1994 Certificate in Technical Communication, San Diego State University
1989 B.A. Public Administration, San Diego State University
 

Publications

 

  

Articles

Cooke, Lynne "Eye Tracking: How it Works and How it Relates to Usability" Technical Communication 52.4 (2005): 456-463.

Cooke, Lynne and Sue Mings. "Connecting Usability Education and Research With Industry Needs and Practices." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 48.3 (2005): 296-312.

Cooke, Lynne. "A Visual Convergence of Print, Television, and the Internet: Charting Forty Years of Design Change in News Presentation." New Media & Society 7.1 (2005): 22-46.  

Cooke, Lynne and Sean Williams. "Two Approaches to Using Client Projects in the College Classroom." Business Communication Quarterly 67.2 (2004): 139-152. 

Cooke, Lynne. "Information Acceleration and the Evolution of Visual Trends Within a Media Context." Technical Communication Quarterly 12.2 (2003): 155-181  

Conference Proceedings

Cooke, Lynne. "Is Eye Tracking the Next Step in Usability Testing?" Proceedings of the International Professional Communication Conference. October 2006.     

Cooke, Lynne. "Is the Mouse a 'Poor Man's Eye Tracker?'" Society for Technical Communication Conference. May 2006.   

Cooke, Lynne and Elisabeth Cuddihy. "Using Eye Tracking to Address Limitations in Think-Aloud Protocol." Proceedings of the International Professional Communication Conference. July 2005: 653-658.   

Cooke, Lynne. "Improving Usability Through Eye Tracking Research." Proceedings of the International Professional Communication Conference. September 2004: 195-198.  

Cooke, Lynne and Sean Williams. "Bringing Real-World Projects Into the College Classroom." Proceedings of the Society for Technical Communication Conference, May 2003.

Cooke, Lynne. "What We Can Learn About Document Design From a Study of the Visual Convergence of the News Media." Proceedings of the Society for Technical Communication Conference, May 2002.

 
 

Professional Experience

  

Consultant /Project Manager for Taylor MarketMedia (Newport Beach, CA), Footstar Corporation (Dallas, TX), and IBM (Dallas, TX), AceBIT (Reinheim, Germany), Wisconsin Center for Educational Research (Madison, WI)

Technical Writer/Web Developer, General Electric Plastics, Selkirk, NY

Project Manager, Communication Institute for Online Scholarship, Troy, NY

Web Developer, Naval Research & Development Division, San Diego, CA

Test Evaluator, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ

Technical Writer, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

 

  Teaching    University of North Texas, Assistant Professor, 2001 to present 
     

English 5190: Usability Research, Test Methods, and Principles (Graduate)

English 5180: Visual Communication (Graduate)

English 5190: Online Help Development (Graduate)
English 5285: The Theory and Practice of Technical Presentations (Graduate)
English 4190: Technical Editing
English 4180: Advanced Technical Writing
English 4250: Writing Procedures and Manuals 

English 2700: Introduction to Technical Writing

 

      Western Kentucky University, Visiting Lecturer, 1999-2001
     
Communication 405: Advanced Public Speaking
English 330: Technical and Professional Writing
Communication 161: Business and Professional Speaking
Communication 145: Introduction to Public Speaking  
       
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Graduate Teaching Assistant , 1995-1999
      Communication 4180: Studio Design in Human-Computer Interaction
Writing 4120: Technical and Professional Writing
Writing 2410: Technical Presentations
Writing 2110: Rhetoric and Writing
 

  updated 06/04/2007 by cookel@unt.edu