Author: Jill Fennell

Jill Fennell is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech, where she teaches LMC 3403: Business Communication. Her work has been published in the Eudora Welty Review, Arkansas Review, and is forthcoming in the Journal of Appalachian Studies. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in 2019.

Students, not Consumers: Rethinking Our Assignment Sheet Design, part 2

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By Jill Fennell and Jeffrey Howard (Continued from Part 1) Technical Communication and Information Design Techniques in Assignment Design Extant scholarship on technical communication, information design, and user experience design (UX) provides many ideas that instructors can implement to enhance the effectiveness and expand the purpose and usability of assignment… Continue reading

Students, not Consumers: Rethinking Our Assignment Sheet Design, part 1

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By Jill Fennell and Jeffrey Howard “We build the corral as we reinvent the horse.” ~ Stephen Dunn, “A Little Essay on Form” Introduction In his “Little Essay on Form,” noted writer Stephen Dunn argues that even when writers work within the constraints of generic conventions, they also can reshape… Continue reading